Wednesday, August 30, 2006

New York...



Today was a pretty cool day, Jeremy and I took the train from Milford all the way in to Grand Central Station New York, it was about 1 hr and 45 min ride, so it did take awhile. We caught the 9:40 am train in, but we were so tired, because the night before we were supposed to pick someone up from the aiport (JFK) which is almost an hour and ahalf away, but the person never showed, he was supposed to be there at 12:10 am, so at 1:30 am, we fought our way out of the severe traffic, (Who'd have thought at 1 am we'd wait 45 min, just to get to the terminal to pick him up?!) and didn't get home till 3. Then I had a terrible night coughing and barely slept at all. I got up at 6 and went for a walk and got some coffee and walked some more. So you can imagine I'm pretty beat now after just getting home!

Anyways, Grand Central Station was pretty cool, it was very big, I didn't quite expect it to be that big. After we went to Times Square, I don't think I've ever seen 6 story TV screens before, it was pretty crazy. We walked for a while, stopped at a few store, Toys R Us even has an indoor ferris wheel, pretty much every store there was over the top, but it was cool to check them out.

In Central Park
Then we walked to Central park where we didn't spend too much time, just had a little walk, checked out the squirrels and headed onto trump towers where I had a lively chat with good 'ole Don about my portfolio, he was pretty impressed, too impressed in fact, I ended up having to fire him. It got kind of messy, but it just wasn't working out.You're Fired!

Sell Sell Sell!!!We then moseyed on over to Wall St. where I advised some traders to check out Alhambra Resources on the TSX, we talked a bit about the 4X market and the conversation just went downhill from there. I'll not say it got physical, but I am a bit sore. Some fool also let a wild bull out, I had to take charge and tame the beast, turns out, all he wanted was a oversized soft pretzel.

We spent a good deal of time on the subway, being packed into them with a bunch of sweaty people isn't quite as glamourous as I once thought...

We ended our day out by checking out the city hall buildings and the courthouses, oh and I did catch a glimmer of the Empire State Building between some others...

In conclusion, I discovered New York is a pretty big place, in the hours we were there, I think we pretty much saw everything there is to see, but I'm sure if I had another week, I could find something else to go see.

Tomorrow I'm leaving early on a bus for New Hampshire to begin the internship program, it'll be another good day of traveling so I'd appreciate your prayers for my health, as I've had a wicked cough today, it's really bad, and very difficult to sleep at nights with it. So I'd really like to get a good nights sleep because I haven't had once in a while.

Thanks for your prayers...

3 comments :

  1. Anonymous said...

    Hey Dustin, great pic's, and i enjoyed the commentary. I'm glad you were able to tame that bull! At first I thought you were talking about a bull market at the stock exchange. prayin for thee!

  2. Denise said...

    Hey Dustin
    ahhhhhhhhhhh you have a blog :-D
    Be praying for you while you are at streams, hey if you meet a crazy slightly hippieish lady called Crystal(she takes streams classes once in a while) that's my friend and you'll totally meet Satt and his wife, though they might not remember me that well, then again maybe they will!

    AHHHHHHHH I'm so jealous that you are in NH! You lucky sod, I'm back home, Which is all good! But dang it, enjoy every second of it!

  3. Anonymous said...

    Dustin it was great to have you. i am sorry you weren't feeling well at the end. i really enjoyed you visiting. when rach and i get married you will have to come stay in our house. I am glad you tamed that wild bull. it was comming right for me. if you were not there i might have died! Anyways thanks for comming out and i will definatly be praying for your cough. don't need that to start off your school. Talk to you later bro
    Jeremy!