Grand

It was a bit overcast on Sunday and we didn't have anything big planned and so we headed off aimlessly, going past some police and FBI emergency vehicles and some news crews that were covering the Etan Patz case.
We headed up to Grand Central station for a drink a little people watching.  A beautiful, grand building with seemingly more tourists than travellers, perhaps.  It was fun to walk up along Park Avenue and get a different perspective of the city.
As we left we went through Times Square as - until that point - I had successfully been able to avoid it.  I'm not a huge people person, and I'm not inspired by advertising, and I also am not much of a consumer (I bought a hobo purse from Century 21 and two totally rocking Obey shirts in total while in NYC), so Times Square wasn't top on my list of things to do, but we did it for the experience and so now I can say that I've been there and done that.  What a lot of money and flashing lights and people looking rather stunned - as surely I was too.
I believe this was the day we went to East Sushi which was recommended as cheap, good eats by our handbook and man was it ever.  We had some typical fare: spicy yellow fin tuna maki; salmon maki; a rice bowl; but the the thing that took the cake was the thing that  I pointed to on the menu and informed the waitress "I don't know how to pronounce this, but we want it".  It was okonomiyaki.  I have put a lot of things in my pie hole throughout the course of my life, and this was one of the best things that ever graced my gullet.  I also had a large Sapporo because they were on special.  I had to use two hands to hoist it for the first few sips.  And there was an even larger beer than that and I can't imagine what it came in: a pitcher?
Then we went to Trader Joe's and got some snacks and I went next door to the Trader Joe's wine store and cried at the prices.  $3 for some "Two Buck Chuck".  I upped the ante and bought a Rex Goliath Cabernet Sauvignon that won a gold medal for $5.  Wine in the US retails for roughly half of what it does in Canada.
Once, when I was in Portland, I bought a regular bottle of wine and compared it was some Two Buck Chuck.  The Two Buck Chuck - in my opinion - was excellent.  I just Wikied it and read "at the 28th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition, Shaw's 2002 Shiraz received the double gold medal, besting the roughly 2,300 other wines in the competition.  Shaw's 2005 California chardonnay was judged Best Chardonnay from California at the Commercial Wine Competition of the 2007 California Exposition and State Fair. The chardonnay received 98 points, a double gold, with accolades of Best of California and Best of Class".
Okay.  No more wineing.
This may have also been the night we stayed up until 2am watching "2012" which was one of the worst movies that we had ever seen and I can't recall why we stayed up so late to see it to completion.