The day started off pretty well. Subway sandwich for breakfast, tasty and nutritious! Whop whop! Topping that off, we got handed free money on the street. Obama on the bill, a million dollars? Hey wait a minute! This is more fake then monopoly money :(

Two subway rides later we're in lower east side manhattan. Awesome map navigation by Oyvind ensured us a quick trip from the subway to the gallery. Even though 2 out of 3 floors of the gallery were shut down due to maintenance, we payed up and strolled in.

The coolest thing inside was the live art. Live art, you say? Indeed!, I say. In the middle of the gallery, there was a white bed, with white sheets and a girl sleeping in it. Apparently she is fed a bunch of sleeping pills, transforming her into 'live art'. A real life sleeping beauty. A Chinese dude got this brilliant idea back in '77. Sounds like the best job ever to me! Id sleep the hell out of that bed, but apparently you have to be a woman.

Other slight interesting stuff where introduction videos of random MySpace profiles taken out of context and clipped together. "PLZ comment on my picturez!1" I wont go into more detail on that one. 

Next stop was a floor with a live archive of the most important happenings from 1970ish to today. The chairs were the best thing there. Comfy!

Bing! Elevator arrived!  We went to the top floor, the observation deck, or something, which gave us a pretty nice overview of the surrounding neighborhood. We snapped of a few pictures.

Fast forwarding a bit, we're outside in the park, watching a local basketball game. Fun stuff. Except for sucking at free throws, they were very good! Also, commentator-dude with the megaphone was pretty funny. Ghetto slang, and all.

Time is about 4 p.m., we head back in to town (after taking the subway further away from the city of course, realizing we're heading into Brooklyn (I blame the dude with the glasses :P)).

After exiting the subway in Time Square, we're greeted by 5 fire trucks blasting their sirens. As the cam whores we are, we exploited the opportunity to pose by the trucks. Red and shiny! Then we found a park, got chased off the grass for some reason, and went home and took a nap (sweet relief).

In the last chapter of the day, we went to a Brazilian restaurant and ordered some proper food for once. Pretty nice! Also, hot fire sprouting plate on the table = no touchy.  After emptying our pockets, leaving a mountain of single dollar bills, we go back to the hostel where we randomly meet up with Alyssa who just arrived. She's a crazy dance girl from Canada we met the first day, with a hate for Pringles so great, it threatens our very existence.

Tired from all the walking, the rest of the evening we hang out in the lounge with a few other people staying in the hostel. Thats a wrap!

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