French Ladies and monsters

Pff, I have had a busy week and I didn't even plan on it. Let's start with last weekend. We went to the Highline (a park built on a former elevated train track) and I am pretty sure that we set the record for slowest time getting there. We arrived at Union square around two and it should take about half an hour to get to the park. We arrived at the Highline at six. It took us four frigging hours to get there. No, we did not get lost. Fact is that we were with a group that wanted to stop at every shop and thus it took us four hours. Luckily we were just in time to see the sunset and the park was very pretty. We had some food at a Italian restaurant and then I went back. After my weekend I made some new friends, although new isn't quite the right word. I already knew Victoria (she's in my SPIN-class) and Alexandra (who is in my regular class), but this week I hung out with them a lot. We went to EF's Halloween party on Thursday and had a lot of fun even though around ten we were interrupted by the fire alarm. God, how we love that fire alarm (sigh). Because I didn't want to use my "costume" for Friday I used a make-up look from YouTube and it turned out quite O.K. Victoria and Alex were pretty scary. Friday Alex, Louise, Victoria and I went to the Halloween Parade in NYC. We saw so many people in awesome costumes. E.g. minions, geishas, white women, taxis, team rocket, clowns (freaking clowns, man) and much more. We walked in the parade as well and everyone wanted to take pictures of Alexandra, because she was dressed up as Batgirl. We even met a stuttering Batman that said: "I s-s-supose t-there i-is n-ne-need f-for m-m-more than o-one b-b-bat." There was also a tower that had tentacles coming out of the windows and the tentacles were moving! We ate at the Hardrock Café and had the worst waiter in the history of waiters. He managed to get us the wrong order not one, not two, but three times. The food was good though and when we went outside we discovered that it was raining like crazy. So instead of walking we took the subway to Grand Central and went home. Today I finally got to see the Statue of Liberty (a,k.a the French Lady and Miss Liberty). I went with Nelly and Henriette and I swear that if I got a dollar for every time that Henriette says: "It's an adventure." I would be rich right now. We took some awesome photo's and had to revive Nelly because, being from Mexico, she wasn't used to the cold and was only wearing a sweater when it was 3 degrees Celcius (I refuse to use Farenheit). We went to Ellis Island as well and I found my last name in the book with the last names of all American immigrants (couldn't find mum's name though). After that we went to see the bull on Wallstreet, Because it was so cold we drank something at Starbucks and bought gloves at the H&M. I bought headphones for me and Thijs too. That's pretty much it, enjoy the pictures, because they rock!

Yours truly,