things that make you go hmm...

NYC pix now online

New York City was Fucking awesome...

Yesterday, sheila, my mom and I returned after a week in New York City. We had a perfect time, but we are glad to be back home with crumpus and chester.

Last Saturday we already had a great start by me leaving sheila's bag at DFW's Air-Link train. We got the bag back really quickly though. Upon arrival at LGA in NYC we took the M60 Bus from the airport to 106th street, where we would catch a number 1 train down to 96th street to our hotel. Our bus driver decided to take a bathroom break, so she emptied the bus on 126th street in Harlem and took of with us white folks stranded in the middle of the lions den. About 15min later another bus came to pick us up, and I caught one of the "locals" going through sheilas back pack. I caught him doing so and he ran off the bus.



when we finely made it to the hotel it was off to hit the streets. We checked out Time Square, the Battery, and the 9-11 hole that first day. The next morning I woke the girls at 6 am to we can get an early start to avoid the lines at the ferry to go see the statue of liberty. Good thing I had purchased our tickerts in advance and we got on the boat in no-time. Except for the
post 9-11 security bull shit we had to go through. Upon arrival on liberty island we had to go through another screening in order to enter the statue (big brother is live and well).

other things we visited in NYC was the empire state building, china town, little Italy, central park, Coney island, Washington square park, brookly bridge, wall street. The Hello Deli, Guggenheim, American Museum of Nat. History, and much much more.

Tuesday morning, we got our National TV debut on fix and friends. Yes we had to do it. Jump around in the background window of the studio. There are several good shots of us. Good thing I DVRed it.



Wednesday, Sheila and I had to take the New Jersey Transit to Carteret NJ to catch a Dinner Cruise around Manhattan island. Penn Station was Crazy, but we made it to port in time. The cruise was great, the food was awesome, and the night time view of the Manhattan skyline was breath taking. To top it off, as soon as the boat turned around to head back to port, fireworks started firing into the night sky over jersey city.

The next morning, I turned on the news, they reported that all of New Jersey Transit was down due to power failure. Boy, where we glad that the power did not go out 4 hours earlier, or we would of been one of the thousands that were trapped in the trains that morning.

since Sheila and I bought soo much crap, we had to buy another suitcase to bring it all home... After a long delay at LGA we had only 20 min to go to our flight to Killeen from DFW. our bags did not make that flight, and we had to go back to the airport that night to pick them up.



there is soo much more to say, but to wrap it up, we had a Blast, but are glad to be back in the much slower paced life of central Texas. I am excited to start planning our next trip to anywhere, because it will not take long for me to get itchy feet again

natural, just like on any CWnation vacation, there is an obscene number of photos that I took. I will post more in the near future, and off coarse, there will also be a video soon. Tuesday it is back to work, and I know there is a bunch off stuff waiting for me

new york, new york

tomorrow morning my mother, sheila and I are going to visit New york, NY for a week. we have have a full program planned on what we are going to do. mostly its going to be the typical stuff that you see the first time you go to the big apple; statue of liberty, empire state building, 9-11 hole, etc. In addition, sheila and I have a dinner cruise around Manhatten planned for wednesday night. it's oing to be soo much fun. I will also meet an old friend from high school. we are all very excited. it has been awhile since we went on a vacation. Today i have to take care of some lest minute arrangements like bring Krumpus and henry to sheilas parants house. buy some 800 speed film, and pick up sheilas birth-control from walmart. our hotel is located at the upper-west side (respek) i found a tuerkish restaurant on in lower manhatten that sells doeners. I think i am mostly excited about that, since i have not had a doener nearly 18 month now. i hope they are as good in new york as they are in frankfurt or berlin. I also hope i can find some Ramazzotti, since my supply is pretty much deminished. my father brought me a bottle of ramazzotti when he came to visit last september.

if you read this in time, then tune to "fox and friends" tuesday morning and see if you can see us in the background. I am intending to make a fool out of myself on live national television. off coarse i will be fosting lots of photographs and videos of our trip.