Welcome to Queen's Boulevard

After visiting Madison Square Garden this morning for one fantastic tour (and the meeting of the Knicks dancer's as you will see from the great photo I snapped of the two of them - Dan thinks they look like a couple ... I beg to differ!) we headed out of Manhattan to visit Queens and Brooklyn. As you can see from the photo above Queens was definitely a far cry from the skyscrapers and many parks of Manhattan... it was more graffiti, derelict buildings and 75 cent coffees. Not that we were complaining though as we are on a budget and still had a good time getting off the beaten path. Brooklyn was amazing, full of neat shops, boutiques and cafes though Dan couldn't help but point out that we stuck out like "diamonds in the rough", and he constantly badgered me that my fluorescent yellow coat didn't help us fit in any better. We walked across the Brooklyn bridge back into Manhattan and that was definitely worth the hike.

Yesterday we toured the New York public library which was beyond amazing and puts both the Bromyard and St. marys libraries to shame as you can imagine. Last night we went to a Snowboard half pipe contest that red bull put on in the east village. The constructed a huge hill for the snowboarders to do tricks off and trucked in heaps of snow. It was pretty cool and we saw Sean White who is rather famous. Unfortunately Ross Rebigliatti wasn;t there and I have yet to hear of him since his gold medal at the olympics many moons ago. Perhaps he hangs out with Michael Phelps now ??

We are off to Washington DC tomorrow and are catching a bus from China town so hopefully dan won't get distracted by all of the "great deals" they offer us on the way by. As you can see I am not very good at posting the pictures (they are dan on the brooklyn bridge, queens graffiti and dan and the dancer - professional dancer, not stripper). Thats all for now! Have fun in Calgary mom and dad and say hi to Chris, Marla and the Rubster for me - and Kent! Love Ash and Dan