Keep your pants on!
It is not unusual to meet the weird and the wonderful on a subway ride in New York. So, any real New Yorker will keep his poker face when some strange character makes a scene in the subway. However, the Annual No Pants! Subway is known to raise the eyebrows of even the most experienced New Yorker...
Each year, ImprovEverywhere organizes a get-together of people willing to drop their pants in public, in the subway. Last Saturday, approximately 1,200 people participated and went on a ride on several subway trains without their pants on... while outside it was snowing!
This was the result of last year's No Pants! Subway Ride.
Improv Everywhere also organizes other daring and hilarious events. These are my favourites:
Food Court Musical
Frozen Grand Central
No Shirts... in the famous Abercrombie & Fitch
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
First days in New York...
... and yes, we are still alive! ;-)
We arrived on Saturday, jet lag left on Sunday, the furniture arrived on Monday, Internet arrived on Tuesday. And we saw that it was good.
It is a big adaptation and it surely will take a couple of weeks before we are finally settled, but rest assured – we are doing fine in the Big Apple! The transition was not as hard as I feared. The weather in New York is not (yet) harsh, our apartment is stuffed with our old furniture, and we (especially Ward) have been so busy that we have not yet had the time to get homesick!
So far, it has been a great experience even though I have not seen much of Manhattan until now. The Columbia Better Halves Club turned out to be a great starting point for me – I’ve already met many “better halves” in the same situation as I am. Monday night we went ice-skating in Bryant Park (wonderful setting, with views on both the Chrysler and Empire State Building) and tonight we will go bowling and afterwards clubbing. I feel very much a student again (which is not a bad thing)!
In the next posts, I’ll share my first impressions, and maybe some photos once I've had the time to wander around Manhattan!
We arrived on Saturday, jet lag left on Sunday, the furniture arrived on Monday, Internet arrived on Tuesday. And we saw that it was good.
It is a big adaptation and it surely will take a couple of weeks before we are finally settled, but rest assured – we are doing fine in the Big Apple! The transition was not as hard as I feared. The weather in New York is not (yet) harsh, our apartment is stuffed with our old furniture, and we (especially Ward) have been so busy that we have not yet had the time to get homesick!
So far, it has been a great experience even though I have not seen much of Manhattan until now. The Columbia Better Halves Club turned out to be a great starting point for me – I’ve already met many “better halves” in the same situation as I am. Monday night we went ice-skating in Bryant Park (wonderful setting, with views on both the Chrysler and Empire State Building) and tonight we will go bowling and afterwards clubbing. I feel very much a student again (which is not a bad thing)!
In the next posts, I’ll share my first impressions, and maybe some photos once I've had the time to wander around Manhattan!
Friday, January 2, 2009
We're gonna be a part of it... New York, New York!
First of all, a HAPPY NEW YEAR! May 2009 be a wonderful and exciting year for all of you, full of surprises and challenges... It sure will be for us!
This is our very last day in Belgium as tomorrow morning we are officially moving to the Big Apple! Tomorrow afternoon (local time), we'll be moving into our new apartment in the Upper West Side - still empty except for one Ikea sleeper still to be assembled (let's pray all the parts are included and fit... otherwise, it will be a very long first night!).
The cable guy (or girl) is installing our Internet and TV in the beginning of next week. So, this blog will be silent for the next couple of days. However, I’m sure we’ll have already lots of stories to tell by the end of next week!
Got to run… still need to stuff piles and piles of clothes into a way too small suitcase!
This is our very last day in Belgium as tomorrow morning we are officially moving to the Big Apple! Tomorrow afternoon (local time), we'll be moving into our new apartment in the Upper West Side - still empty except for one Ikea sleeper still to be assembled (let's pray all the parts are included and fit... otherwise, it will be a very long first night!).
The cable guy (or girl) is installing our Internet and TV in the beginning of next week. So, this blog will be silent for the next couple of days. However, I’m sure we’ll have already lots of stories to tell by the end of next week!
Got to run… still need to stuff piles and piles of clothes into a way too small suitcase!
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