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My Big Apple Weekend

Well I just arrived in Boston today and Im in bed getting ready to sleep for my first night on campus at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Nothing really to report about Boston yet, but I did spend the whole weekend in NYC, so I thought I should definitely blog about that.

I spent the whole weekend running around the Big Apple with my friends Matt, Julian, and Stephanie and I got to see some other people there as well, including my Uncle Paul who lives right there in the city near Grand Central Station. I managed to make it to four of the five boroughs (all except Statin Island) during my stay.

Matt and I first arrived in the Bronx (after a really long and slow drive across the George Washington Bridge) to meet up with Julian and Steph who were watching the Met. Opera in an outdoor park. Then we drove back to the place we were staying which is in Queens (beautiful spot right on the river with an amazing view of the city from a patio up top). We then spent most of Saturday in Manhattan, covering all kinds of ground, from Greenwich Village through Washington Park and into the East Village for a huge outdoor Farmers Market. Matt and I then met up with some other friends, Luke and A-Rod, in a pub near Times Square. We walked through Times Square and Central Park and then we caught a train to Brooklyn to eat African food and see Luke and A-Rod's apartment. Matt and I then went back to Queens to drink wine with Julian on the patio till 3 in the morning. It was a long eventful day for sure.

Today I woke up and met up with my uncle at his apartment and we walked all over the city together, once again by Times Square and through more of Central Park, and by a bunch of other stuff as well. Walking around the city talking to my uncle sort of made me feel like the younger male character in a Woody Allen movie who walks around the city with Woody and listens to all of his theories on life, love, and politics. Pretty interesting stuff.

Then I hopped in my car at about five o'clock and drove up to Boston where I now lay my head. I wake up tomorrow morning and head to my first Greek class. Things are moving kind of quickly. I should have more to update in no time.

Posted by todd at June 18, 2007 12:11 AM