Dec 29, 2008

New York - Day 14

Today, the weather was just wonderful with over 60 F. I couldn’t wait to go out and visit few museums. On my way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art which is located inside Central park, I had the beautiful view of East & West Manhattan from central park with bright colours in the sky. I just couldn’t resist taking more pictures of Central Park over looking Manhattan. :)















Dec 28, 2008

New York - Day 13

Few Pictures from Lincoln Jazz Centre at Columbus Circle.

The centre is loaded with Rock art, Metal art, Canvas art, photography art, glass art. Also you have the beautiful Lincoln Jazz center lightings, which change according to the jazz music being played every evening.














Dec 27, 2008

New York - Day 12

Day after Christmas is known as the day of shopping across New York, huge discounts, discounts on discounts on discounts. So, we left for some shopping in and around Empire State building as we have the huge Lord and Taylor, Macy’s etc stores located around it. I got some very good deals at Calvin Klein, Old navy, Gap etc.

Some pictures from today, beautiful Empire state building melting into the sky, sister and I, an imported scooter ;) , lord and Taylor decor etc.














Dec 26, 2008

New York - Day 11

Merry Christmas to all, today's weather has been magnificent, New York has all shops closed, can you believe it, it’s like Diwali in Bangalore or more like a bund (strike) in Bangalore. Except the transportations the rest of New York is closed. All people are rushing back home to celebrate Christmas eve, lanes, trees and homes are decorated with beautiful lightings.

One of my sister’s friend Aparna came down from St. Louis to spend some time with us. So, today the women wanted to watch a movie so we left for New Jersey to watch a Telugu movie (KING), can you believe that a Telugu movie in NY for all the things...uff... Anyways, I wasn’t keen on watching the Telugu movie rather wanted to watch Gajini (Aamir Khan's new movie). Finally we were 2:1 to and decided on the Telugu movie and left to Penn Station to board NJ transit. We reached Metro Park station and I was taken back to see Gajini's movie's ad on the train platform in NJ, picture posted below. Ok, finally we had our Uncle who stays in NJ pick us up from the station and we left for the movie, as we reached the movie hall, we got to know tickets were sold out for the Telugu - KING movie, OMG tickets sold out for a Telugu movie in NJ...Uff...anyways I was happy as I was not interested in the KING movie in the first place, so we had no other option but to watch ‘Gajini’ movie at last. The movie theatre was full with Indian people. After the movie we left for a India restaurant called ‘Mughal’ in NJ, the food was not bad... Later we got back to NY. The funny part was the train tickets cost us $41.50 for 3 people and the movie tickets cost us $15 for 3 people lol what a joke? Few Pictures of New Jersey taken from the train