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No free food on the flight. That I expected, so I had dinner at McDonald's. However, I didn't expect no free drinks. Even water cost $2. This is unacceptable. I will never take a US Airways flight anymore. This flight was too long. My mp3 player rolled back to the very first song. I was bored by the camera's games. I used up my laptop's battery. The plane was still not going to land. How huge is the US! The seats were extremely uncomfortable, so I couldn't fall asleep. I felt so exhausted until I saw the bright hotels on Las Vegas. Apparently the airport is not far from the Strip. I could see all those familiar hotels during the landing: Luxor Hotel, MGM, Mandalay Bay... Getting out of the plane, we saw a lot of slot machines in the airport, performing all the familiar slot machine music. This is a genius design. People transferring from Las Vegas can start gambling right out of the plane, without even walking out of the airport. I wondered how many people lost all of their money here in the last minute of their trips in Las Vegas. After a 6-hour flight, we were still not home. We had to catch the next flight home so we didn't have time to play with these slot machines. Otherwise since I was too exhausted, I would have gambled $1. In case I won big money, I would stay in Las Vegas for a night. Soon the next flight took off. The resplendent hotels with the heavy traffic Strip disappeared under the clouds. 2 hours later, sweet home. Adjusted the watch for California time. The 3 hours transfered from 2008 to 2009, were so tiring.
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Quincy Market
lobster roll and clam chowder
turkey and ham
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World War II Victim Memorial
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"John Harvard" statue
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Xi's lobster
my lobster
lobster claw
I'm done with my lobster.
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Niagara River and Niagara Falls City in Canada
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Niagara Falls City in Canada
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glass pot
glass fruits
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↓↓Milton S. Hershey↓↓
↑↑Milton S. Hershey↑↑
↓↓take a train to watch Hershey's chocolate production procedures↓↓
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↑↑Apollo Landing Capsule↑↑
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White House
Washington Monument viewing from White House
United States Capitol
Washington Monument viewing from United States Capitol
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Abraham Lincoln Memorial
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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↓↓Self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh↓↓
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Entrance of Wall Street
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Hotel
Harbor
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Fork artist in front of the Met. Everything is made of forks.
I'm mostly interested in the Möbius strip.
The Met
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Hemp fabrics thousands of years ago
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Headquarters of Bank of America
↓↓Headquarters of JPMorgan Chase↓↓
↑↑Headquarters of JPMorgan Chase↑↑
Headquarters of Hilton
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It's not safe to stay late outside. We went back to hotel after quickly finishing dinner at McDonald's.
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↑↑On the way back, we passed by Grand Central Terminal again↑↑
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A Christmas tree
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I like this picture in the subway very much. The author is Philippe Lechien.
Taking a look at his website, I find a lot of his woks very interesting.
Subway station
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There's a huge crowd in the MoMA. On the first floor, a window was showing all sorts of red posters, fliers, pokers, etc. from Chairman Mao's era. Oh, man. These things were treated as "modern art" by Americans.
↓↓All sorts of red posters, fliers, pokers, etc. from Chairman Mao's era↓↓
↑↑All sorts of red posters, fliers, pokers, etc. from Chairman Mao's era↑↑
It took a long time to buy the tickets and deposit our backpacks before we could finally get in. Among so many art works, I was able to appreciate only a few. Most of them really suck, in my opinion. Some steel wires were randomly put together and counted as art. On the 2nd floor, some subjectless, if not disgusting, animations were being projected on the walls with some weird noise. Man they could call that art. One thing really worth seeing was van Gogh's painting gallery. Before, I hadn't liked van Gogh's paintings much, but after this trip, his paints looked more and more amazing to me.
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