Day 1: A Late One, both start and finish

Its Saturday in the city which means market day and hanging in Central Park in the sun watching some baseball (NY Law School vrs some dodgy Brooklyn Team) and eating soft super large pretzels. Cheesy filled Pretzels at that!

Our wander along Broadway back into town leads us thru market day where Brooklyn Ave is closed to traffic. Thousands of people and so so so much food. Favourite of the day are the toffee strawberries - just like toffee apples but you get heaps more toffee for the same amount of fruit. Droooool.

Horror of all horrors, I have found myself in NYC without a hair drier so off it is to Macy's (my new favourite store) to purchase the all important cant live without it piece of equipment. But alas, after being dragged thru the 4 Men's ecko sections, plus ecko for chics (which is all itty bitty tight clothes leading me to question this designer that Scott loves so much) I am told we must head to the basement. Down the original rickety wooden escalator I enter 'Heaven'. An entire floor devoted to kitchen equipment where I am left pondering if buying a KitchenAid mixer in the US is excessive. That question is yet to be answered.

Last stop in Macy's was the Fur Vault - just one I have my eye on, a mink half length for the low low sum of $4550. Good news is that its 60% off and being a non New Yorker, I get a further 11% off! Bargain! We leave Macy's without the mink coat and hair drier - they don't stock them, but I am happy that I found heaven is actually downstairs.

The night holds an evening with Carl Craig and after much discussion we decide to Subway then cab it. For future reference, all the cabs are in Manhattan and those that are cruising around don't know where anything in Brooklyn is. Problem solved though - ask the limo driver who is at the gas station. Thank goodness for the wee NZ gem called Navman, we have directions (no limo though) and we were on our way.....finally, its now 1.15am

A great night with some great tunes. A new fav for me is a Depech mode remix. Mr Craig completely mixed it up moving from soulful relaxing tunes to full electronic hard fast beats. Read more at Scott's blog: http://www.resistconformity.com/ We had loads of fun and got home easily as we stole someone elses ordered taxi.

Bed time as its now 5.30am, No! I'm wide awake so head out for a run to Central Park. The city is so, I was going to say quiet, but its not, its just lacking people at this hour. Its cool, clear and a different place all together. There are squirrels and dero's sharing Central Park along with a few crazy runners. The sun rising onto the old buildings is a beautiful site and I head home even more awake than before the run.