Yankee Stadium!

Someone had free tickets to a New York Yankees baseball game and invited me to go! I'm not much of a baseball fan, but this is sort of a big deal if you know anything about professional sports. The New York Yankees is one of the most successful sports franchises in the world and like any other city, the culture of New York is steeped closely with its sports teams. This infamous stadium was a real treat. The baseball game ended up to be a pretty good one too. it was tied 2-2 going into the bottom of the 9th inning, and New York hit a homerun to win the game! the stadium was just crazy. so here are some pics of my little adventure into the heart of the Bronx.


The road into Yankee stadium



The view of the buildings just outside of Yankee Stadium



Mmm...fresh pretzels and lemonade. Actually thats all this was good for - the eyes. Like any other sporting event, the food is extremely overpriced and never that good.



My ticket to the game. if you'll notice, the price of the ticket of $5! I was pretty shocked by the price. I mean thats how much the stupid lemonade cost me! Its nice to know that in this day and age, the average family can still afford to take their kids to a professional ball game....in one of the most expensive cities in the world! I know in Vancouver, you'd never be able to see a Canucks game for $5. and i think the cheapest football ticket i ever paid for was like $15.



Let's play ball!



So there's thing here called Dippin Dots. I've never heard of it before, but apparently its ice cream pellets and they are sold in regular ice cream freezers. there's a whole bunch of flavours that you can get, and i guess the key is that it must be WAY easier to scoop a bunch of dry pellets than it does to scoop the real stuff. has anyone else heard of this before? cos i felt like an alien looking into my cup. Man, and white folk give asian people a hard time for bubble tea!?!? this is definitely qualifies to be JUST AS WEIRD.



My dippin dots was served in a yankees baseball cap. and it tasted pretty good - just like ice cream really, just packaged differently!



so yeah, that was yet another cool adventure into the city! hopefully there will be more to come...

Ground Zero

On Saturday, I plucked up the courage to venture into the city alone. I know, I know, its not like its scary or anything, but its always nice to go with people who know their way around. You get to enjoy the experience more as opposed to always being worried that you would get lost in this humunguous (wow i don't think i've ever typed that word out before - it looks weird) city!

Anyway, i figured it would be a bad plan to just wait for people to offer to take me, so I took advantage of my day off, and booted off to the city. One of the first things i wanted to see was Ground Zero. Wow...i was pretty speechless, I didn't really know what to expect really, but it was just a really interesting experience just imagining firstly what the two towers would look like, instead of this big open space and then more disturbingly what these two giant towers would look like crumpled to the ground. I didn't know this but a few other building went down with the WTC towers, so this pic is whats left of the area.



this is what it looks like through the big 20 foot fences they have up




After ground zero, i walked over to Battery Park and there was a live concert/dance thing going on. these guys were doing some kind of hip hop music and dancing to it as well but also combining it with like crazy gymnastics and flexibility. pretty crazy stuff. but it was so cool. just the kind of thing you find in this city