First weekend

Hello all :)

Well it has been a few days since I posted, so I thought I would tell you guys some new stories :)

We are winding down on our first weekend in the city and boy is there a lot to talk about!!

On Wednesday, I ventured out alone to make the 2.5 mile journey to Bloomingdales. Almost got his by a cab (this is starting to become a bit of a routine) but I made it! On my journey, I was approached by a guy about my age on the street. He said, "Excuse me, where are you from?" I thought, "He must KNOW I am from Texas.." So I said with pride "TEXAS!!!" with a big honkin smile. He said, "cool, I'm from Washington, and we are really trying to get our music out to the public." My heart dropped. I was so excited to find someone to talk about Texas with. Instead, I was handed a sweet looking CD complete with two rapping babies on the cover. haha.. that's right... RAPPING BABIES. I listened to his speech about loving his music blah blah blah, and he said I could have the CD for just a small donation... even just 4 quarters. I politely declined and he attempted one last time with "but you could be my sister from another mister... just help me out, you'll love our music." I told him that I was sure I would, but no thanks, and giggled as I walked away. hahaha... crazies

On Friday, I went on the subway ALL BY MYSELF!!!!! I was very impressed with myself... for obvious reasons. I must have looked like I knew what I was doing because an old man asked me for directions :) (of course I had no idea where he was asking about) I went all the way to SoHo to see what all was there and to do some more shopping. Did you know that at the DSW here they carry Jimmy Choo!!! What is that about??? Of course, whenever I leave the house...RAIN. So I chose to cab it home. Halfway home, my cabbie says, "hold on miss, I have to go to the bathroom" and LEAVES me alone in the cab!! Then, once I got home he tried to charge me even for the time he was not in the cab. I called him on it, but tipped him anyway out of pure fear... I have to get better about that.

We chose to make Saturday our day to go to Jersey. We were going to look at furniture, go to Target and go grocery shopping a super walmart. We were ready for the day and jumped in a cab. The cabbie asked us how much we want to pay. Confused we asked how much does it cost. He said that it just depends on what we want to pay and to make him an offer. Still confused we said... "it's just four miles" He said, "most people pay 45, 50, 55 bucks." Timmy said "we will give you 15 bucks... it's four miles." He said "NO! GET OUT." and kicked us out. So... new game plan... headed to Queens. That was quite and experience with some great people watching. We got to go to TARGET!!!! wooohoooooooo.


Our friend Lesslie met up with us in Queens. She was on an overnight trip and had 22 hours to spend with us! Woohoo... our first visitor :) She braved the crazy subway with us and we got to hand out with a Texas friend! We went to a super tasty dinner at a place called Mizza. They had delicious Italian food. I got a "Sunday pasta" that had meatballs and sausage... yuuuuummmmmy. As I was eating, I found a small little morsel in my pasta that had come out of my meatball. I ate it. It was sweet and tasted like a blueberry. Timmy and Lesslie tried it and agreed. Strange but it indeed tasted like a blueberry. The food was so good, but we were thrown off, so I asked the waitress... "This may sound stupid but... are there blueberries in the meatballs?" The waitress starts rolling laughing and says... "that's so cute. No, they are currants, but you're right, they kind of taste like blueberries. hahahahahha that is my favorite question ever!" then walks away laughing at me. That was embarrassing, but seems like that is just the story of my life these days. ... looking like an idiot. At least I made her laugh. Oh well... what can you do???

Well. today is Father's Day and I really miss my family. Being away is really hard. I want to count down the days back to Texas. There has to be an app for that.

Well I miss you and and love you very much. Everybody hug somebody else and pretend it's me :) I'll check in with you later!