Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Climbing Like Kong


Day 2 (part 2):

Old Man In a Bird Suit
After the Sbarro adventure I was given the unique opportunity to see Mr. Letterman tape his show.  His guest for the night was the wonderful Richard Simmons.  He came riding in on a bike taxi wearing a shirt of red feathers.  I'm  going to have to find a video of it, because it really was beyond anything i can, or want, to describe

The Long way Home
We then headed towards grand central but swung by bryant park to see them playing old movies.  There were hundreds and hundreds of people filling the park, it seriously made me want to live there, this would easily become part of my weekly routine if i was near the city.


From there the Empire state building was spotted, and the idea was had to go find it and go o the top.  When we got there we were confronted by  nice lady selling tickets to some flight simulator.  Long story short she wanted us to pay $45  a piece to take a virtual tour of the city, and then head to the 86th floor for observation, the only perk was we would not have to wait in the line for 90 minutes.  We got to talking, brought up the fact that my partner in crime gets extreme motion sickness, and before you know it she was helping us sneak ahead in line.  

We were lead around the building through doors in the back, two security guards checked us for weapons but paid no mined to what we were doing.  W headed to the mens bathroom, asked where the line was to go to the top of the Empire State building and presto, we skipped though all the lines on the road.  Thank you simulator lady, wherever you are

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