First Day in the City

So it's 12:40am New York time and what a day it's been! I'm going to try and keep it short this time. Promise :)

I woke up around 7am and just stayed in bed for awhile, made a sandwhich and around 8 I finally pounced on Kaitlin to wake up. We got in our bikinis and went to the Jersey Shore to lay out and walk around a bit. When we got there, you had to pay 5 bucks to get a bracelet in order to walk on the beach which was new to me. We stayed in the sun for a good amount of time, enough time for me to get color on my chest and cheeks. It was getting too hot for us so we got up to head back to the boardwalk. As we were packing up the lifeguard started cheering and hollering and everyone was kind of like, what's wrong with this kid? Then he started shouting, "yeah USA!" which then I think everyone realized he was listening to the soccer game because then everyone started cheering.

On the boardwalk were SO many little shops with jersey type shirts and shorts with piercing and tattoo deals. Then there were a bunch of carnival rides and carnival type foods all over the place. It smelled like beach and funnel cake. Yummy.

At the end of the boardwalk we took this lift back to the other side which was so nice and relaxing. We were basically on top of the sand with a nice breeze blowing. When we got off we decided to keep walking and got some free samples of this flavored ice/ice cream.... It was so yummy! It reminded me of those freeze icy pops I used to have as a kid.

We went back to Kaitlin's house to take showers and I got ready to head to New York. Kaitlin drove me to the station and it wasn't as bad as I thought. maybe a 40 minute train ride with one stop. I actually enjoyed it. It made me feel like I was back in Europe again. Once I got in at Penn Station, I met up with Olivia and we went to a small diner close to her apartment (and close to the first Macy's too!). We were able to gossip and laugh and eat amazing grilled cheese sandwiches! Afterwards we only has a little less than an hour till the show we were going to see started. So we walked across the street to the place she was staying at to drop off her Disney bag (she had just come back from some sort of Disney convention for her work where she got free stuff) and I got a tour of her place which was literally the size of a small one bedroom dorm room. Cute non-the-less! I loved the building too.

We took the subway to the New World Stages Theater where we saw Avenue Q. Holy crap, it was such a wonderful show! If the girls in front of us would have stopped talking, laughing and using their cell phones to text it probably would have been much better. I told Olivia at intermission that I should have put a hand gun in my purse so if I told the girl to shush and she gave me attitude, I wouldn't have to say anything. I could just pull the gun out. After a great show, I bought a shirt to remember the show buy which cost me a good 30 bucks... For a shirt with the letter "Q" on it...

Then it was off to the subway to say bye to Olivia and get on my train to meet up with Kaitlin and her boyfriend. Now we're home and I'm exhausted! I'm going to pass out because tomorrow should be another long day :)