Neither Ben nor I wanted to get on the plane. We only needed a few more days to connive and figure out how we were going to pull off moving there. New York is so incredible and I can't imagine spending your own money on going anywhere else. Here's the breakdown:
We arrived at JFK early Wednesday. On maybe 4 hours sleep. Shuttle service drama ensures. LONG story and 1 transfer later, we arrive at our little motel-no tell after four hours. Lesson learned: Never take a shuttle- arrange for the car service. It doesn't cost that much more and you won't waste four hours of your life in a shuttle van while some disgruntled driver holds you hostage.
The little B&B we booked based on an online review (can you feel the nerves) turned out to be just supa dupa! Clean rooms, friendly house cat, helpful staff and ultra importante: Right next to a subway stop. Oh Happy Day! Once we checked in it was straight to the room to immediately put on thermals. We went from about 50 degrees here to 17 degrees in NYC. 17 Degrees with wind. We then had maybe an hour to play with before we had to be at the Ed Sullivan Theater to claim our Letterman tickets. I'll do a separate post on the Letterman experience.
The highlights of our trip were seeing Moby perform for 2 hours solid (a complete fluke getting tickets-Thank you Jenn R.) , MOMA, eating, the blessed angel on the subway that told us we were in Brooklyn not the Upper East Side, riding the subway everywhere, The Village, BOOTLEGS!, Central Park and pretty much everything we did. We could have spent another 2 weeks there and still not run out of things to do. The feeling of being in a major city where people of varying races and beliefs are forced to get along or else, is such an amazing feeling. It's the way it should be.
On the way back (we took the car service) I put the two disposable cameras we took photos with in my backpack. And of course, put my backpack through the scanner. All of the film was ruined. I do have a few photos I took with my low quality camera phone. They are all we have left until the next trip.
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