Back to the Grind

I'm back from New York. Good times were had by all.

We had a little trouble getting out there. Kyle and I left Thursday morning. We were supposed to get into New York around 1 in the afternoon, but didn't end up landing until 7:30 pm. We spent 4 hours on a plane that we were only supposed to be on for an hour.

My family was supposed to meet us out there later that night, but their flight ended up being canceled all together, and they didn't make it there until the next afternoon.

having no other options, Kyle and I were forced to go out to dinner, order a ridiculously over priced movie off the TV at the hotel and then order room service for breakfast the next morning. Ya, it was rough times for us...

At dinner, we impressed (or horrified) the staff by consuming more bread than should be possible for two people at one meal. Needless to say we got our money's worth out of that meal.

During the rest of the trip, we went to the Museum of Natural History, the Empire State Building, Ground Zero, etc. The most entertains moments, however, were had walking down the street.

A scalper was hustling Kyle for tickets.

Hustler: Do you like comedy?
Kyle: Yup!
Hustler, feeling encouraged by a prospective sale: Wanna go see a show?
Klye: NOPE!

We had a good laugh about that one.

Kyle also had a rather entertaining battle with elevator doors. The hotel we were staying at was on time square, and to keep hobos out of the lobby, they have one set of secured elevators that you have to use to get to the lobby and then transfer to another set of elevators to get to the rooms. The first set of elevators weren't very sensitive to things that were in the way when they closed. Kyle attempted to do a jumping karate kick into the closing doors to hold the elevator so that we didn't have to wait for the next one. It didn't work as planned. Instead of holding the elevator, he was almost eaten by the doors.

More to come later...