Start Spreading the News: PS goes to NYC

May 10, 2004 was my first time in New York City. After about a month of hanging around in Miami, waiting for my ship assignment, I flew to La Guardia, hailed a yellow cab upon arrival and drove to the pier to join my ship. That was my brief NYC moment. I don't remember much about it except driving along Broadway Avenue and Times Square and cruising by the Statue of  Liberty and the Brooklyn bridge.

It took two years for me to come back to New York again and I remembered being so excited because that time we docked for three days! I got the first and second day off and I was port manning on the third day. Port manning by the way means you can't get off the ship, certain number of crew members must stay onboard to perform certain duties in case an emergency happens. Sometimes you can choose which port/city you would want to stay onboard but most of the times the manager makes the schedule (that's why it pays to have a good relationship with your superiors but not always! hehe).

So with an ample free time in hand, I gathered all my energy to explore the city that never sleeps:

SNOW!! @ Central Park

Central Park

The World's Most Famous Arena

Ground Zero, Site of the former WTC Twin Towers

Wall Street

Mabuhay! Saw this on our way to the Empire State Building

At the Empire State Building

The view from the top of the empire

I Luv NY!

Times Square


Radio City Music Hall

New York Subway

That's Roxie, my photog friend from Romania, and my personal photographer that day. Hehe.

I was there! @ Staten island

For some reasons I always thought the color of the statue of Liberty is white but I was wrong.. It's green, it's apple green..