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No, not the hard alcohol that only drunk people would want to consume…a real live wild turkey on Lower Manhattan! 

Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Zelda!

Yes, she looks delicious!

Zelda is the resident turkey of Battery Park and I saw her yesterday down by the Sphere and eternal flame at around 5:30 in the afternoon rain. 

I wonder why and how she chose to live down in the park?

I’m still awaiting that fateful day when I stumble across a zebra in Union Square.

Check out this optical illusion…

It looks as though it’s something that hung on the wall and kept my mind occupied throughout high school sequential math, thereby leading to my never actually learning the FOIL method.

In reality, it’s a tight shot of a Wachovia Securities building downtown Manhattan.

My eyes are officially crossed!

I went to the Statue of Liberty for the first time in my life yesterday as part of my Summer of Tourist Eric. 

Despite having grown up here there are a ton of sights that I’ve never been to and it’s about time I have.  I never knew that she was so flat in the butt and breast regions, or that her hands are freakishly large in comparison to her face.

After checking out Liberty Island (and getting a frosty) it looked as though the weather guy on the morning news was correct and that it was going to thunderstorm, twice. 

The first storm came about as low dark clouds began rolling in from New Jersey, lightning and thunder were all overhead so date and I decided to wait it out inside the dry confines of the brick and masonry information building. 

Other tourists rushed to get to the statue so that they could remain dry and “safe” inside of the giant copper statue that also happens to be the tallest object around for thousands of yards!  Yes, you heard correct, they said…

“Hey look, lightning!  We better get inside this giant copper statue for safety!” 

It’s only a matter of time before those very same people win a Darwin Award. 

I had some Tsingtao beer from China yesterday because I was feeling all worldly and when in Rome (or Chinatown)…

And think that it tastes like a non alcoholic version of Heineken. 

My neighbor is in the process of doing some construction on the front of his place and decided to get new planters for his entryway.  This meant that he was getting rid of the 80 plus year old cement planter my neighbor inherited from the previous tenant,knowing my love of gardening and the like, my neighbor offered me up his old cement planter.

Now in part this might sound like a really nice thing for him to have done, but if I did not accept the free offer it would have meant that my neighbor was going to have to take a hammer and chisel to it for a good ten minutes to dismantle it.

Neighbor offered to help lift the 70 or so pound planter to which I wanted none of.  I put on sandals, went to neighbors front garden lifted, and OUCH!!!  The planter scraped along my toenail!

Oh the horror!