USA Holiday, November 06 (Canyon Of Heroes)

The plan was to arrive about one hour early for the Yankees parade. That probably should have been about four hours. The whole place was packed, everything was blocked off, and the street (Broadway) they were going up isn't big enough to support thousands of people on the sidewalk. The amount of confetti, paper and other junk coming out of the windows was amazing, it just all kept on coming down from around the corner somewhere, I couldn't actually see where it was originating from.

GODZILLA! - Hideki Matsui

Alex Rodriguez.

A.J. Burnett.

Made our way up to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Annex (also on the free Pass) next, going via Wall Street as that was the only way to get uptown.

US Stock Exchange building.

6 degrees in the middle of the day, not so much fun.

The HOF wasn't too bad, my favourite bit was actually just the intro room where they have plaques for all of the artists that have made it in. Every 5-10 seconds they play a clip from a different artist and their section of the wall lights up. It gets progressively faster and then the whole room goes dark. For some reason you can't take photographs in this place either. The audio tour in here was a little bit different, as it would detect your position in the room and play music related to the display you were currently looking at, very clever. There was also a large John Lennon room at the end which was nice.

A trip to New York, the greatest city in the world! wouldn't be complete without passing by The Late Show and Rupert's Hello Deli.

men men men men-men men-men men men (have I said men enough times yet? no?)
men men men men-men men-men men men meeeeeeen

Next was another visit to a free Pass event, which sounded ok in the book but was in fact even more pointless than the New York City Skyride. It's called the Paley Museum Of TV And Radio, so it doesn't sound so bad. However, all it turned out to be was a library!? where you can select TV shows to watch, rather than books to read. The whole place just seemed weird and awkward, like most libraries, but we were kind of stuck in the library once we got there so I had to choose something.

So I just selected some random episode from Real World Hawaii, they had like episodes 5, 6 and 13 only for some reason (I think Matt was a consultant for the library) watched about five minutes of it and then tried to get the hell out of there. Down on the next level they advertised a Lost gallery which sounded cool, but it was just four murals / posters on a wall by the elevators. Also more awkward stuff on that level as they had these two screening rooms which had a schedule for the day, like one episode of The Simpsons, then one episode of Star Trek and so on, with an employee just sitting on a chair in the hall by the elevators outside the screening rooms to assist people. Just a really, really strange place.

The NBA Store (what a great store) and Rockefeller Plaza were just down the street from this place. Somehow after going to both Top Of The Rock and the NBC Studio Tour on separate days, I'd still not managed to see the actual plaza area.

Ended up back down south because Jason wanted to go to some department store, which happened to be right next to the World Trade Centre / Ground Zero area. It still was all fenced off though, and there was nothing to see.