City Parades
I realize that in the cycle of events in New York, if I cover them in my blog every year then I'd just have the same things over and over again. Like the Philippines Independence Day parade every 4th of June which we went to see today. Last year I went to see it also with Wally and walked the same route from 41st Street and Madison Avenue to the park between 26th and 25th Streets.
Probably because we had a terrible soaking yesterday, not too many people had come to see the parade this year, unlike last year. But this year though, we had become more wary of the over pricing of the food at the streetfair at the park. As we moved from one stall to another in search for something to drink, we were aghast at the pricing for watered down sago at gulaman, fresh buko juice or fresh melon juice. For the regular sized plastic cup most were charging $2.00. It was outrageous. Since Wally was from Queens, we might as well have boarded the '7' train and headed to Rene's Ihawan in Woodside and ordered the real deal in a tall plastic tumbler for $1.50!
New York celebrates the Philippines' Independence Day annually on the first Sunday of June. And since we share the same date with the city's Salute to Israel Day, we get to have our celebrations on Madison Avenue while the Israelis get 5th Avenue, the city's main parade venue. On the second Sunday in June, closer to the Philippines' actual Independence Day of 12 June, the city celebrates the much bigger and more rowdier 'Puerto Rico Day'. Makes you feel really important huh?
Probably because we had a terrible soaking yesterday, not too many people had come to see the parade this year, unlike last year. But this year though, we had become more wary of the over pricing of the food at the streetfair at the park. As we moved from one stall to another in search for something to drink, we were aghast at the pricing for watered down sago at gulaman, fresh buko juice or fresh melon juice. For the regular sized plastic cup most were charging $2.00. It was outrageous. Since Wally was from Queens, we might as well have boarded the '7' train and headed to Rene's Ihawan in Woodside and ordered the real deal in a tall plastic tumbler for $1.50!
New York celebrates the Philippines' Independence Day annually on the first Sunday of June. And since we share the same date with the city's Salute to Israel Day, we get to have our celebrations on Madison Avenue while the Israelis get 5th Avenue, the city's main parade venue. On the second Sunday in June, closer to the Philippines' actual Independence Day of 12 June, the city celebrates the much bigger and more rowdier 'Puerto Rico Day'. Makes you feel really important huh?