learn to swim, i'll see you down in arizona bay

Got in to san francisco this morning. Finally have some internet access again. And a bit of time before dinner tonight, so I thought i'd better post now as it's been really busy and will be again over the next few days. I left new york for la on saturday. But first we went out friday night to do a flash mobbing type thing with improv everywhere. We created a mexican wave of camera flashes over the brooklyn bridge. Check out their website - http://improveverywhere.com/ - hopefully there'll be something about it up soon.

Got to la without any real issues. I didn't think too much of the city, because it's all freeways. But the tour is going well and i've met some cool people and doing fun stuff, so I enjoyed it.the first day we went on a tour of hollywood, santa monica and venice beach.

That night I got to see murder by death at the troubadour, which was awesome.






Then I got to meet them, which was even more awesome.





Went to disneyland the next day, which was fun. Too many kids though, and a lot of the rides were a bit young for me, but there were still some cool ones, and you're never too old for disneyland.

yesterday we went to universal studios, which was even cooler than disney. They had better rides like jurrasic park and the brand new simpsons ride which only opened this week and was so good we went on it twice. And there were less people (and much less kids). everyone went off in small groups and I spent the day hanging out with a girl from brisbane who's also here on her own. we seemed to luck out so that we hardly ever had to wait in a line, and managed to do everything in the park (rides and shows). Then we went out for dinner with two other melbournians.

Today we flew to san francisco and had a tour of the city. Going out for dinner very soon. And then tomorrow is a free day, so will probably go exploring to see the city (and check out music stores). Then we're going for a sunset cruise on the harbour, which should be awesome.

people always look better in the sun

i've done a few more of the museum things, like the met, natural history museum (dead zoo) and the new art musuem, but the weather the last few days has been beautiful, so i've focused more on being outside and getting to know the place and what new york is about. went for a walk over the brooklyn bridge, sat in the park on the other side, caught a ferry to staten island and back yesterday, went for a walk through central park and visited the zoo, and today we went to williamsburg for lunch. had really nice food at this awesome thai place with a pond in the middle of the dining area with a boat in it. lots of cool little stores around there too, like a cool bookstore and a shop with lots of fancy funky toy things. i think williamsburg is one of my favourite areas so far. also central park. and i spent a day walking around the east village (which is also a favourite) and west village too. i bought heaps of stuff in those places. we went out last night to see some local bands at a bar which was fun. i've got heaps of photos of everything, but i'll have to put them up some other time. also, i saw joey ramone place yesterday! whoo!

on saturday i fly to la.

new york city!

Well, i got here safe and well. The plane flight was very long and disorienting. the plane was pretty empty though, so i got to stretch out over 3 seats. Still too uncomfortable to sleep. Other than that, pretty uneventful. Even getting through customs was easy.

New york is fun. Shannon's apartment is great. and i've adjusted pretty quickly to the time zone. On friday i went to MoMA and spent almost 6 hours there. Then we went out to a bar with some locals after dinner.

Yesterday we went to a Mets (baseball) game in Queens. Then went to grand central on the way home, and saw the view from shannon's roof. In the evening we went out for awesome bbq, then saw times square. Will smith was filming a movie, but the place was insanely busy anyway. We went to the m&m's store and the virgin megastore (both yays!) and i spent moneys. Today we're going to the met i think.

leaving. byez!

ok, i think i'm packed... i better be, i'm heading out in the morning. :) thanks to everyone i've seen/heard from over the last weeks. there's photos up on facebook now. i'll see you all again when i'm home. yay!

here's where i'm gonna be:
may 8 - 17: new york
may 17 - 21: los angeles
may 21 - 23: san francisco
may 23 - 26: las vegas
may 26 - june 2: back in new york
june 3 - 6: london
june 6 - 12: ireland
june 12 - 15: amsterdam
june 16 - 21: france
june 21 - 26: italy
june 26 - 29: back in london

which looks something like this:

then on the 29th i'll either fly back via bangkok, or stay on in london for a bit longer. we'll see how the money goes. ;)

bye for now!

traveling! (whoo!)

i originally started this blog just so i could comment on some other people's blogs. but now that i'm going away, i figured i might use it to let you know how i'm going. this way i won't have to bombard everyone with massive group emails and forget who i'm supposed to be sending them to, and you can all read it in your own time.

ok? ok. nothing to say as of yet. i'll probably put up some photos from going away events sometime soon.

i'm outta here on thursday. :)