Yesterday, I went on a whirlwind tour of NYC. And right now, I’m totally wiped out. My energy reserved has been drained. The two cups of coffee yesterday, didn’t do diddly to keep me up. Guess, I must accept the fact I’m getting old. Soon, you’ll see this short little asian girl trouncing around the city in a walker. ha ha ha. That must be sight to be seen. Perhaps. Okay, I’m being a little bit more melodramatic.

Here are the sites we hit:
• Rockefeller Center and the Tree
• Time Square
• Empire State Building
• Dim Sum in Chinatown at Tai Hong Lau
• Little Italy
• Ground Zero
• Tram to Roosevelt Island
• Lombardi’s for Pizza

In the end everyone was totally wiped out. I was a bit sad when I went to Ground Zero. I’ve passed by it many times in the past year. But I still get disturbed by the kind of tourist attraction it has become. It’s a bit of a circus with scam artist, pick pocketers, and just people trying to turn a profit off a dime. For god sakes, it’s a cementary. I’ve been fortunate enough to have not known anyone who has died because of the incident directly. But it is still sad. I can understand why people go to the platform for solace. And why they might have a need to take pictures of the site. I get so upset when people pose for pictures in front of the site smiling. There is just something so wrong about that. Do I feel this way, because I was in NY when this all happened. Or it’s just wrong.

All in all, I was a pretty productive day. My cousin Jason sort of became the accidental tourist. He’s never done the tourist thing. So it was quite interesting to watch him snap pictures like the many tourist that populate our great city this time of year.