Hot Child in the City

Day Twenty-Nine

Saturday was a busy day for us. We didn't get out of here until 3.00 because Elke had to do laundry before we could leave. But as soon as she was dressed we headed off to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.

The museum turned out to be a lot cooler than any of us thought it would be. The first floor had an exhibit about the evolution of video games, which was basically a free arcade. They had Pacman and Ms. Pacman and Dance Dance Revolution and Half-Life and Donkey Konga Drummer and NBA Jam and Asteroids and all sorts of things. It was so fun. I wish we had gotten there earlier - I could have spent all day in there. But eventually it was time to move onto the rest of the museum.

There was other cool stuff in the rest of the museum - the Yoda puppet, Chewbacca's head, some Cosby sweaters, old cameras and TVs, old campaign ads. The whole place was really cool. They also had interactive exhibits in which you could add music to a scene or create an animated cartoon South Park style (think construction paper).

After we were done there, we were all starving. None of us had eaten much yet that day. We went to a Greek pizza place in Astoria. It wasn't very good, but it was cheap and it was food, so we didn't really mind much.

There was only one other thing I wanted to see in Queens, and that was the Socrates Sculpture Park. But when we got there there was a group of hippies having a picnic and all the sculptures were locked behind a gate half-finished and rusty. I guess it's a collaborative artistic thing and we caught it at a bad time or something.

We didn't want to stay in Queens, but we didn't want to go home either, so we just hopped on the train and got off near Union Square. We actually ended up in the East Village, so we headed to Karma and smoked a hookah and had a drink or two. Then we tried to visit Shannon at Snitch, but she was really busy because 311 was playing that night. So then we called Sarah, a girl Elke met in one of her classes. She lived right near where we were, so we went to her apartment to hang out.

We spent the rest of the evening hanging out there. Garrett and I went down the street and got some beer and they drank their beer and we all had a jolly good time. Before we knew it, it was 3.00 in the morning and we were stuck somewhere in Chelsea. So we waited for a bit for the train to come and came home and went straight to bed.

posted by Megan @ 12:09 AM