Where on earth..?

Time.. where did it all go?

My last week in NY was, as I already pointed, more or less relaxing and trying to slow down the phase of travel. I had such a great time shopping and enjoying the great food and all the entertainment only New York can offer.

On the last wednesday I went to see the Broadway musical called Mamma mia! It's all about ABBA music and I can tell you I enjoyed every moment of the show. Perhaps the most impressive moment was when the lead singer (performing as the mother of the bride) performed the song "The Winner Takes It All". For the first time in my life I witnessed how the whole audience was silenced after the song. There is no feeling like the one heartbeat of silence after the music fade away. Everyone in the audience were stunned by the power of the performance and then the following applause broke into furious burst of exitement. It is something to remember on the years to come.

I spent my last night of my journey with Carina and we had a private "*sniff* party" with bad bad deli food (our own inside joke after the excellent dinner we had in Little Italy - the delifood you get in NY is great!). The night was topped with a visit to one of the Broadway comedy clubs. Beside the sad tone of my departure on the following morning I had a great time with Carina and we could spend my last hours together.

On the mornign of my departure I was awakened by the alarmclock, after excess sleep of half an hour ;-) The rude wakeup was followed by more or less 35 hours of travel from NY to SF then back to the eastcoast and over the Atlantic to London and Tampere - where I finaly had my first good night of sleep. On the following morning I had to drive to Helsinki where I could finaly heave a sigh and note my return home. Total travel time from NY to Helsinki was 52 hours including the night in Tampere. You don't want to try it yourself!

posted by Raine @ 10:18 AM