On Thursday we went to Papaya King (because Boy wanted to eat there), which was supposed to be a famous hot dog restaurant or something. We had to take a lot of various subways to get there, but I don't find the hot dogs anything special.
Nathan's Hot Dogs are a lot better. After that we chilled a bit in Soho and went to Wall Street to see the Charging Bull, it was so busy there! After a long wait we were finally able to take a picture.
After that we walked down to Ground Zero. They were in the progress of rebuilding at the place where the Twin Towers stood, still there was a big gap between the other buildings. We walked around Ground Zero and saw the memorial of the firemen who died during 9/11. It was so eerie to see that.
In the evening Boy wanted to eat at Ray's Pizza again, but when we got there the restaurant was already closing. So we walked down to Little Italy and picked out the first restaurant we saw. I didn't like the spaghetti I ate.
On Friday we woke up a bit later, since we were supposed to go see a Yankees game that evening. We went to Chelsea because we wanted to go to the batting center, but when we got there, the batting center was closed due of Summer Camp. So we walked around the water park for a bit and decided to get to the Yankee Stadium earlier. We ate at the Hard Rock Cafe at the Yankee Stadium and waited in front of the ticket office at around 5PM. About that time the weather changed drastically and it began raining cats and dogs. We waited there in the line for more than an hour before someone came outside and told us that the game was cancelled. Many people were angry and started yelling and stuff. The man at the ticket booth told us that we should go back to the stadium tomorrow at 9AM so we can exchange our tickets to another day.
So the next day we woke up at 5.30AM so we could be at the stadium at 7AM. When we arrived at the stadium, there were already people standing in line in front of the Ticket Office. At around 8.30AM the line got really long. We were able to exchange our tickets to the game of Sunday, for an additional 200 dollars per person!! There were no normal seats left for the games, only the best seats were left and those costs 330 dollars per seat. Since Boy and Dope really wanted to see a Yankee game, they decided to pay for those seats.
In the evening we ate at Go! Go! Curry again, chilled a bit in Bryant Park and went back home to our hotel.
Today we arrived at the Yankee Stadium at around 11AM. We do have nice seats, right behind the home plate, in the shadows (and not the blazing sun). Lucky~! It was so awesome! CC Sabathia was such a great pitcher, he pitched the full nine innings and won the game. Every time Derek Jeter went to the plate, everyone cheered for him since he has reached the 3000 hits with yesterdays game. It was a real Jeter-mania!
We had a nice dinner at Outback (sooo nostalgic to Tokyo!) tonight and we'll go to the Empire State Building tomorrow.
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