Bigger and Better

There is a saying that in Texas everything is bigger and better. Apparently those Yanks didn't make it far enough north to see how inadequate their little ranch ramblings were because in the BIG Apple BIG takes on new dimensions.

Our first night we arrive at our serviced apartment in Murray Hill (visitors, don't bother with this area - BORING!). There are no take away menus in the room, nor is there a phone book. So we look out our seventh floor window and see a pizza place across the street advertising it's number. Perfect. We order a couple of large pizzas (er, here that is PIE) - we're hungry.

Not hungry enough. The pizzas arrived and I stood in front of the delivery guy aghast - were the boxes going to fit through the doorway? These puppies were the approximate size of our coffee table. Inside was more horrifying - each slice was big enough to serve as a tank top for my four year old. Oh my God, are they serious?!

And bigger is something I am adjusting to - the Footlocker is the size of the ANZ stadium, the Toys R Us is the biggest in the world - boasting a full sized ferris wheel ride inside, and the gargantuan sized meals everywhere you go make you shiver with disgust. But we're learning. We hit shops when they open to avoid the masses of people that fill the masses of space and we order "starters" instead of "entrees" (yes, yes, that's what they call the entrees and mains, but that's for another day).