NYC - Day 4

Woke up late at around 10 this morning and finished my HTML homework and quiz online, submitted it, then got out of bed. We got ready quickly and headed out around 11, took the bus and train to Brooklyn to go climbing at BKB.

Brooklyn Boulders is a very cool place. It has about as many top rope walls as Aiguille, but it has sooo much more bouldering. Every wall and nook of the place is for bouldering. It is a newer place, and they decked it out with graffiti and such to try and give it an authentic feel. There is definitely something to say about the employees lack of communication with customers regarding their safety policies, though... Aiguille beats them on that front. But that's another story.

At 4pm we left and headed back towards Manhattan to get bus tickets at the Port Authority for snowboarding on Sunday. On the way back we stopped at York Street and walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, then took the train to Penn Station. Walking out of Penn we asked a cop for directions to 40th St., which she kindly gave, and as we walked away we came upon a group of guys arguing and completely taking up the whole path. I was already right on top of them as it started to escalate so I tried to push past quickly to avoid anything. As I did I got pressed against the wall by one of them unknowingly and noticed one of them was interested in opening some cardboard boxes... Yeah, we moved quickly after that... The cop didn't even seem to notice them.

Pizza and Panini's for dinner. The waitress at the place was cute, and mentioned to Reuben about the creepy guy in line before us, and how he had tried some stupid one-liners on her before and stuff. He seemed like the type that goes there all the time just because of her, but in a creepy way. He looked like 40. The girl was in her 20's. I'm sure she gets that a lot.

After we saw The Adjustment Bureau at the AMC Loews. It was interesting and pretty good, though definitely did not live up to the quotes on the trailers that it is "better and more thought provoking than Inception." This movie was good, but it had to narratively state its message at some points throughout the film, whereas Inception was brilliant enough where everything it portrayed and made you think about came naturally and by perception. So whoever originally said that quote was an idiot.

Home now. Watched some Whose Line? and Family Guy with Reuben, and now I'm off to sleep. Headed to Central Park tomorrow.