Our adventures around town involved walking about 150 blocks, and seeing lots of interesting things and lots of interesting people. Where I'm from the closest record store is at the state's capitol city which is an hour's drive. There are lots of them in NYC, some are 3 or 4 floors of glitz. A good selection of Mariah merchandise as well. One person amongst us bought some really cool records, even though he didn't have a record player. I had enough Mariah stuff for now, but I found a good Bjork CD and a good Jewel CD. When I was in Rochester, I bought the other Mariah album, (there are two albums; same content, different photography layout)

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640 1024 This is one of a couple of group photos in front of the church that Mariah Carey and Tommy were married in. Sorry for the harsh lighting. A flash would have taken care of this, but I was traveling light. I am the one in the green shirt on the right.

640 1024 Another of the same scene. A list of names would be nice. (I'd not be able to make an accurate list myself)

640 1024 This is inside of the Sony building. A very large open space for Sony to present an incredible image to visitors and the public.

640 1024 This is a wide angle shot inside the Sony place. There is a full size aircraft suspended in there, as well as other amusements. Wasn't too much for Mariah fans, but still a neat place.

640 1024 This is from the business lobby of the same Sony building. We were not able to be given a tour, but were able to get directions to the recording studio. There's a yellow cab in the photo. Every other car in town is a cab. Most everything else is either a Lincoln Limo, or a Mercedes.

640 1024 This is outside the recording studio. We were a little imposing when we all ran in there and asked for a tour. The front desk person said her manager would have to decide that and they weren't in today. We stepped otuside, while one person went in and talked a bit more.

640 1024 More of us standing outside making fun of the front desk person's poor excuse.

640 1024 Here we are resting our feet and enjoying lunch in Central Park. We picked up some nice sandwiches from a corner store near Sony's recording studio, and lugged them to Central Park.

640 1024 Same place. Here we are planning our afternoon stops. Or trying to. One fan had sense enough to bring a map of the city. Probably the same person that bought records :-)

Here I changed film and are that roll should be on photoCD at the end of the week. Will keep you posted.

640 1024 Here we approach tower records.

640 1024 After walking about 60 or so blocks, everyone stopped at my hotel room to rest their feet and relax for a short time. This is a pretty nice place, I couldn't afford more than one night here. (The Millenium, a place on 44th st right near broadway.

640 1024 Making a couple of phone calls for evening and next week's plans.

640 1024 The beds were very comfortable, and the view was pretty nice from the 43rd floor. We got about 150 channels, and had a coffee-maker in the bathroom, full size bath, leather chairs, etc...

640 1024 Wandering around the city more. This was tiring but pretty interesting.

640 1024 Crowds and advertising. There's enough spent on advertising in NYC to feed a third world country.

640 1024 More of the same.

640 1024 And more advertising. Every other car was a crown vic taxi. The other half of the cars were buses, Mercedes, and Lincoln Limosines.

640 1024 We wait for a safe moment to cross the street.

640 1024 Here, we were shown the door at the Viacom building on Broadway.

640 1024 This is right beside our table at Planet Hollywood. It's an alien from the films Alien and Aliens. Awesome movies. The atmosphere and service was good at Planet Hollywood, but the food was only OK. We waited about an hour to get in, but it was worth it.

640 1024 This was what made it worth it. This is the blue battle axe from Last of the Mohicans. LOTM is one of my all time favorite movies, and this axe, I call the blue lart. (lart == luser attitude re-adjustment tool, a system administrator's acronym)