one week down

well all week we have been getting the camp ready before kids arrive which meant cleaning the pool for us everyday and lifeguard training. until i got sick on tues and weds...we have to wear that stupid tube thing that u see in movies when we are life guarding ALL the time!! it looks so stupid and it's so bloody big! anyways i'm getting majorly brown! haha it's awesome here coz we don't have a massive hole in the ozone layer so u just tann and don't burn! wohoo


thursday we got a day off and everyone got driven into manhattan in the big yellow school bus! haha. i spent the most of the day with a freo chick = maia, austrian=martina and swedish= marianne. we are all the swim people for the summer! we got dropped off at lincoln square and made our way down through times square to get some food. after that we caught the subway which is so bloody dodgy and dirty! don't expect anything like the mrt haha.

we arrived at chinatown... and omg it was a different world... it has illegal immigrants written all over it! hahaha it's pretty cool coz there was heaps of cheap stalls and even maccas signage was in chinese and starbucks was amzing. the interior was like an old chinese building..really kool. even the stalls down here were different. instead of selling hotdogs and pretzels, there were wontons and fried squid! haha after that made our way down to little italy which was pretty kool too. had heaps of restuarants and gelato!!! we just went through it pretty much so we can reach soho!! soho is like shopping central. with your major brands and cheap stuff too! victoria secret is shaving a summer sale but by the time u queue to get in, everything will be gone! it was so bloody busy! i didn't do much shopping coz then i will have to carry it around the whole country so shopping will have to wait til i'm back!

we left to empire state building to meet up with the boys for some drinks. when we got there it was pretty clear that they been drinking the whole day. typical of guys huh, come all the way to nyc and drink! omg. maia and i left for some food and we went into this food deli thing where u can myo anything. almost. i had the worst pasta ever! maia was awesome because the bloody mexcian dude had a crush on her and wanted her to come again tommorow. haha we went back for a couple more. i had apricot ale which pretty nice!

we had to make our way back to lincoln centre and we only had 40 mins left to walk it!...and then it rains, actually pours down, with lightening and thunder! we were all drenched! and still had like 20 blocks to walk down! haha but we thought it was pretty funny acfter hacing a couple!
then the bus was running late, when it arived, it had a flat tyre on the freeway and we had to wait under a bridge or shall i say some homeless guy's home. finally dave and vic picked us up and we got home at 1! instead of 10. it was pretty fun day though!

best bit of the day was i bought a pashmere scarf for $2!!! so cheap and i love it! the funny thing is that marianne bought 2 scarfs for $12! haha she got ripped off in china town as well! haha man she's not going to do very well haha