Note: this is about the remainder of my 8-day vacation out east. Seems weird it just got cut off after day 2, but when the plan to write about day 3 gets shot down due to a lack of wi-fi until getting to the Canadian border, subsequently getting sick, and swarmed with lots of things to complete doesn’t really help.

Before heading out to Manhattan on the last day in New York, we had some dim sum with my distant relative. The place was mediocre at best unfortunately, although it may have been because the place just opened for the day.

Once in South Manhattan, we got on the Staten Island Ferry to see the on-water sights like the Statue of Liberty. People would probably tell you to go to Ellis Island to see the statue up close, but due to a lack of time and a stupidly long lineup to get onto the ferry tour to go there, we decided to take the free way to see the Statue of Liberty, although a bit far away.

After the ferry ride, we wandered around 7th Avenue for a bit before ending up at Macy’s at Herald Square. It’s a huge store, with somewhere around eight floors of retail space. I don’t remember much except for the fact that I was starting to get tired, so I went to one of the four (?) Starbucks they have inside the store and had some coffee.

After that, we got some dinner, grabbed our things, and got onto a yellow cab taxi-van to the bus terminal. Holy crap was that a scary ride.

In any case, we got to the bus terminal, a three-story high complex similar to an airport, sans the security. The bus, from what I gathered from the staff guy, was MIA, so they eventually got a replacement bus for us. Not the Megabus we were on to get to NYC, but whatever. A bus is a bus, and that will get us back to Toronto.

We got back to Toronto with little incident. Amusingly enough, at the border, we had to wait on the bus for 30 minutes because we got in after a shopping tour bus, which had so many shopping bags it was ridiculous. When we all got out of customs and hopped onto the bus, that bus still didn’t leave yet because they were trying to reload the bus and failing.

Now that we were back in Toronto, there wasn’t really much. Saying hi to relatives, including my aunt from Virginia, who drove up to Toronto. Several noteworthy things:

• Did a phone interview for a potential co-op job for Winter (Spring semester) on Friday
• Did some sightseeing at Scarborough Bluffs/Bluffer’s Park. Absolutely remarkable view.
• Flight out of Toronto was delayed for around two hours due to back-to-back thunderstorms near the airport.

So that, in a nutshell, was the remainder of the trip.

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