NY NY

So far Dan and I are getting slightly worried; why you may ask? Well, so far we pretty much think New York absolutely kicks ass and this is worrying because we endured a blizzard yesterday and very below freezing temperatures today and we STILL loved it. This means that every other place we visit is going to have to roll out the red carpet. We can't understand why everyone thinks this place is so busy and chaotic - I like to think it's more just pure reckless abandon. Today we took the Staten Island Ferry to see the statue of liberty and New York skyline and that was pretty much awesome. Then we went to the free taping of the David Letterman show (English translation: Late night with Jonathan Ross) and that was even better. THEN we went to the biggest used book store in New York and anyone who knows me will know that that was secretly the highlight of my day. I have to say that the big disappointments were the Hersheys and M & M stores in times square - not one free sample in sight and all of the gaudy souveneirs prompted us to ask who buys this crap? Asians. That's who.
Tomorrow we are going to check out some new areas and wander through Chinatown and Little Italy. We are also going to hit up Brooklyn because it is the new hipster area and we are both pretty hip :) Bye for now! ash and dan

Entering the blogosphere...

Hello to all! We arrived in New York safe and sound last night to find that getting to our hostel would take longer on the subway than our flight from Toronto. Nonetheless we survived alright and manged to visit Time Square and the surrounding area before hitting the sack at around 11 last night. Dan didn't take too well to his first 12 bed dorm experience so he napped this morning while I ran in Central Park. I didn't see any famous runners but it was snowing/raining quite hard so I will try again tomorrow. Today we toured around Greenwich village (very quaint and cute) and then went down to the financial district to take a look around Wall Street and ground zero. Both were rather depressing but things started looking up when we got offered free tickets to the David Letterman taping tomorrow afternoon. We don't know who the guests are but anyone who knows Dan knows he will be causing some raucous in the audience so we very well might get on TV!
The weather has been on the side of blizzard/horrendous/extremely annoying so hopefully things will look up for tomorrow! Tonight we are going to a near by comedy club owned by none other than the Jerry Seinfeld but I doubt he or Adam Sandler will drop by as the ticket seller hinted sometimes happens ...( he sure hooked Dan in though!)
Bet you didn't think I would blog so soon did you ... MOM! Love ash and dan