Hello Ladies and gentlemen,
here is day 3 of my new york adventure!
last i left you with an action packed day of shopping and eating. well, don’t despair, we have more of much the same! whoo hoo! so, the following morning we took my favourite ferry, and had some time for some pictures on the way to catch it.
here is the area we were staying in in new jersey
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and our friendly neighbourhood ferry terminal
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whilst there we had some time for some group pictures
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pictures with the family
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and these cute towels were in the store!
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and another hazy picture of NYC, except with 600% more ducks this time.
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and then, I’m looking up, and what do i spot. its a shadow of an airplane. but not any shadow. the shadow is in the the shape of none other than a B17-G, i do believe. ohh my ohh my. sadly, i can’t hear the rumble of the 4 Pratt and Whitney Radial engines. i pointed excitedly at noa, and cursed not having a second camera body with my telephoto lens that i also did not have on me.
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this is what a very poor zoomed in version looks like
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what an airplane. its not like i haven’t seen them before, you see them every once in a while in arizona, i just wasn’t expecting. it. that made my day. now back to the city.
so we disembark, and start walking. i see this really cool looking wall.
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and then we stumbled upon a flea market, which was really cool. look at all these old typography stamps. karen would of loved it!
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and this window was great
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and for some reason I’ve been into signs these days.
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the New Yorker building
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and the empire state building
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so then, noa’s dad and i lost a little over 2h in B&H photo. if you have never been, its a magical experience. imagine every gadget, camera, tripod and accessory, all in one store. now packed with a whole crap load of people, and overhead rail tracks with boxes zipping around. its fantastic. anyways, i was looking for a camera bag, and finally settled on one. eventually, we stumbled out of there, starving.
so we went to find the ladies, and we made our way to one of the places on our list. its called Eataly, and its owned by Mario Batali. what a place. after seeing b&h, this place wasn’t much better. imagine a high end grocery store, like whole foods. now add 5 restaurants inside, that cook with the ingredients sold there. wow, what an amazing place. we had a pizza there, that was pretty damn good. i also had one of my favourite beers, dogfish head 90 minute ipa. lets see some pictures from inside.
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i was mesmerized by watching them make fresh pasta
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and of course, we had some sweets. a cute little tiramisu, and some gelato.
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from there, we walked about some more, and i got a few more pictures
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and finally, we took the ferry back in the afternoon. we had dinner plans with some family that evening, so we had to head back somewhat early in order to make it.
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I had found a local liquor store the previous days, and this beer stood out. its NJ local, had an awesome name, and touted to be hoppy! well, it was hoppy, a little more bitter than i like, but super delicious either way. i brought some to dinner with me, as i did not have a lot of time to finish them on my trip. very creative bottles and names, i enjoyed it very much. hop-a-lot-amus. so fun to say.
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that evening we ate delicious steaks, and some fruit salad, which our host assured me tasted better with Kirch liquor. I’m not sure if it improved it, but it certainly made it interesting. overall, it was an excellent end to a night and another great day.
just one more day left for me, on the grand new york adventure.