New Year's weekend at Boston, New York and the Nutmeg state I

Flew to Boston Thursday (Dec 28, 06) for a short trip to Hemmant and Navin's. Arrived at Boston, did not even wait to unpack, drove straight to Navin and Annie's place at Connecticut. Many thanks to her excellent burritos, I was no longer feeling famished - waiting 4 hours for a connecting flight to Boston with delays at o'hare can do that to you.

If we had left it to Hemmant, it would have been a permanent diet of lemon curd and indian relish on bread. To his credit, they actually tasted great, we pretty much emptied his Trader Joe's condiments by Monday. Never saw Navin attempt anything at the kitchen, probably best that he didn't.

Pic 1: Hemmant, Annie's place, somewhere in Connecticut between Boston and NY

We rented out 'Napolean Dynamite' and 'Little Miss Sunshine' from blockbuster. I liked both the movies, have always been a big fan of 'Napolean Dynamite', but it wasn't a big hit with anyone else other than me.

New York: Drove to New York on Friday. At the risk of stating the obvious - New York, a multi-cultural city continously re-inventing itself, a city in high adrenaline, a city that makes you feel as though you are part of something big. Too much has been said already about New York, so I have added very little commentary.

On the road to Manhattan, just by the Hudson river, we saw a couple of planes etching out 'Who will she choose?' How hard is that?

Pic 2: Sky Graffitti, New York

Pic 3: Skyscraper, Manhattan, New York

Below is the Fuller building - more famously known as the Flatiron building.

When I was schooling in India, I used to frequent the library by my parent's house - the Swami Vivekananda library, RK Mutt, Mylapore, Madras. A particular favorite used to be this huge photograph book on Skyscrapers. One of the best photos in that book was a classic one of the Fuller building in New York you see below; of course that picture was much better, showing the building at it's center edge, with the mid-height perspective, with the bulding splitting the street into two. I have always wanted to see this building since. So, this trip was a realisation of a dream of sorts for me.

Pic 4: Fuller building, or famously the Flatiron building, Broadway st, New York (Office of Daiy Bugle in movie - Spiderman I,II)

Pic 5: Navin, Annie at Madison Square park, New York


Pic 6: View of Empire State from Madison Square park, New York


Pic 7: Washington Square Park, New York


Pic 8: Chess shop, New York


Pic 9: Trinity church, near Wall Street, New York


Pic 10: Beautiful Christmas tree at NYSE, Wall street, New York


Pic 11: Statue - George Washington, Wall Street, New York

Could not get a moment off from other tourists to take a proper picture of the 'Raging Bull' - a symbol synonymous with the NYSE. For some reason, tourists were molesting the bull like crazy, climbing it, tring to tame it, bring it down, and more outrageously, many among the female tourists holding on to the bull's balls!!

Pic 12: Highly molested 'Raging Bull', Symbol of Wall Street, New York


Pic 13: Statue of Liberty, New York


Pic 14: Hemmant, blurry skyscrapers, New York