Day in Central Park

Last night I stayed with Aunt Margaret in Manhattan and tonight I'll be in Chelsea crashing with Josh. I met up with Josh yesterday and we grabbed a bite to eat and walked around the City (and he showed me Google's NYC office...woooow). Today was wandering around Central Park all day. I was bummed because apparently the Metropolitan Museum of Art isn't open on Mondays. So I had wandered the park going in the general direction until I found it...and it was closed...bummer. Aside from that, Central Park is amazing. Absoluetly gorgeous. Nothing like Golden Gate Park. Sunny. Clean. Classic. I took my time and enjoyed my stroll.

Anyways, I gotta get back soon to grab some dinner with Josh so I jump into a cab and ask to take me down 55th Street to pick up my stuff. The cabbie finds out I'm from California and starts giving me a grand tour of the city pointing out this and that. He goes down 5th Avenue and points out the Rockafeller Center. I wait for him to pause and tell him that I'm interested in seeing it and I'll get out here. Ha! He makes a comment about this is what he gets for pointing things out. I'm like whatever dude and tell him that he passed 55th Street a few blocks back. C'mon, do I look like I'm a stupid traveler wanting to get ripped off by a cabbie. I don't think so. Anyways, my advice...watch out for them cabbies!

Thinking might as well, I walk through the Rockafeller Plaza, into a few buildings, through the outdoor setup viewing of the US Open, down and into Trump Tower, and then walk up to 55th to flag down another cabbie. There's a guy across the street to is whistling (as if to call a cabbie) and after a few of them I turn to look at him...mostly out of annoyance. Turns out he's whislting at me and he tells me to come over to his side of the street so he can call a cab for me. Turns out he's a doorman at this nice hotel I'm standing across the street from. Alright. I walk over and he tells some little man to go get a cab and this tiny man runs off with a real whistle down to the intersection waving his hands wildly. Haha if that's how you catch a cab I sure wasn't going to be getting one any time soon where I was lol. This doorman starts talking to me and he's nice enough. As he opened up the door of the cab, he told me to come back and check out the bar here, describing it to me. It sounded real nice. And it's got a view...very nice. Course then he had to finish his talk off with "Well bring your friends back to come check it out, that way I can see you again" with a little wink on the end. LOL. Okay no go. More of because I don't have time anyways. And who would I bring with me? Lol.