Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Day 11 - New York City - Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Awoke today after a full night of drug induced sleep. I feel much more rested now.

We had some breakfast and Sharon headed off for her hairdresser appointment and I'm about to head off back down town to check out some more camera gear, of course.

It's a bit of a gloomy overcast day today.


Night time update

I ventured back down to B&H camera store and purchased a few more photography items. I also spent some time in their video/film section. They have some amazing gear in there. Some stunning HD video cameras and steadycam style support items.

Back to the apartment to drop off my purchases and then down to pick up some vegan soup from a health cafe I noticed near to our apartment. We had our soup and then headed for the subway to make our way over to Williamsburg in Brooklyn where we had been last time. We walked around the main restaurant/cafe/bar area and found a great little cafe for some soy chai.

We spent an hour in the cafe sheltered from the rain and then made our way to the Wild Ginger, a vegan Thai restaurant we had been to before that was great, which it was again this time.

After dinner we made our way back into Manhattan on the subway and ventured past Birdland Jazz club to see what was coming up. We came back to our apartment and bought some tickets to see Freddy Cole (brother of Nat 'King' Cole) perform tomorrow night.

We're also going to try and get tickets to see the New York String Orchestra perform at Carnegie Hall on Christmas Eve. I've always wanted to see a performance at Carnegie Hall.

Looks like rain tomorrow and a more for the weekend and Christmas. No snow forecast currently although it was on this mornings forecast.

Today's Weather

Wind: from the N (360 degrees) at 6 MPH (5 KT) 
Visibility: 10 mile(s) 
Sky conditions: mostly cloudy 
Temperature: 44.1 F (6.7 C) 
Dew Point: 30.0 F (-1.1 C) 
Relative Humidity: 57% 
Pressure (altimeter): 30.19 in. Hg (1022 hPa)