NYC, part 3

So far today:

-determined it was below freezing when my hair turned into "curlcicles"
-nearly froze my ears off
-went to St. John's Cathedral for the 11am Choral Eucharist
-ate Indian food for lunch
-got back to the hostel
-went to David and Nick's room on the 6th floor and am managing to steal wireless
-am attempting to get last week's BSG via torrent, it's currently...3.1% downloaded. yeah.

Not feeling like doing much. Want to go to the NYC Library and see the original Winnie the Pooh (thanks to Aunt Pam reminding me that I once told mom "if I ever go to New York I will go to the library and see Pooh!"). Am debating going to art museums (Met, Guggenheim, MoMA), but they all cost money and are on the east side of Manhattan. Would like to visit ground zero still. By the way, it is odd that "ground zero" is now code for "where the WTC used to be." Probably don't want to bother to go to Ellis Island because it's cold and costs money, but I want to at least *see* the statue of liberty. I'm assuming that's possible.

The internet is cool!! :) Anyway, that's all I know for now. I'm kinda ready to be done with this phase of the adventure, I think. The church service was neat - the cathedral is GINORMOUS and as a result everything echos like crazy. An organist's nightmare, but makes all the chanting of "the Lord be with you" "and also with you" etc. really beautiful. Also makes incense okay since there's so much volume for it to diffuse into and you don't get a coughing fit. But to me, cathedrals like that are places to visit and smaller parishes are places to come home to.