The Scoop 6/22
My summer is less than a week and a half old, but I am already worn out from all of the activities. I've been working at my regular job, doing paralegal and reception work, when I have time. It is nice to have the added structure to my life that a job provides, but since I havn't been home much it hasn't really set in.
Last Sunday I watched the Dodgers vs Angels game with my Dad on Father's Day, only to take a train ride up to LA later in the afternoon to meet up with my Best Friend. After some time in the jacuzzi and attempting to stay up all night while watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off we woke up to fly to Chicago for a day trip.
Chicago is quite the city. I have always wanted to experience the windy city, so when the opportuinty was offered to me there was no way I was going to turn it down. In about six hours my best friend (Ali) and I were able to: See Wrigley, U.S. Cellular, and Soldier Field, explore the Field Museum, see Millenium Park and the Bean, go to Little Italy and find the Joe DiMaggio statue, walk and shop on Navy Pier and take a speedboat tour of the city, go to the top of the Sears Tower, and finally go on an hour long excursion of the city to find a slice of pizza. You would be surprised at how difficult it is to find a slice there, they seem to only sell whole pizzas...
Wrigley was, obviously, amazing, but I will post more on that as a whole later. U.S. Cellular is probably the most gorgeous modern park I have seen. And the Field Museum has a better collection of dinosaurs than the Smithsonian. Overall I have to admit that Chicago is definately in my favorite cities, it is very unique, I don't know that I can compare it to any city I have been to before.
New York plans to be quite the trip. I love the city of New York, and can't wait to get in another dose of it. It seems that once you go there you never really leave, at least not in spirit. The Yankees won't be in town when I'm there, but the Mets will. I'm hoping to catch a game over at Shea, but they are all night games, and night means theater so I'm not sure that will work out. I'm most looking forward to visiting the Natural History Museum, because I love dinosaurs. Odd, I know, what is a 19 year old girl doing loving dinosaurs? But I really like looking at fossils. My favorite is the velociraptor, I even own a roboraptor. I'm really anticipating the release of Pleo... Google it to see how awesome it is going to be. Anyways...
I'm going to post about Wrigley later, just thought I would update everyone on the scoop.
The Mets of the month of June (much to my disgust) are looking like an off-off-off-off Broadway comedy that wasn't meant to be a comedy. Or worse yet, a Shakespearean tragedy.
Let me know if you want inside information of which are the better pizzerias in NYC.
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I guess I'm a typical New Yorker in that about half of the things you're planning on doing as a tourist, I haven't done even though I live here. The main thing I remember about the Natural History Museum is that when my fiancee and I were on line waiting to get in, there was a young Jewish guy on an apparently arranged date with a girl; he was droning on and on about something and I remember her looking REALLY bored. The pizzerias I would recommend are in Brooklyn: Pizza Wagon (they have the best slices) on 86th street and fifth avenue; Da Vinci on 18th Avenue and 64th street; and L&B Spumoni Gardens on 86th Street and 27th Ave. In Manhattan, I like Pizza Box on Bleecker and 6th Avenue; and Ben's in the Village has good square slices. You really can't go wrong going into one of the famous midtown delis for lunch. Boxers in the village has good burgers/grilled chicken/vegetable sandwiches. I'm not sure what there is to see in Staten Island other than the Mall; and if you wanna shop Jersey Gardens Outlet Mall is not much further, bigger and a lot cheaper.
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