New York..New York...the city which never sleeps

It's not beautiful, it's New York

We went to New york for Thanksgiving with my friend Nina. :)

The bus trip took 5 hours, and we arrived in the afternoon on Thanksgiving day, the last Thursday in November.The weather was really nice, and when we stepped out from the bus station to the street, we felt amazed. The buildings are huge and tall the roads were closed because the macy's parade. The people were heading home, because the parade just ended.

First we went to a reastaurant, a really special restaurant. The weiters and weitresses were singing while they werved the food. And our friend - with whom we stayed in New York - said that if these waiters or waitresses sing good, they could get in to the Broadway. I enjoyed the food, it was a special Thanksgiving meal with turkey mash potatoes and fillings and we drank a 'black and white' milk shakes and when we were almost finished our meal, one of the waitress sang the New York, New York song. It was the best ending to our meal.

After we unpacked our suitcase at our friends place we went to see the Time Square at night. It was bright, with all the screens, it looked like it's morning. There were lot of people, but compare how many were on Sunday when we left, it was nothing. The best way to describe it is that the people were buzzing there like a bugs around a night light. Than we decided to go to the Empire State Building, to see the amazing view to the city. 

Next day we went to the Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty. We got there with a little boat and the view was amazing to the city from the island. New York has two different faces, one at daytime, one at nighttime. Daytime it's a little bit grey, and looks simple, you have the feeling, there's nothing special about it, but at nighttime it comes alive, with the lights and with the people everywhere. Most of them are just tourists, about 10 percent are New Yorkers it says. At night you have a feeling that this city is the city of opportunities and possibilities and you can live your life and do whatever you want to do. You feel that everything's possible.

We went to the Central Park, and for our surprize, there were a coule who just got merried in the Park in front the people. There were almost nobody else, just the two of them and their two friends, the photographer and a priest. I felt so emotional, watch them get together and make this engagement for their life, to say to each other that they'll be there for each other in good and in bad times, and they'll live happily ever after. I believed it when I saw them. It felt good.

After four busy days we went back to the bus station, we were exhausted and we both thought that was enough and we were ready to go back home and be in our bed again and just get ready to go back to our simple everyday life but all the time when we think back on those days we feel that we're glad that we could see both side of New York.