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All Hallow's Eve
Nov. 1st, 2007 08:21 amLast night was my first Halloween Parade ever in the city. I must say it was a bit disappointing. The interesting parts were getting pissed at two stupid cops, I had two different confrontations with people on the street in two different lAnguages, the parking meters on 7th Ave weren't being monitored, and even though we got bad service at the restaurant later, the waiter ran out to give me my camera that I'd forgotten on the table,
The first irritating police officer was at the subway station. He told me I had to walk all the way around the block to get 5 feet away from where I came out of the station; within 5 feet of walking away from him and in plain sight of him, I walked across a different street and back to where we'd been standing within 5 seconds - I think that's why people get angry at cops - when they say things to provoke. The other irritating cop walked in front of us within 5 feet of his original spot the whole time at the parade - intentionally getting into almost each of our pictures! He even had a smirk on his face a couple of times!!
French people on vacation are VERY rude, but the Swiss on vacation are very pleasant. I met pleasant, friendly, annoying and downright rude people last night. But in the end I'm glad I went.
The parade is up above your head with lots of puppets and very few floats. That would have made it easy to photo except that my camera wasn't acting right and the batteries were dying. Plus with the cop in front of me the whole time and in every shot I took of costumes, after 30 minutes, I was done.
We went to dinner at Sevilla and it was very good. On the way home, Matt mentioned the event we're going to tonight to benefit GMHC of NYC with Tim Gunn, Michael Kors, and a number of other NYC designers. Should be fun.
The first irritating police officer was at the subway station. He told me I had to walk all the way around the block to get 5 feet away from where I came out of the station; within 5 feet of walking away from him and in plain sight of him, I walked across a different street and back to where we'd been standing within 5 seconds - I think that's why people get angry at cops - when they say things to provoke. The other irritating cop walked in front of us within 5 feet of his original spot the whole time at the parade - intentionally getting into almost each of our pictures! He even had a smirk on his face a couple of times!!
French people on vacation are VERY rude, but the Swiss on vacation are very pleasant. I met pleasant, friendly, annoying and downright rude people last night. But in the end I'm glad I went.
The parade is up above your head with lots of puppets and very few floats. That would have made it easy to photo except that my camera wasn't acting right and the batteries were dying. Plus with the cop in front of me the whole time and in every shot I took of costumes, after 30 minutes, I was done.
We went to dinner at Sevilla and it was very good. On the way home, Matt mentioned the event we're going to tonight to benefit GMHC of NYC with Tim Gunn, Michael Kors, and a number of other NYC designers. Should be fun.
