Laura goes to the US

germany in nyc, first snow, and no sleep

the upcoming weekend i spent in new york city - THE city. I drove along my favourite highway -skyway actually- (the picture) and met marc in chinatown to start our christmas shopping. since we just couldn´t manage to meet krisztina and jens in that big city we spent a day absorbing the christmas atmosphere. the only thing that was missing was the smell. after chinatown we made our way to little italy, had a cappuccino in a nice small cafe, were amazed about the plastic christmas decoration of a church and the huge snow bowls outside the restaurants
(they move and moving styropor pretends the snow) and went all the way up to the union square. there is a nice handscraft christmas market during christmas time with lots of arts and all that good stuff you would find on a german christmas market, too. ...except food. and the only thing that was really missing was a big mug of glühwein. we also met an artist that painted us a little picture on the back of a magnet. at night i went to east village to celebrate mario´s birthday. he´s also a german studiing at seton hall, so his idea was to invite everybody to a german bar. Imagine a bavarian restaurant (owned by germans, so nothing disney like) filled with a crowd of students screaming german schlager, we would never listen to in germany but that are so much fun when you are away from home... plus they had fresh bretzeln! yumm! and i lost my voice :) i guess, everyone had a fun time!
after that we went on to another loungebar. and then back home. this was kind of an odysee because that night the first snow fell and the streets were more likely to used by iceskaters than by cars... so it took us the whole night to get home! and that sunday i just went to bed at 1.30pm and slept the whole day...

posted by Laura @ 9:30 PM