My roommate Jenny and I 'planned' a spontaneous trip to NYC on December 18. We basically decided to
go two days before while we were G-chatting at work. We booked our bus tickets and we took a day trip up to the Big Apple! We took a taxi at 3:00am to the bus station where we caught the 3:30 Chinatown bus. We thought we would just sleep on the bus, well that would have been a good idea if I didn't have miss 'Thang' with a serious attitude sitting behind me! I tried to recline my seat back (and lets be honest, it's not like they really lean back that far), but she immediately yelled at me
"Don't you be puttin' yo seat back! You'll smash my knees!" I still have yet to figure out how her knees could have been up that high that they would be in the way. Oh well.
The funniest part was toward the end when her camera bag fell off the top rack and landed on my head (now take into consideration that I basically sat at a 90 degree angle trying to sleep for the last 4 hours and was exhausted when this happened) so I turned around and glared at her. She immediately yelled at me for glaring at her because it's not like she did it o
n purpose! I just turned back around and tried one more time to go to sleep. We arrived in NYC around 8:00 and the adventure began. We got some breakfast from a nice Kosher bagel place and then made our way through Central Park. We were lucky that the weather wasn't too cold, it was great! We walked by The Plaza Hotel and into FAO Schwartz toy store, what a fun store! They have
awesome (and very expensive) toys there! We headed over to Rockfeller Center and saw the big Christmas tree and the decorations that surrounded the area. It was SO crowded, definitely not like Home Alone2! We went over to Bryant Park and walked through their little Christmas shops and watched some ice skaters out on the rink. After that we were ready for lunch so we went to this great Italian place called "OTTO", it is run by
Mario Batali (of the Food Network). It is set up like an old train station, it was great and the food was really good too!! After lunch we walked by Bloomingdale's, Saks 5th Ave and Macy
's to see their window displays. Macy's won hands down with the best window displays ever! Each window was a 3D, animated page of the storybook "Yes, Virginia There is a Santa Claus" and it was so cute! After strolling through the store we went to Grand Central Station to check that out and then we went back over to Rockefeller Center to see the Christmas tree all lit up at night. We caught the 7:30 bus bac
k to DC and got home just after midnight. It was a long and wonderful day! Jenny is the best person to travel with because she knows all the great places to visit and she has an
amazing sense of direction, all I have to do is follow along!! (She is also a lot of fun to be with!)
My roommate Jenny and I 'planned' a spontaneous trip to NYC on December 18. We basically decided to
go two days before while we were G-chatting at work. We booked our bus tickets and we took a day trip up to the Big Apple! We took a taxi at 3:00am to the bus station where we caught the 3:30 Chinatown bus. We thought we would just sleep on the bus, well that would have been a good idea if I didn't have miss 'Thang' with a serious attitude sitting behind me! I tried to recline my seat back (and lets be honest, it's not like they really lean back that far), but she immediately yelled at me 
"Don't you be puttin' yo seat back! You'll smash my knees!" I still have yet to figure out how her knees could have been up that high that they would be in the way. Oh well. 
The funniest part was toward the end when her camera bag fell off the top rack and landed on my head (now take into consideration that I basically sat at a 90 degree angle trying to sleep for the last 4 hours and was exhausted when this happened) so I turned around and glared at her. She immediately yelled at me for glaring at her because it's not like she did it o
n purpose! I just turned back around and tried one more time to go to sleep. We arrived in NYC around 8:00 and the adventure began. We got some breakfast from a nice Kosher bagel place and then made our way through Central Park. We were lucky that the weather wasn't too cold, it was great! We walked by The Plaza Hotel and into FAO Schwartz toy store, what a fun store! They have 
awesome (and very expensive) toys there! We headed over to Rockfeller Center and saw the big Christmas tree and the decorations that surrounded the area. It was SO crowded, definitely not like Home Alone2! We went over to Bryant Park and walked through their little Christmas shops and watched some ice skaters out on the rink. After that we were ready for lunch so we went to this great Italian place called "OTTO", it is run by 
Mario Batali (of the Food Network). It is set up like an old train station, it was great and the food was really good too!! After lunch we walked by Bloomingdale's, Saks 5th Ave and Macy
's to see their window displays. Macy's won hands down with the best window displays ever! Each window was a 3D, animated page of the storybook "Yes, Virginia There is a Santa Claus" and it was so cute! After strolling through the store we went to Grand Central Station to check that out and then we went back over to Rockefeller Center to see the Christmas tree all lit up at night. We caught the 7:30 bus bac
k to DC and got home just after midnight. It was a long and wonderful day! Jenny is the best person to travel with because she knows all the great places to visit and she has an amazing sense of direction, all I have to do is follow along!! (She is also a lot of fun to be with!)
