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A buddhist temple in LA somewhere near Monteray / Chinatown area.
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Kodak theatre for Cirque du soleil - Iris (pronounced yee-reese)
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Bo and Prachi at the top of the hike in Malibu
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Parking meters accept credit cards!!! As Prachi said, this is LA! Everything is plastic!" :p
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Halloween in LA - "What do you want?" "Cookies!" "When do you want them?" "Now!!"
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At some bar with Gayan and Bo. Bo had gone to a concert and Gayan went to get some shabu shabu (after a 1.5 hrs wait!!).
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Was watching Food Network: Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and heard about Bratz Brothers in Sherman Oaks where Bo lives so I dragged people with me to go try the food there.
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Celebrating Kathryn's birthday at Union League Cafe, New Haven CT.
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Castle (more like a midget castle) at the top of the hike at Meriden, CT.
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Kathryn and I at the castle
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On our way back, crossing one of the streams.
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We waited outside in the cold for 45 mins for this pizza!! Look at the size of the pizza! We actually ate 75% of it.
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Did about a 2 mile roundtrip hike at River Mianus (yeah yeah my-anus)
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Lyle with his windex to clean the inside windshield. Had met up with Lyle quickly at Northampton, MA (about 1.5 hrs drive straight north from New Haven).
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My new favourite freeway to drive in the US - Merritt Parkway. Isn't it pretty?
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Great to see Sonia again. We were at Shake Shack in Westport, CT.
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Highline park in NYC. It's built on part of an old elevated, abandoned railway tracks in the meatpacking district. See the old railway tracks?
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Kat at one of the sitting areas along the park. This one had a "window" for people to watch the traffic go by. The seating area is pretty cool - benches but the pathways are sloped to act as ramps.
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"Lounge chairs" for folks to rest their feet and enjoy the view of Hudson River. Some of the "chairs" can slide along the rail tracks.
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Me at another "rest stop"
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Section of bird boxes.
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Kat and I
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Kat and I under a hotel along the park. We can actually wave "hi" to the hotel guests.
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Chocolate show 2011 fashion designs. Well, some of them.
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Some carving at the chocolate show
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Kat with Cupcake Wars star Florian Bellanger.
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Me getting a book signed by oooh forgot his name. Wait ... Johnny Iuzzini
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Dinner with Sunil, Dolly and Saloni.
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Lunch downtown with Amy and Lakshmi
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Jenn and I outside 1 CMP.
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Went to the museum of moving images: Jim Henson exhibit. Miss Piggy!!
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And Rowlf!
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One of the characters from Dark Crystal. Didn't know Jim Henson was behind this show until I went to see the exhibit.
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Walked around Central Park my last day in NYC. This is one of my favourite trees.
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Can't remember the significance of this place but it looked really quaint. This is at Pioneer Square.
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Still at Pioneer Square. Can't figure out why they have knits around the trees. Keeping the trees warm, perhaps?
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Trees I can understand IF I really stretch it. But lamp posts?!?!?! Je ne comprends pas.
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Checked out some glass blowing. This is around the park where there's a dedication to UPS. UPS started in Seattle with 2 guys and 2 bikes or so I'm told.
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Pikes Place
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Part of the underground tour. What you're seeing used to be the storefront of shops.
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Original Seattle sewage pipe. That is the main pipe for 500 households. Yeah, it's not big enough.
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Taking the bus back to where I was staying at. They have buses running underground. Very curious!
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Me at the first starbucks store. The only one I know where there is no seating.
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The "dirtiest" tourist attraction in Seattle - the gum wall. Gross!!
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Joy and I
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This guy is very creative. If you can't see properly, it's a person in a wheelchair.
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