{"id":589,"date":"2008-05-05T02:21:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T01:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/?p=589"},"modified":"2008-05-05T09:17:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T08:17:16","slug":"new-york-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/new-york-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"New York, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"View<\/a>Well, you don’t wanna know how much trouble it took me to get this picture in this log… new computer, not yet everything installed, a new ftp program, no program to make photos smaller. Long story short: it took me more than a day. Out of efficiency therefore, this log is only in English. We were in New York City. My oh my, what a city that is!<\/p>\n

I’m totally in love with the New York way of talking… even a electronics saleman could count on my never ending attention! Luckily, I found me a teacher on YouTube<\/a>. The other thing I love about New York is a clich\u00e9: that city never sleeps which is lovely if you got a jetlag. \ud83d\ude42 If you are out of music, you can buy cd’s and films till 2 pm at Virgin’s Megastore<\/a>. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the one cd I wanted to buy<\/a> in none of their shops. Bol.com did have it.
\nWe had a great hotel: the Eastgate Suite Hotel. Not the smallest room you could find, but we had a 2 rooms apartment with a fully equiped bathroom and a kitchen. It was really wow. Two tv’s, a microwave, and a great view on the city, because we were on the 24th floor.
\nYou can shop till you drop in New York and we certainly did that. I freaked out on shoes. Three pairs. Sorry guys, but now I’m ready for the summer. I was on a yarn hunt. I was at The Woolgathering<\/a>\u00a0where I bought beautiful Hacho Peruvian hand dyed merino<\/a> in warm, glowing winter colours. Photos later in my Ravelry stash. I was at The Yarn Connection<\/a> where I bought the greenest and softest yarn ever. It was hand dyed by J. Knits<\/a>, it’s called Montana and its b e a u t i f u l! On her (his?) website I found even more beautiful yarn so I\u00a0am so glad she sells via The Loopy Ewe<\/a>. Inspiring conversation we heard in the shop. Black woman who exclaimed: “I’m not a republican, I’m just a pissed off human being.” All the presidential things are conversation topics. People are fed up with Bush. That’s for sure. I went to Stitches East, chooses for ads in magazines, no on line presence. I had an interesting and friendly conversation with one of the shopladies about the declining knitting hype. I bought Silky Sock yarn by Great Adirondack Yarn Company (tell me if you find a recent link).<\/p>\n

We went to the opera: Satyagraha <\/a>by Philip Glass. It was an adventure to be in the Met and the opera was so festive for ears and eyes. We loved it! We went to The Blue Note<\/a>: the Yellow Jackets. Not very very special. Good music. Period. We went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>. I loved it. I could have stayed there for days. We spent quite a lot of time to look at the Rembrandts and Vermeers. And: Rogier van der Weyde. My favourite. Remarkable: this young lady<\/a>! We passed by the Guggenheim. Funny installation of a Chinese artist. I bought myself the smallest fun pc: Asus eeepc<\/a>, and called it Little Greenie.<\/p>\n

And then, it was over. We are back. In our beautiful house, in our beautiful city. No, I don’t have a jetlag. That’s why I’m uploading this log at this time \ud83d\ude42 (and it is even one hour later than the time it says).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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