The only way for me to catch up to the present, is to take the short-cut and do condensed entries and try to breeze through as quickly as possible what I have been up to.
I went to Brooklyn Bridge last month (and had planned to walk across it but it was like 100F out in the soon so as soon as my and my friends got to the 1st pillar of the bridge on the Manhattan side, we hid in the shade and went no further). This was also about the time when Israel started the bombing of Lebanon so there was a protest march across the bridge when my friends and I were there.
I also visited Coney Island last month. I had a vision of Melbourne's Luna Park in my mind for some reason. It was way bigger and much more alive and packed full of families (school holiday hasn't ended yet), tourists, street performers and beach-goers.
Different food, drink and souvenior stores dotted along the Broadwalk, seperating the beach and the amusement park itself. The famous Cyclone - the first wooden roller-coaster in the world - can be seen from afar. It looked a lot like the Luna Park rollercoaster except 5 times bigger and looking more likely to fall apart (there was apparently an accident not that long ago where one of the roller-carts actually came flying out from the rail and crashed into the carpark below and people were killed so this wasn't a very good joke for me to crack actually).
The other famous thing at Coney Island is of course Nathan's Hot Dog. This is where the annual hot dog eating competition is held in the summer. The 2006 champion Takeru Hobayashi ate 53.75 hot dog in 12 minutes. I am still wondering how he could POSSIBLY (physically) have 53 susages and hot dog buns put into his body - he is skinny as!! Well let's just say, we did not break any record that day eating Nathan's hot dogs (except probably the Single Most Photographed Hot Dog that day...)
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