NYC Buildings - Chrysler Building

Since moving to NYC I have found a new appreciation for the beautiful buildings in this city. My favorite by far is the Chrysler Building. This building is not the tallest in the city, but by far the most beautiful in the daylight and nighttime. I have slight view of the building from my apartment and whenever I leave, I look up to see what the the building looks like in the different times of day. Everywhere I go, I look for the Chrysler Building as a landmark for where I live. I am going to post a few of my recent pics and will keep posting them as I take them.

I went to Mexico.....

A couple of weeks ago I went to Mexico.....Cancun..actually Riveria Maya to be exact. This is the area about 1 hour south of Cancun near the town of Playa del Carmen. We stayed at an all inclusive (Sandos Caracol Spa and Resort)...thanks to my government stimulus check..the trip was all paid for! After a long hot summer in NYC, I could not wait to get to my favorite vacation activity....nothing! I love to sit under the umbrella looking out over the ocean and just relaxing, with a beverage and a good book (or trash magazine as Sally and I call them) By the end of my vacation I am usually up to date with all of the Hollywood set and who they are sleeping, partying or living with. This trip was a tad bit tooo short for me...We left on Sunday and came home on Thursday.

As you will see I am not in any of the pics...I promise I did go, but I had a slight problem. On Monday morning I woke up with swollen eyes...so swollen that my eyelid could feel my brow bone. No....not too much tequila. I had an allergic reaction to something. 1. Seafood, 2. Kiwi fruit, 3. Sunshine. I do not think it was the sun, but either number 1 or 2. So because of said swollen eyes I stayed out of the pics and covered by my big black sunglasses.

To the surprise of my friends there was not an abundance of Americans at our resort. I think Canada had the lead with a combination of European Countries a close second. Cancun was built in the early 1970s for the Americans, but many other people have found it to be a great place to vacation. I wish I could vacation like a European. They take two weeks at minimum! Now that is a vacation!

Chairs

Walking home a few weeks ago, I noticed that an office building was changing out their furniture. There were about 100 or so chairs lined up on the sidewalk ready to go to the warehouse or be thrown away. Last night walking home from work I saw a lady sleeping in an office chair on the corner of Lexington an 45th near my building. She was parked right under a tree next to a planter. I looked a Jeremy and commented that I did not remember a bench being on our corner? Obviously it was a 'mobile' bench. This morning when I was out running errands I walked past the corner and saw the chair abandoned on the corner next to the planter. The lady had left the chair. A couple of hours later, I saw the 'change cup' guy that hangs outside the McDonalds relaxing in the same chair, up the street outside the McDonalds...still shaking his change cup. I guess the chair has become a fixture of the neighborhood for those that need to take a load off their feet. Even later this afternoon I was walking home and what did I see, but another guy, relaxing and reading a book in an office chair right on the street, I could not help but laugh to myself....then I took a picture to document this funny sight. I also went back to the original chair, but it was not occupied, but waiting for the next person to use.