i love new york city

i am back in toronto now. but i can't stress how much i love new york city. it's so fantastic. we spent all day saturday downtown. we arrived at the world trade centre subway stop. that was moving. reading the tributes. i blinked back the tears, still not really being able to imagine what it would have been like. it was moving. from there we went to chinatown (canal street) - i loved it, then to central park - i loved it, then to times square - i loved it, then to soho/noho - i loved it. one fantastic place was in soho, it is called rice to riches on spring st, they had about 20 flavours of rice pudding and they come in cute reusable containers (even if grace thinks the design is flawed...). i got caramel and loved it so much, when we went back on sunday, i went there again! don't miss it.
the scottish in me came out, with my scottish (now new yorker) friend mhairi. we saw this one, good lookign well dressed guy handing out free maybeline lip gloss, so we all got one. then i heard the guy say there were 16 of them out in the city. mhairi and i went on a hunt, which meant looking on the next few street corners and managed to get ourselves 17 free lipglosses. we were so excited. (n.b. i am only keeping 4 in my possession - the rest i have already given, or am planing to give, away).
sunday we went back in and went to a few of the same places (we were split up on saturday and not everyone got to see the things i did) and we also went to steve and barry's shoe store and also watched the most intense game of (wall) handball i have ever seen - guys diving on concrete...
to sum oup - I LOVE NEW YORK!
i've noticed the length of my blogs has been on the longer side recently, so i will stop for today. but stay tuned...i have more adventures coming...tomorrow i have to be at the airport at 5am...