I really like the last 6 weeks of the year in America. The weather begins to start getting really cold [the hot coffee that you sip on at a Starbucks window and look at the people outside is that much more stimulating], people pull out all their woollens [which essentially means that the only colours you will see people in are black and beige; in New York, make that just black 
], and it is time to go ice-skating!
The best part are the holidays. Right from Thanksgiving to Christmas and New Year. The crazy sales begin, people wake up at 4 am in the morning to line up outside stores and indulge in other such madness. A side-effect of all this is that New York’s streets are even more packed than they usually are and the area around the Macy’s store on 33rd St. is simply teeming with people. Even at work, things move slowly. People keep taking vacation days and generally pretend there isn’t anything more to do until Jan 2nd
This Thanksgiving I stayed at home and Rahul came visiting. We had a lovely time just hanging out, watching movies, going around New York and freezing in the cold on a Sat’day night just to take pictures of the Manhattan skyline using a tripod and our Canon digital camera (which now is his)
I have to admit that I definitely missed the camera given that I haven’t had one since I moved to New York and there have been so many new things to capture, not the least of which is the study area in my bedroom.
I took Rahul on a sightseeing tour (not quite all of New York though) that Friday. He particularly wanted to see the statue of the big bull on Broadway, very close to Wall Street.
The bull was something we found quite fascinating. People were taking all kinds of pictures.
Having just seen the movie National Treasure, Trinity Church was still very fresh in our minds.
Then we saw the famous New York Stock Exchange, the centre of world finance (or so they believe).
The subway trains in New York move really fast and convey the sense of urgency that is in every New Yorker.
We went past 750, Seventh Avenue – one of the 2 main buildings at Morgan Stanley’s midtown offices.
We asked a passing stranger to take a picture of the two of us.
The view, after dark, from the top of the Empire State was spectacular. Rahul and I realized that our poor Canon’s 1 million pixels weren’t enough
On Saturday, I took Rahul to the rehearsal studio where I go to practise being a drummer.
When we got home, we sat around just relaxing. Rahul saw TV ….
… and I took pictures of my bedroom …
Every single weekend, I look at the sunset over the Manhattan skyline and admire its beauty. New York city’s skyline is to me, the most inspiring in the world.
Could life get any better?
