This turned out to be one of the more eventful Fourth of Julys I have spent. Nathan and I spent the morning wandering around the southern end of Manhattan, near Wall Street. We stopped to rest near a fountain, and noticed that there were a lot of large trailers parked around. Barely had we started to wonder what they could be for when Hugh Laurie stepped out of one like, right next to us to take a cigarette break (from being awesome, I can only assume. It gets exhausting). He wandered into a building after that with a bunch of security and crew people. Our guess is that he was filming "House." Ahh!
Nathan and I watched the Macy's firework show with roughly all of New York City tonight down by the East River. It was awesome, to say the least. We almost couldn't see the fireworks by the end of the show, there was so much smoke. They were in unusual shapes, too. I've seen the smiley faces before, but cubes? I didn't even know explosions came in prisms.
The downside of the awesomeness was that, well, it was INSANELY CROWDED everywhere we went. I think I've shared sweat with about two thousand people today, give or take a baker's dozen. We managed to stay fairly bruise-and-grope free, although people around us got a little irritated. I heard two fights nearly break out in our near vicinity at different points during the day. And then, of course, there was the people watching.
Overheard in New York: Stereotype Edition
Man on Subway, Wearing Gold Chain and "Mr. Money" Ring: "And I was like, 'Homegirl, if you don't step off I'm going to slap you.'"
I love people. And the Fourth of July.
Three more days until my birthday...
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