Thoughts of LoWriter

New York and Carbon Monoxide

For those of you who don't know, I went to New York City last weekend. It was great fun.

We did the following things:
Empire State Building
Subway
Stayed in Times Square
Broadway Show (Sweet Charity) (We got kick ass seats for half price.)
Staton Island Ferry (where we viewed the Statue of Liberty)
Battery Park
Metropolitan Museum of Art (where I saw Tiffany windows--a life goal)
Guggenheim
Central Park
Who Wants to Be a Millonaire (3 tapings. I was not smart enough to get on.)
China Town
Little Italy
5th Ave.
Today Show
Rockefeller Center
Jazz club (live jazz)
Cuban restaraunt
Best tortellini of my life
Pizza
New York Times building

There was probably more, and if you know me well, I'll probably tell you about it. It rained a lot, and we got soaked on the way back. We definitely danced in the rain on the Staton Island Ferry as the winds started blowing in from the big storm out there this week. I spilled mustard from a NYC hotdog on me, which I think is classic. When we were riding the subway for the Staton Island Ferry, we realized we had to be farther up the train in order to get off where we wanted to, so we had to run like maniacs at every stop in order to get up far enough in the amount of time we had left. (The subway cars were way to crowded to make crawling through them all effective.)

So on the whole, really kick ass time. NYC is way faster paced than MN, and it was fun to visit. I think living there would probably be hard for me because I am by nature a slow person, but I would definitely go back in a heartbeat. We hardly saw half of everything there is to see, but it was fantastic.

Then I got back and had a $700 bill for my car. Guess whose car has been pumping exhaust into the cabin? Mine. The guy asked me if I'd been having a lot of headaches lately, and when I said that I couldn't remember the last time I didn't have a headache, he looked at me with horror. So, if I don't remember conversations I've had with you (which has happened once or twice lately) it's probably because my car has been trying to poison me. :)

NYC is a trip you should all take, but beware of your car's jealousy when you get back. :)

Posted by LoWriter at October 28, 2005 09:05 AM