Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:10 am
well I got back and as planned, I blew all of my $275 I had in the NBA Store (well most of it) I was like a kid in a gigantic candy store
$024 - Official Dallas Mavericks Draft 06 Hat
$160 - Authentic Dallas Mavericks Dirk Nowitzki Away Jersey
=$197 (with tax)
I also took a picture with a Dirk Nowitzki cardboard cutout (which had a Miami Heat 2006 NBA Champions shirt on over it
)
Compared with that, and all the other things we did, it was a pretty great trip
$024 - Official Dallas Mavericks Draft 06 Hat
$160 - Authentic Dallas Mavericks Dirk Nowitzki Away Jersey
=$197 (with tax)
I also took a picture with a Dirk Nowitzki cardboard cutout (which had a Miami Heat 2006 NBA Champions shirt on over it
)
Compared with that, and all the other things we did, it was a pretty great trip
Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:20 pm
I'm backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
I really don't feel like talking about the trip right now because I'm tired as hell, but I'll either write a recap later on tonight or tomorrow with some pics.
I really don't feel like talking about the trip right now because I'm tired as hell, but I'll either write a recap later on tonight or tomorrow with some pics.
Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:48 pm
Cool, welcome back. Interested to see how the trip went.
Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:14 pm
Well, it's time for me to start writing about the trip. It might be a little long, it might not, depends on how much I can remember 
Friday - My dad, mom, sister, brother and I got to the airport at around 7AM and our flight was suppose to leave at 8:30AM. To our surprise, we saw no other than Mike Miller! He was waiting in line like us to be checked to go through the metal detectors. To skip all that, once we got off the plane, we had to wait like 10 minutes on our luggage and we had to catch our first taxi ever to the hotel. We had passed by Central Park, Rockafeller Centre and all those places.
That's the hotel we stayed in, and on the next street was Times Square so we werne't far from it at all. When we first got into the hotel, we rested for like 30 mins then we went to this Pizza place, I forgot the name of it but some people from NY should know the place I'm talking about since its right by the Sheraton Manhattan. I think its the Pizzaria or something. But that was some of the best pizza I've ever had in my life. So, we left there and start walking our asses off. We walked all the way from the pizza place, to the Sean John place and that was pretty far. I bought a shirt and a cap from Sean John and that cost $60 damn dollars.
After going to Sean John, we shopped at a couple of other places and we were pretty tired after that and we ate at T.G.I. Fridays
Saturday - This is when the real vacation started. We went to the Broadway Theatre and saw the Color Purple play which was the best play I've ever seen and the only other one I seen was the Nutcracker when I was like in 3rd grade But I thought it was going to be boring as hell and nothing like the movie, but I was wrong. We walked Times Square at night for the first time and its nothing like it at all. I'm tired from all this typing, more pics and reading will be tomorrow. Here are some more pics for you to look at though:
I'll save the rest for the rest of my post.
Friday - My dad, mom, sister, brother and I got to the airport at around 7AM and our flight was suppose to leave at 8:30AM. To our surprise, we saw no other than Mike Miller! He was waiting in line like us to be checked to go through the metal detectors. To skip all that, once we got off the plane, we had to wait like 10 minutes on our luggage and we had to catch our first taxi ever to the hotel. We had passed by Central Park, Rockafeller Centre and all those places.
That's the hotel we stayed in, and on the next street was Times Square so we werne't far from it at all. When we first got into the hotel, we rested for like 30 mins then we went to this Pizza place, I forgot the name of it but some people from NY should know the place I'm talking about since its right by the Sheraton Manhattan. I think its the Pizzaria or something. But that was some of the best pizza I've ever had in my life. So, we left there and start walking our asses off. We walked all the way from the pizza place, to the Sean John place and that was pretty far. I bought a shirt and a cap from Sean John and that cost $60 damn dollars.
After going to Sean John, we shopped at a couple of other places and we were pretty tired after that and we ate at T.G.I. Fridays
Saturday - This is when the real vacation started. We went to the Broadway Theatre and saw the Color Purple play which was the best play I've ever seen and the only other one I seen was the Nutcracker when I was like in 3rd grade
But I thought it was going to be boring as hell and nothing like the movie, but I was wrong. We walked Times Square at night for the first time and its nothing like it at all. I'm tired from all this typing, more pics and reading will be tomorrow. Here are some more pics for you to look at though:I'll save the rest for the rest of my post.
Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:29 pm
LOOOOOOOOOOOL at the 2nd to last pic! Next time link the pics.
Next time link the pics.
Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:30 pm
Those pics are great.
My flight to NYC leaves at 11 PM on Saturday
NO TERRORIST JOKES MAFIER (this is Playa in case you didn't know).
My flight to NYC leaves at 11 PM on Saturday
NO TERRORIST JOKES MAFIER (this is Playa in case you didn't know).
Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:31 pm
Nice watch man.... 
Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:32 pm
Nice pics (maybe more women in them ).
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Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:34 pm
LOL! at the guy sleeping in the grass nice pics man, dont tell me you went on one of those site seeing bussing 
Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:46 pm
wtf is that guy sleeping on the grass.... BIG TAXI!!!!!!!!!
Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:33 pm
looked like a mad trip did you go retro with that phone, i didn't know they still made arials like that for mobiles.
Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:54 pm
oooh, I saw bodies the exhibition (big advertisement on one of the red buses) it was really cool.
Looks like a great trip, did you feel out of place?
Looks like a great trip, did you feel out of place?
Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:58 pm
damn I got all excited, I was looking at the friday pics looking for me
but 7 AM is too early
but 7 AM is too early
Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:04 pm
Sounds like a great trip... Why's he half-naked on the grass? Is that Dolan?
Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:30 am
Nice trip for you..depressing for me. I'm tired of seeing those places...give me a green and trees n' shit. Yes..i'm jaded.
Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:53 am
those pictures look exactly like the ones I took when I went to New York in May. The guy on the ground looks similar to the guy I took lying on a bench but with dirty clothes on.
Yohance: There are a few nice parks like Bryant Park and Central Park. It doesn't exactly take away the skyscrapers, but it's still nice to be in to get away from the buildings.
Sat Jul 01, 2006 4:27 am
Good trip! I was at Times Square, too, soooo crowded
Sat Jul 01, 2006 4:38 am
Makes me want to go to NY, not the homeless guy pic, but the other pics of the sites and stuff.
Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:05 pm
Yohance Bailey wrote:Nice trip for you..depressing for me. I'm tired of seeing those places...give me a green and trees n' shit. Yes..i'm jaded.
Finally. Someone normal.
I live up in the green, and i love it. I don't understand the big deal with places like new york. Advertisement galore. I wouldn't trade where i live for anywhere else in the world. (Ok, maybe i would, shuddupayoface).
Plus driving is more fun on the winding roads
Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:59 pm
nah man, what i love about the city is the culture. pics n stuff i agree wit you, theyre not that great. but jus bein there....man, theres nothin like it.that may be because ive lived there all my life, but oh well.
Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:34 pm
2AaSRA wrote:nah man, what i love about the city is the culture. pics n stuff i agree wit you, theyre not that great. but jus bein there....man, theres nothin like it.that may be because ive lived there all my life, but oh well.
Exactly, being there and the pics don't come together at all. When your there is amazing, I don't know exactly why
but it is. There is no way to explain it. I'm so use to all the green and stuff here in Memphis so it was a different atmosphere for me.
Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:48 pm
TGI Friday's 
As a person currently habituated in the suburbs, I can't say I'd rather live in NYC than where I am right now. It's too busy, too dirty, and too expensive. I mean, I want to live in a city during at least some point in my life, but it'd have to be more low-key than NYC, preferably Boston or San Francisco. (BTW, Boston is a fantastic city, and I highly recommend visiting it.)
Anyways, I can see why someone might be in such awe at a place such as New York, but I can see myself getting extremely tired with it. It's a great place to get away to every now and then, as we all need a taste of it's culture, but would I really want to hang out in Times Square every night?
Trust me, there are many cities out there better than New York City. Sydney, as our resident Australians can vouch for, is a great city; so is Chicago; so is Paris. These are places where I'd much rather live than the costly, awake-24/7 NYC.
As a person currently habituated in the suburbs, I can't say I'd rather live in NYC than where I am right now. It's too busy, too dirty, and too expensive. I mean, I want to live in a city during at least some point in my life, but it'd have to be more low-key than NYC, preferably Boston or San Francisco. (BTW, Boston is a fantastic city, and I highly recommend visiting it.)
Anyways, I can see why someone might be in such awe at a place such as New York, but I can see myself getting extremely tired with it. It's a great place to get away to every now and then, as we all need a taste of it's culture, but would I really want to hang out in Times Square every night?
Trust me, there are many cities out there better than New York City. Sydney, as our resident Australians can vouch for, is a great city; so is Chicago; so is Paris. These are places where I'd much rather live than the costly, awake-24/7 NYC.
Sun Jul 02, 2006 12:58 am
Nick wrote:I live up in the green, and i love it. I don't understand the big deal with places like new york. Advertisement galore. I wouldn't trade where i live for anywhere else in the world. (Ok, maybe i would, shuddupayoface).[/b][/color]
As much as I enjoy visiting New York and would like to visit there again, I wouldn't want to live there either. I'm not the big city kind of guy. I like smaller cities where it's not so crowded and full of people.