Day 40

The drying and bagging continues. My mom packed away my phone charger yesterday and my phone died last night. It's been surprisingly unproductive for me. This morning was the Mini-Bomb longboard race hosted by Concrete Kings. I wanted Kristin to do it with me, but she had to go home, and Also I had a dentist appointment like RIGHT after, so I wouldn't be able to join the festivities.

We had breakfast at.... you guessed it, Elephant Castle! Hahaha. And I had...... yeah, that too! A pot of English Breakfast hahahaha. Had the Mexican omelette, sans bacon. It was still pretty heavy, and I wasn't too fond of the cheddar in it, it was too sharp. My parents' favorite server Brian was off this week.

After breakfast we went back to the apartment to chill for a little, then my mom and I went to the dentist. On the way there, we stopped at some new (looking) Vietnamese(?) place for some bubble tea. I won't be going back. 1) The staff's children seem to think the entire establishment was a playground, and one little girl even had sandals with squeakers in the sole, so she was squeaking everywhere, 2) service is REALLY slow, and they have one person only designated for drinks, 3) They gave me Vietnamese coffee, with no bubbles. The coffee was decent though. I got a cap for one of my front teeth that got chipped somehow. All my family members and close friends have been bugging me about it. I also got my teeth cleaned. My mom had the appointment right after mine, so she gave me her Blackberry so I could go on Facebook, since my phone was dead.

After the dentist, we walked towards Broadway on Canal and got a phone charger for $5 from a street vendor. I didn't have my phone on me and I was really unsure of the charger I needed, but one of the guys manning the stand was really helpful and knew that the Verizon Voyager was the VX 10000. Weird, but cool. Then we went to some bootleg-ish luggage place on Broadway and Canal. It was bootleg-ish because it had some cheap (and obviously) fake luggage in the front, and in the back they had these expensive $300+ brand name luggage, Samsonite, Burton, North Face... yeeesh. One of the Burtons looked REALLY nice, but I'll probably end up getting something cheap for $30 or so.

THENNN we started walking up Broadway, stopped at places like Muji (very cool minimalist stuff from Japan... I have a watch from them), TopShop (like an English H&M), H&M (had this AMAZING blazer. Very Gaga.), Duane Reade (found the lotion my dermatologist recommended), Rite Aid (Did not have said lotion), Old Navy (very disorienting, to say the least), and a bunch of shoe stores.

We ducked into some side street and went into a jewelery store called Versani... it was really cool. A lot of expensive things. I saw a little dachshund pendant that Kristin would like. :) I'm sure it would be $300+ though. Just for the doggy. Which is the size of my pinky fingernail.

My mom couldn't resist going into any shoe boutique we passed so it did take a little while longer than I hoped to get home. We did stop at a Starbucks to use their facilities though, and a stop at Gray's Papaya for some.. er, "Papaya Drink". I have never figured out what the hell one of those were, but they're still good and refreshing when you've walked from Chinatown back to the West Village on a 90+ day.

Got home, made a pot of tea, and finished drying the last of my clothes. Ughh this bedbug business is crazy.

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