Written Friday 16 May
The torrential rain may not have led to the most interesting of days, despite the reception guy's suggestion that I go skinny dipping in the ginormous puddles (to be fair it is quite warm outside!) but the evening was freaking awesome. Rocked up to Pacha at 12, managed to blag a VIP band with the London accent (seriously works wonders over here, they LOVE it) and got invited into the DJ booth which resulted in free drink tickets all night! Just as well really - the wine over here is like 5% so would have blown my entire budget trying to get anywhere near drunk. Although the barmaids were really off with us...found out why later - apparently we were supposed to tip, which defeats the whole point of free drinks, does it not? The mind boggles... Despite this minor hiccup it was a good night: met lots of interesting people, actually enjoyed tearing myself away from mainstream and entering the world of electro and ended up hanging out on Staten Island with a few guys we met until like 7am. Loving how easy it is to meet cool people in NYC. Mr DJ took a fancy to my roomie and invited us to some club launch night tomorrow - even said he'll send a driver to the hostel! Really cool of him, will definitely be mulling it over...
