Masses in the Urban Canyon

Yesterday we decided to go uptown. We went from Empire State building to the old New York Library, on to Central Park and Time Square. Now these are highclass parts of Manhattan, but mainly it was crowded beyond belief! I quickly tire of slowly on-lumbering masses and so it was a hudge relief when we found the Library and the small restive park area in front. Here people were reading and relaxing and sitting there watching the pigeons was very soothing.

The Library itself was extremely beautiful and had a lot of interesting exibitions. One of the halls had to montres in the middle. One with a original 1455 Gutenberg Bible and one with ... the original Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore and the Kangaroo. The original teddys that inspired AA Milne. The actual Eeyore. It had a little pin holding its tail on and it had obviously been sown back on a few times as well. Just writing this bring tears to my eyes. I know so many of my friends will be insanely jealous.

Although very crowded, these immensely fashionabel parts of New York are something to see! These glittering urban Canyons of buildings are quite impressive.



In the afternoon we were pretty tired from walking so we got into a horse carriage and took a turn around central park. Our driver was Steven, a very native New Yorker who knew every little thing about the Park and the area around it. Everything. The trip was very relaxing and nice. After that we went to the movies to watch the new Batman movie which is of course awesome.

We concluded our evening with a walk around Times Square. This was even more crowded if that is possible than any place we had been. And the amount of light and omnipresent commercials were just insane. Times Square is the most disturbed place I've ever been. And I've been in Beijing.