My Vacation So Far

Im sure this should come as no surprise to anyone, but vacations are awesome! You can do WHATEVER YOU WANT, and not feel guilty... everything can wait until you go back to work... at least I feel that is how it should be... there is no need to rush, or listen to an alarm clock or have an insanely packed day where you don't even have time for a decent lunch... oh no... that is all for when we are working. Today I slept in until about 9:30 and then I went to sleep again at about 10:30 for another half hour... it was wonderful :)

So, I have done a lot on my vacation so far, and I still have so much left to do... I am going to make a backwards post until I get to the beginning... so much I have to blog about, and the pictures will have to come later, John has them on his computer and there are just WAY TOO MANY right now!

Friday August 22
Today... well as I already said I slept in real late... you will see why when I right about yesterday.. but when I woke up I went to get a bagel sandwich at "Beyond Bagels" ... I don't know if this counts as a "new restaurant" for my 101 list, but it may... egg and cheese and a cinnamon roll... I love cinnamon! Then John and I took the train into the city, I love subways. We got off and walked to South Street Seaport (beautiful place, you must go there) then we went on "The Shark" its a fast boat ride around the NYC harbor... We rode over to the statue of Liberty, and hit a lot of bumps, we also went right under the Brooklyn Bridge and up to one of the four fake water falls they have on display from some European artist... art is strange. Then we got off and went on the grey line bus tour of Downtown Brooklyn. Our tour guide was AMAZING. He knew so much about NYC and history and pop culture and movies and famous people and art and.... on and on... basically this guy is Ken Burns with a NYC accent. It was so awesome. I didn't want to get off the bus. We went around grand army plaza, and down Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues... we saw a mall that looks like Ebbet's Field and a public housing complex that now sits on the old site of the real Ebbet's Field! Basically it was a wonderful tour! I tipped the guy 10 bucks and told him he was so much better than the Thursday tour guide, and he said he knows cause he trains the other guides, and he says with some of them there is nothing he can do! I totally feel for him.

Then John and I walked off for the Pomme Frits experience. Across from the Stomp theater there is this tiny hole in the wall place where you can get really good french fries... seriously, thats all they sell, french fries and dipping sauce. It was yummy! Then we walked about 20 min through the East Village to a vegetarian shoe store I wanted to check out. Its called Moo Shoes and they have a lot of stuff online, I wanted to see the stuff in person. I was a little disappointed though, cause most of the stuff online wasn't in the store, they didn't great me when I walked in... which was almost a good thing... no one asked to help me... and the stuff was way too expensive and they only had like 4 designs of dressy work shoes for women... but they had a really fluffy kitty and that was nice :)

Then we hopped back on the Subway for home. On the way there was this cute little boy, maybe 10 years old singing songs out loud :) He even sang a song about the Nintendo DS, which I think he started to play after he saw me playing mine :) At home we had vegetarian chicken nuggets ( I love Quorn!) and Kraft mac and cheese deluxe!! Watched some Daily and Colbert and now its bed time.

Tomorrow we have to pack and I'm hoping to meet up with my twin nonja (sic) who I haven't seen in years (and yeah, thats an inside thing that only one person will understand) But good night, my battery is almost dead, pictures and more words later!