Mom and I left for New Jersey at about 8am Wednesday in the Prius. The drive to Aunt Linda and Uncle Chip’s house is about four hours, and many interesting things ensued. We talked about doing a rock cover of “I’m a Little Teapot” with our band Rubber Roadkill, which stemmed from a random donut somehow rolling across the lanes of the highway. We had McDonald’s for brunch and were stalked by a Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield blimp. We got to Chip & Linda’s around 1:00 in the afternoon. Linda was at work and Chippy had to go out soon after we got there, so Mom and I played around in his music room until he got back. After that we continued to play there until dinner. Basically dinner was the end of our night.
On Thursday we drove to the train station.. found out there was no parking after we got lost on our way to find it, then went back to the house and woke Chippy up to drive us there. We got into the city around 2 o’clock and checked in at our hotel at 2:30. The first thing we bought in NYC was hotdogs from a street vendor. We took the subway (all day basically) to Chinatown and shopped some. I got a pretty wooden fan for Candace there. Then we had more issues with figuring out the subway and had to walk nine blocks back to our hotel. The hotel room was amazing. It was small, but the beds were soo comfy. We fell asleep around midnight I think? and got up at six the next morning.
We headed out around seven in the morning and had breakfast at a place called Junior’s. They gave us a lot of food. After breakfast we got on the subway around seven in the morning and went back to this Halloween costume shop we found on Broadway and 11th Street while we were getting lost looking for Chinatown, that we’d stopped near at Grace Church to take a rest. I found the ruby slippers for $30. And so I bought them. There was one out for show, and it was the largest size they had–and it was the one that fit. I wore them around for maybe 15 minutes before I got blisters on my already-hurting feet and had to go back to my sneakers (ick). We went around the Empire State Building looking for Macy’s, and instead we found a GameStop with Wiis in stock. We bought one of those, too. It came out to be $315 with insurance, and we mailed it back home to Britt & Nick. (It’ll be there after we are, but we didn’t want to carry it around the city.) After that we had to go back to our hotel room and check out.
Then we found Macy’s; Mom got a carrying bag that says Macy’s on it, and I got a red Macy’s shirt and a blue Rocawear halfy thing. After that we took the metro to Chelsea Piers, and lo and behold it’s GLBT pride week or whatever in New York, so there were a lot of gay men walking around with their boyfriends and rainbow flags flying on the street. It was cool in a slightly awkward way. After we left Chelsea Piers we got on the subway back to the Red Lobster we’d passed on our way to Macy’s. We had a half-hour wait but the food was amazing. After Red Lobster we found our way to Penn Station, it took us on to New Jersey transit which took us back to Edison, where Chippy picked us up. We got back to their house and were up for only an hour or two before we went to bed, probably.
I called off work for today, so we have a fourth day for whatever. I’m so happy we went on this vacation. We totally forgot to take pictures, though.
Sacha Lynn
