Saara came for a visit

Last sunday my old friend Saara Kivelä started her 13th au pair month as known as "travel month" from NYC and we decided to spend a day together in the Big Apple. Back in Finland Saara and I spent all of our 12 school years in the same schools in Varkaus and 6 of them in a same class. I never was so close to her but I have always liked her very much :)

In the City we found and lost a lots of things and one thing was this.. thing. We were really looking for SoHo but I gues my compass just failed me that time. 

One thing we wondered about NYC was how freaking cold it was that day!! The coldness drove me to make an allowance to buy some other jacket than the perfect biker jacket I've been endlessly searching. So I bought this classy Tommy Hilfiger jacket (kind of bad picture but it really looks good). Though expensive it was! Price of 225$ made me think twice or maybe even four times if to buy this jacket.. And of course the tax. The common enemy of all in the USA. But everything ended up quite well when I made some small talk with the salesman and asked how much the price would be WITH the tax. He told me it would be 248$ and I made a bad face. Then he started to talk me with a really low voice mumbling something about "fixing" and finally I bought the jacket with price of 220$. And that's with a tax! Fixing prices seems to work in top-name stores too..  :D

In the evening we went to see a broadway classic Chicago. It was the very first time to see a musical in the NYC for both of us and quite a good start kick for me. I gues broadway musical can't get much more classical. We really enjoyed the show! I recommend to everybody who likes musicals. And we were very lucky to get the tickets for such cheap price. We went to buy the tickets in the afternoon of the same day and got these "RUSH tickets" for only 31,50$ each. In the evening lining to get in I asked the ladys behind us how much they had paid for their tickets: "My husband paid 141,50$ for each." And for the most of the musicals it doesn't really matter which seat you have. The theathers are so small that every seat is a good seat.

Sometimes it can be hard to find a place who serves me beer but this time we got lucky in a third. I gues this cute baby faced finn didn't help on that :P

PS. Saara said that she looked like she would be going to the Ruka and I basically looked like a jew. So we were the jew and the eskimo for that day. What a dual! Oh man we laughed a lot for that. Later on that night some real jew walked by us and the old man looked me for long. So I decided to greet him and he greeted me back so eagerly :D