Speaking of chowing down, check out the huge scoreboard on the side of the Nathan's building that simultaneously counts down the days to the next Hot Dog Eating Contest as well as shows the current male and female records. (66 and 39, respectively!)
Check out the past records - not sure what happened that made competitive eating get so much more intense after the late nineties! It's crazy that the new male eating record more than TRIPLES all the records in the 90s!
After Nathan's we hit the boardwalk so that I could show off some of the other famous Coney Island institutions...
This is my friend, Sylvie! We met on the national interweb while she was living in Paris. Sylvie moved to New York and we graduated from cyber-friends to real friends!
After only being in NYC for a couple months, Sylvie decided to move back to Paris but wanted to make sure she got to see all the places in NYC that she hadn't gotten a chance to see before she left! So on Sunday, I met up with Sylvie and two of her friends to check out Coney Island!
