Mini-Vacation to NYC & DC

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Wow, my last plane landed back in Greenville yesterday. Everything is such a blur now. I’m glad I took all the pics I took. It was really a whirlwind vacation! But when Rich and I got back to his apartment in DC I told him that I really fealt like I am in vacation mode now. He agreed. We felt exhausted too. We didn’t go to bed that night till about midnight. At that point we had been awake for over 36 hours. Monday was a very tired day. It’s a good thing that we had only to go to the Statue of Liberty and then get on our bus back to DC. I’m not sure we could have handled much more.

We did everything we wanted to do and more. We photographed a giant NYC rat. We saw a Broadway show (“The Drowsy Chaperone”). We went up in the Empire State Building & the Statue of Liberty. We found the Chrystler building (by accident). LOL! We played some Starcraft. We visited the NYSE. And much more. We also found several things that we weren’t expecting like the Grand Central Station, the Trump Towers, the Mac store and many many beautiful females. We are both single. So we enjoyed noticing all the beautiful well-dressed women. We didn’t wait in too many lines but when we had to at least it was easy to fine some eye-candy help pass the time.

We even went to a Broadway show. “The Drowsy Chaperone.” It was a comedy and was very funny. It was based on a 1920’s-style vaudeville musical. We got good seats. I’m still amazed at all we fit into this trip. 

My feet were sore about halfway through our first day in NYC. We did a TON of walking. My legs are still sore. I didn’t notice it much while we were on the go. Hey, at least NYC is flat. San Fransisco is built on a steep mountain. Ben and I found ourselves out of breath a lot when we were walking around Frisco.

 Rich and I both agreed that we’d love to live in NYC someday. We just love the mega-city feel. We agreed that the locals in NYC are very friendly. We found ourselves asking for directions in the subway. That subway system is definately handy but it’s loud and old. The DC subway is much nicer. The NYC subway is smuch more quaint though. There were musicians and a lot of old and interesting tile-work in the subways. I invented a subway game to make the time waiting for the right train very enjoyable. The point of the game is to wait till a train rolled into the station. As it was flying by and coming to a halt you look through the windows and spot a girl that seems pretty to you. When the train stops enough to get a better look, you see if she was really pretty or not. I noticed that blond hair always caught my attention. Sometimes she’d be pretty but other times she’d be about 30 years older than me. It was a fun game though!

We only encountered a few beggars. We walked through Central Park at 2:30am hoping that some mugger would try to mug us. But all we saw was a huge rat. Oh well.

I had fun in the Mac store. I changed the default web page on one of the Mac Books to a Microsoft site! I bought an iPod though. I thought it would make me cooler than most Macaddicts to have purchased my iPod from the actual Mac store on 5th Ave. in Downtown NYC. I do feel pretty cool. But my iPod has a bug that I spent over an hour on the phone with Apple Care today about (and they haven’t been able to fix it yet).  I’ll say, that Mac store is sweet though.

After we got back to DC we went to the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. We only covered 1 of the floors. But it was amazingly cool to see and read about everything there. I can’t wait to go back someday! Almost everything they had was real. Not models or mock-ups. They had real moon capsules, real ICBM’s (minus the nuke warhead), real rockets, real satelites, real turbine engines, real rocket motors. They even had the real X-15 rocket plane that broke and still holds many aircraft records. They even had the real Space Ship One hanging from the ceiling too. An amazing place.

Well, that’s the big summary of my mini-vacation to DC and NYC. I can’t wait to go back! It was a lot of fun.