On the way home from an exciting day in NYC today. On our way down we stopped and checked out the Orange County Choppers store in some small town off the express way. If you’ve ever watched the show then you’d be impressed to see the bikes in person. They’re very cool and super smooth. After that we continued onto the City. We got in and walked all over the place (from 9th Ave past 1st, and there’s not just numbers in there, there was also Lexington, Madison, and a few others). We then jumped in a cab and went back where we had came from essentially, and headed for Times Square. I’ll attach a picture to try to express how nuts TS is, but it’s basically a wild zoo of people and advertisements (tv ones too!) moving but not going anywhere at all. It was definitely cool seeing how the City really operates, but I can’t imagine living there or working there. We then headed to a wonderful Italian place off of Times Square. It was a pretty fancy joint, and the food was authentic and delicious. Next we took to the streets looking for Rockefeller Plaza (it’s the picture with the gold statue of Prometheus, and where the put the gigantic Christmas tree at). The Nintendo World Store was our destination, and our route was possibly the most indirect possible. We made it, but only after being swindled by a guy into buying some hates to help homeless people (he was a great salesman though). The Store itself was kind of impressive, but I was hoping to buy something exclusive or see new game demos (why couldn’t they send the e3 demos still set up to them??) but there was nothing that couldn’t be found elsewhere, save for some embroidered hats and jackets. I even lugged my DS there with the high hopes that they’d have the downloaded demo stations they have in Japan and at e3, but nothing still. They did redeem themselves though with the micro-museum. I put a few pictures of this up. Lets see, there’s a prototype cassette recorder in the classic NES gray, along with a keyboard and two redesigned controllers. Then there’s a huge collection of I believe every style Gameboy SP, including the Japanese Famicom version. Lastly there’s the Famicom itself next to a normal NES, both in pristine condition. That’s pretty much it for ny, except we did stop at an NBA store that was massive. So I decided to include a picture of Todd guarding Shaq… I thought he did a good job….

Oh yeah, I also saw a sweet LOVE park sign replica. You can barely make it out in the pictures, but it’s definitely there.
Brandon

Pictures here