NYC Diary - Day 2

I still haven’t got used to the time difference yet, so I woke up just after 6 and spent that time teasing people on the net that I’m in New York. We eventually set off wandering at about 9, with no real plan for the day other than to meander around Midtown and do some shopping. We hit the Rockefeller Centre for a bit of breakfast. We’ve still not got used to American portions yet. We both just got a sandwich - mine was so bloody huge I couldn’t even get my gob around it, let alone finish it.

Now satisfied, we set off to do a bit of shopping. We went to the NBC store first, which was ace – I think we’ll be getting most people’s presents from there! You can even buy sets of Scrubs, which I might have to go back for. I might also go back and blow a load of cash on all the Heroes merchandise. They’ve got all the action figures and I keep picking them up, then realise they’re shit and put them down again.

After that (and a six-block wrong turn) we eventually found The Holy Land… sorry, Nintendo World.

I love Nintendo World.

Nintendo World rules. It’s just chock-full of Nintendo merch, as well as loads of displays of Nintendo history – old Hanafuda playing cards, prototypes, rarities, customised DS consoles, the lot. It’s amazing. I am more impressed, however, that Johanna spent more in there than I did. I knew I’d found a keeper…

Now it was Johanna’s turn – we headed down to Macy’s. We stopped in Victoria’s Secret on the way. Her secret seems to be that despite being regarded as the best lingerie shop in the world, the stores are actually shite. Anyway, we hit Macy’s straight afterwards. I couldn’t tell you much about it, apart from it’s across eight floors, which you have to navigate via rickety old wooden escalators that terrified Johanna. She’s scared enough of the shiny new ones, the bogger :)

We then decided it was food time, and ended up in TGI Fridays. That Jack Daniels sauce is king. Johanna also ordered some kind of fruity margarita, which came as a pint. Cock on. She struggled to finish it so I, caring husband that I am, helped her out. That’s what I do.

We ended up in Virgin Megastores after that for about an hour (which Johanna will tell you was about six hours. She’s lying). I could spend a day in there, no bother. “World’s largest DVD section you say? Bring it on!”. There was also the soundtrack composers for the Dark Knight doing a signing in there. I got really excited when I saw the table set up; I went running over thinking ‘Who’s doing a signing? Christian Bale? Maggie Gyllenhall? Gary Oldman? Michael Caine? Oh… composers…’. So that was a bit of an anticlimax, then. I was again impressed by Johanna, who, despite yawning and looking bored all the way around, still managed to spend more than me. I’m not sure how she does it.