Friday: Ritsu went to see a chiropractor to take care of her backpain ... while it has gotten a lot better, a nagging pain remained. And it seems this chiropractor seems to be quite helpful.
In the evening we took a bus over to Hoboken in New Jersey (on the way I noticed the above building on 42nd street, which was not finished when we left NY 7 months ago, and it looks pretty interesting. The area around Times Square has changed quite a bit) to visit our old New York friends Berna and Chris in their new appartment (I love what they did in the bathroom with that plastic crocodile). They were receiving all kinds of mail orders for me, so I was like a little kid on xmas opening up all those neat parcels.
Later Ryan joined us and we went to a german restaurant called "Helmer's Cafe" and though I am usually not a fan of basically all sausage based food, it was very nice !!! We had schnitzels and smoked pork chops and sausage platters, washed it down with nice beers! Very very nice.
We took a bus back around 11:30 and it only took us about 35 minutes door to door to get back to our appartment on the eastside. Below is the nightview over to the eastside .. that red light is a huge Pepsi Cola neon sign (here some history on it) (and here another link).