lørdag 18. april 2009

New York!! :)

So, Heine was one of Kristoffers seminar teachers at philosophy a long time ago, and he and his girlfriend, Trine, welcomed us to New York with open hearts and a warm livingroom! (Despite the fact that Heine didn´t quite place Kristoffer right in his memory till the last night we were there.. Amazing people!!) The first night at their place we sat up till half past 2, none of us knowing the time, talking:) The next morning they went to school, and K and I went to take over New York (was even my birthday, nice day for that!) Started the day with New York bagels, mmmmm, walk all the way from 30th street to Wall street, saw quite a lot of different districts and sensed the tense feelings at Wall Street. Took the ferry over to Staten Island to see the Statue of Liberty on the way. Took the ferry back, and took even more pictures of Statue of Liberty. Metro to Brooklyn, saw Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Skyline and Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn, beautiful!! Walked Brooklyn Bridge, wow wow wow. Took Metro to Central Grand Station, wow wow wow, walked to Empire Sate Building, was approx 1 1/5 hour queue to get up, so we walked back to Rockefeller Center, paid and went up to 70th floor, and saw the city by night.. Wow wow wow.. Went down again after a few hours, and went to Times Square, to see it by night, amazing. Went home to Heine and Trine, exhausted!
Tuesday we didn´t have quite the same speed, but walked a lot in Greenwich village, Soho, Noho, Meatpacking District and so on. Quite a lot of shopping(spend the rest of our money and a little bit more, or what K?) Tired after mondays walking, tired after Tuesdays walking, we slept very well that night! Wednesday we got up at 8, had bagels for breakfast with Heine and Trine, and then we moved to Harlem, to couchsurf! Stayed with Nathan and Rachel, nice people! Spent the day just me and K, saw most of Central Park, Guggenheim(just the outside, the lobby and the cafè, hehe) and the International Center for Photography, and more of Downtown. Went home to Harlem, Nathan had cooked for us, so we brought New York Cheesecake for dessert, mhmhm! Went to a jazzplace and had a Manhattan on Manhattan, hehehe!
Thursday was our last day in New York, but it was sunny(the rest of the days were not!), so we went back to Central Park to get some sunny pictures, more shopping in Greenwich Village and then we packed our bags and left Harlem and New York and went to JFK. The flight went well, but we didn´t sleep at all, almost, because ther was a personal screen and lot of movies and tvshows, yeah!
Arrived in Dublin(amazingly cold!!!!!!) at 5 in the morning, spent some time at the airport, then went to town, sat in 2 different cafés and slept because of jetlag. Decided to go back to the airport without seeing much of Dublin, next time, to tired, went back to the airport and checked our luggage, ate and flew to Torp, Norway, slept almost the entire way, but saw Hardangervidda with snow from above, Norway is beautiful too, I have to say!!! Arrived on time, immigration and customs was really quick, and then WE WERE BACK!!!!!! Mamma, pappa, Britta, Janjan, Halvard, Marita and Oda Sofie met us, and had made us a picnic in the cafeteria with norwegian milk, brown cheese and knekkebrød, mmmmmmm!!!
Then we left, K to his mothers house, and I to my parents house, and this is so weeeeird, being home, but really great too!!!!!!! PUH!!!!g

1 kommentar:

Jostein sa...

Welcome back ! You bouth! I guess you have a lot to talk about now he he...as you have seen, discovered and felt so much places and so much mystery and greatnes and stuff thise globe and it's inhabitans has to offer..
On the pictures and in the wrightenings, it looks like you hade a lot of fun and really enjoyd your Grande Majore trip !
So...you already planning your next trip....! ? Well that tells me your trip must have been a succsess ha ha ...anyway congrats with comming home safe and sound !
Thx for picture and wrightenings...although i did not cover it all yet he he and thanks for future answeres about " globetrottar " questions and advices that I may bring up somethime in future... or will it all be in the book ?

Jostein