Yo, yo, yo... Kickin' it in the N-Y-C... Brooklyn Style!

So, my time in New York has been fun - I LOVE this city!! I flew in last night and spent the day at the British consulate, then wandered around the city. The Entrance Visa was fairly painless - just a long line to stand in - but once I was up to the window (they do everything behind thick plastic/glass in NYC) it went fairly quickly. I had to return to pick up my passport (with the Visa stamp in the back), so I found a neat little park around the corner, ate a bite of lunch and read a book my sister suggested, "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World," by Haruki Murakam (I like it so far - a little out there, but good). Once I picked up my Visa, my sister called to meet her on her lunch-break, so I took the train down to City Hall and met her for a little while. I decided that it might be a good idea to enter England with a few pounds in my pocket, so I rode back up to the British consulate to get some currency (my sister and I tried at her bank, but they said that it'd take three days to order currency). The BC is at 51st street, we were about 65 blocks away. I spent the rest of the afternoon, wandering around Union Square, then headed home. We rode into Williamsburg (the hip area of Brooklyn) for dinner and I got this wonderful Brooklyn Industries (great clothing company!) bag for England. It was a great way to spend my last night in the states...

Typing that, it has finally dawned on me that I am hopping a plane for England tomorrow. It still doesn't seem real to me.