New York is full of tourists year-round. New Yorkers are pretty immune to them, in my experience, and generally helpful when asked a direct question.

Of the cities I have been to in the U.S., I was incredibly displeased with Orlando. It was the fakest damn city I have ever been to. It probably was where my conference was, but I could not find any locals or "real" non-tourist people. I think I would jump off a bridge if I had to live there.

No other city I have been to has felt that manufactured and non-local centered as that one. Including NYC, SF, LA, Chicago.

New York is one of the few places someone's approached me and offered directions. Which was a great call on their part. I'd imagine there are tons of opportunities to learn that flavour of perplexed.

In Jamaica, when we were little, sometimes we "played" by sitting at the gate and waving and smiling at anyone who passed by slowly enough. We'd do that for, like, an hour at a time.

Wow. Nobody plays that game in London. Not in our bits, anyway.

Oh and not for nothing, the most unfriendly city I have been to in Canada was Montreal. Damn, the people up there were the opposite of NICE. I'm assuming they were just tired of tourists, but their rudeness made an impression on me the few times I have been.

Timelies all!

We're taking Gary's dad(and stepmom) out to dinner tomorrow rather than Sunday, because they have other plans on Sunday. Sunday we're going up to Baltimore to see the tall ships.

The big library conference in is Anaheim this year; a lot of people don't like it because it has that manufactured feel like Orlando. (It's in Anaheim on a regular basis though; I gather not too many cities can handle 30,000+ librarians.)

I could dig Montreal being unfriendly--it has the potential to be where Francophones draw their line in the sand and let the Anglos know what they think about them (and their high school Franglais). But I didn't feel any particular hostility there, except when language tensions were running explicitly high.

Oh and not for nothing, the most unfriendly city I have been to in Canada was Montreal.

That was my experience of Montreal, too, le n. Active glares from the locals. I've never felt so unwelcome in any city.

DC is year-round tourist friendly.

My friends sometimes complain, but the tourons never really get to me...except for that one time with the toddler on the Metro dripping that icky red/white/blue popsicle all over everything.

I try to be conscious of people who seem lost. Given our grid system, you get a lot of people looking for things with the same address, but a different quadrant, all the time.

I have only been to NY for a quick weekend and we were in full tilt tourist mode when whole time. The locals we met where all very nice. Maybe cause we wanted to experience the city and not just looky-loo. I don't know.

I'm currently getting a mani-pedi. Green in prep for my belt test tomorrow. I also have a massage scheduled for Sunday to recover from the test.

Now I just need to figure out what carb heavy dinner I want. Both kids are out so I don't feel like cooking.