New York

WOW..... what can I say about New York. We had so much fun etc that I think I slept the WHOLE DAY away this past Sunday. (Roman to) Anyway, we went to see "Legally Blonde" a musical on broadway. WOWOWOWOWOWOW !!! It was amazing.....SO MUCH FUN !! Very funny !! The band played in Battery Park on Friday....IT RAINED THE WHOLE DAY !! It was very disappointing (the rain I mean). Everyone was pretty much soaked the whole day. We still visited Ellis Island. In all my visits to New York I've never visited Ellis Island. So that was so very cool. The imigration building is very FASCINATING. Oh I forgot.....before getting on the ferry to go over to the island. I experienced an issue with the police. VERY EMBARASSING I MUST SAY !! There was a security check before getting on the ferry. At which they had signs up that said to unload pockets, take off jackets, belts, etc. and a big sign that said "NO KNIVES". Anyway I went along in the line watching everyone unpack ALLLLLLL their stuff and as I'm standing there I realize I have something in my purse that could cause a stir......my box cutter knife. I use it at work everyday to open/cut down boxes of new merchandise etc. So I'm like...."Oh my gosh". I look at my friend Missy...call her by name and she looks at my face and says..."what's wrong?". I proceeded to tell her I had my box cutter in my purse....."oh crap" she says. Of course I'm surrounded by teenagers that are hearing everything I just said .... they are now watching how I'm going to handle this whole situation. So I proceed to go through the check out, of course they stop me and ask if I have a knife, I inform them it's not a knife..... it's a box cutter (like that really makes a difference if you've ever seen my "box cutter") Anyway.... moving on.... They take my "knife" and escort me to the policeman on duty. He opens up my "knife" , then asks if the razor blade comes out (after he tries it a few times)...."sure could I show you?" he says "ok". Then says "I'll keep this and you can have your "tool" back. "Cool" I say and proceed to turn to walk away and there stands my friend .... the band director right next to me. (really he is a friend, we went to school together) He looks at me and I say...."what are you over here for?" He says, "I just didn't want you to have to do this alone". Cool. Roman on the other hand didn't even know....didn't see anything at all until I told him what happened.....how funny is that??? So that was all the excitement I needed for that day. Very funny stuff. I"m sure I'll never live that one down for a while. The next day (Saturday) was alot better. Except that Roman woke up sick. So on the way to his room to pack him for our trip home (we were checking out of the hotel and then touring the city before coming home) I met up with our band director in the elevator. He puts his hand on my shoulder and says " We need to talk" I was like "I know, Roman is sick this morning....I'm going up there to check on him and pack him etc." Jeff proceeds to say ....."So, tell me about the service elevators". OH NOOOOOOOO.......WOOOOOPS ! (you see the night before, me and one of my friends and 2 of the girls one of which was her daughter didn't want to wait for the main elevators and there weren't any others around and I just happened to have SCOPED the service elevators out the night we got there.....you know in just such an emergency?) So I was like..."woops sorry for that, that probably wasn't the best "chaparone" thing to do" So, there again a little embarassing, but ENTIRELY HILARIOUS. I'm glad that he saw the HUMOR in it. Not sure who else knows....evidently teenage girls don't keep secrets very well......WHO KNEW??? Well anyway the rest of the day we went all over the city very cool stuff. We even visited ground zero. Something, of course, I had not done before because the last time I had been there was 2000 and the towers were still standing then. Roman was such a trooper....he was so miserable but didn't want to miss a thing. By the end of our touring he was feeling much better. At the end of our city tour we all met up at Rockefeller Center and went to the "Top of the Rock". 70 floors up to the top of Rockefeller Center to look out at the nightscape......SO AWESOME!!! Oh yea....there was a security check point there to....did I take the box cutter out of my purse you ask????? Uhhhhh.....NOT ME. Who would have thought I would have to do that again??? Good thing this time they weren't really looking and didn't care. Very cool. So.... that was my trip. We had alot of fun. I think next time we need to make a girls trip....you know....with my best GIRLfriends. SHOPPING ..... Chinatown ..... Chanel 20 dollars. Are you feeling up to the challenge?????