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Back in England once again, having landed at Heathrow about ten hours ago. Am now riding Ye Olde Oxford Tubee into work, which seems like an ideal time to write more about my trip.
The first third of my holiday was P**T***, which I have already written about in summary. This entry, then, picks up from last Tuesday and covers the second third of my trip -- the time spent in and around New York City.
Tuesday and part of Wednesday were spent with Mom, being mostly mellow. By "mostly", I mean that there was an expedition made to notarize and ship the final (?) papers necessary to finish the Accursed Refinance of the Event Horizon[*]. Other than that, we sat and talked, we went to dinner... nothing terribly exciting. Just time catching up with Mom.
Wednesday evening,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
squeektoy42 picked me up and we went bowling. Despite being without my ball and shoes -- both of which live in Chicago -- I did reasonably well: I bowled a 147 in the first game and a 167 in the second. In the first game, I bowled a turkey near the end, finishing with five marks in a row! This made me quite excited; it has been several years since I bowled a turkey! Had I not wasted the first four frames of this game finding a ball that I felt passably comfortable with, I may well have broken 200 points! After bowling, squeektoy42 and I got dinner at a Mexican restaurant that she recommended -- very yummy food! Then we went back to her place and hung out. I taught her how to play Egyptian Ratscrew[**], we fired Nerf darts at each other, et cetera. All good fun! Eventually, AP and fawx_fae -- who was visiting from Michigan -- joined us and we all sat around talking until Way Too Late.
Thursday, I had a date with the lovelyfawx_fae in New York City. Since this was her first trip to the Big Apple, I wanted to give her a whirlwind tour worth remembering. We started by ascending the Empire State Building to get an aerial view of the city. On returning to the ground, we bought some New York pizza for lunch. Having fed ourselves, I brought her to Madison Square Park, where we fed nuts to the uber-friendly squirrels there. She particularly enjoyed an instance where one squirrel distracted her whilst another stole a nut out of her bag. Sneaky little buggers! After leaving the park, we took a walk to (and through) Times Square. This involved stopping in a fair number of gift stores and riding the indoor ferris wheel in the Times Square Toys 'R' Us. Very silly, but lots of fun! Following Times Square, we took a subway downtown and into Brooklyn. We picked up a snack at a local deli and ate it outside, when walked back into Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge. Thus, I was able to show fawx_fae one of my favourite skyline views of the city, to compliment the aerial view we had taken in earlier. Next, we made our way to Chinatown, where we drank tea, looked at anime, and spent way too much money on swords[***]. Eventually, squeektoy42 and AP joined us and we hit a dim sum restaurant for dinner.
I do believe that I succeeded in my mission of showingfawx_fae a good time in NYC. There is only so much that one can squeeze into a single day, but I think I did a reasonably good job of it. In any case, she seems willing to pay me a visit in England next year -- and perhaps in Japan at some point in the future -- so I will presume that I did not fare all that badly!
After dinner, we all headed back to Jersey City and crashed. There were only a few hours beforefawx_fae and I needed to head to LaGuardia to fly to Michigan. Still, it was very nice to squeeze in a little cuddle time with her in the night. Special thanks go to squeektoy42 for waking up at Stupid O'Clock in the morning to drive us!
So that was how I spent the middle third of my vacation. Tune in next time, gentle readers, for the final installment: Nomad Does Michigan!
[*] I have not yet checked my e-mail from the past twelve days, but I dearly hope that there is a note fromgyades telling me that this monkey is at last off of our collective backs.
[**] I was particularly impressed with myself in one game, as I was down to a mere four cards and still came back to win! Admittedly, two of those four cards were a queen and a jack, so it was a very good set of four. But still an impressive feat.
[***] Her, not me.
The first third of my holiday was P**T***, which I have already written about in summary. This entry, then, picks up from last Tuesday and covers the second third of my trip -- the time spent in and around New York City.
Tuesday and part of Wednesday were spent with Mom, being mostly mellow. By "mostly", I mean that there was an expedition made to notarize and ship the final (?) papers necessary to finish the Accursed Refinance of the Event Horizon[*]. Other than that, we sat and talked, we went to dinner... nothing terribly exciting. Just time catching up with Mom.
Wednesday evening,
squeektoy42 picked me up and we went bowling. Despite being without my ball and shoes -- both of which live in Chicago -- I did reasonably well: I bowled a 147 in the first game and a 167 in the second. In the first game, I bowled a turkey near the end, finishing with five marks in a row! This made me quite excited; it has been several years since I bowled a turkey! Had I not wasted the first four frames of this game finding a ball that I felt passably comfortable with, I may well have broken 200 points! After bowling, squeektoy42 and I got dinner at a Mexican restaurant that she recommended -- very yummy food! Then we went back to her place and hung out. I taught her how to play Egyptian Ratscrew[**], we fired Nerf darts at each other, et cetera. All good fun! Eventually, AP and fawx_fae -- who was visiting from Michigan -- joined us and we all sat around talking until Way Too Late.Thursday, I had a date with the lovely
fawx_fae in New York City. Since this was her first trip to the Big Apple, I wanted to give her a whirlwind tour worth remembering. We started by ascending the Empire State Building to get an aerial view of the city. On returning to the ground, we bought some New York pizza for lunch. Having fed ourselves, I brought her to Madison Square Park, where we fed nuts to the uber-friendly squirrels there. She particularly enjoyed an instance where one squirrel distracted her whilst another stole a nut out of her bag. Sneaky little buggers! After leaving the park, we took a walk to (and through) Times Square. This involved stopping in a fair number of gift stores and riding the indoor ferris wheel in the Times Square Toys 'R' Us. Very silly, but lots of fun! Following Times Square, we took a subway downtown and into Brooklyn. We picked up a snack at a local deli and ate it outside, when walked back into Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge. Thus, I was able to show fawx_fae one of my favourite skyline views of the city, to compliment the aerial view we had taken in earlier. Next, we made our way to Chinatown, where we drank tea, looked at anime, and spent way too much money on swords[***]. Eventually, squeektoy42 and AP joined us and we hit a dim sum restaurant for dinner.I do believe that I succeeded in my mission of showing
fawx_fae a good time in NYC. There is only so much that one can squeeze into a single day, but I think I did a reasonably good job of it. In any case, she seems willing to pay me a visit in England next year -- and perhaps in Japan at some point in the future -- so I will presume that I did not fare all that badly! After dinner, we all headed back to Jersey City and crashed. There were only a few hours before
fawx_fae and I needed to head to LaGuardia to fly to Michigan. Still, it was very nice to squeeze in a little cuddle time with her in the night. Special thanks go to squeektoy42 for waking up at Stupid O'Clock in the morning to drive us!So that was how I spent the middle third of my vacation. Tune in next time, gentle readers, for the final installment: Nomad Does Michigan!
[*] I have not yet checked my e-mail from the past twelve days, but I dearly hope that there is a note from
gyades telling me that this monkey is at last off of our collective backs.[**] I was particularly impressed with myself in one game, as I was down to a mere four cards and still came back to win! Admittedly, two of those four cards were a queen and a jack, so it was a very good set of four. But still an impressive feat.
[***] Her, not me.
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Also many thanks for such a splendid fun B-day dinner! SQUEE!!!
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You are welcome on both counts -- for the NYC tour and the birthday dinner! (Hey, you said that you wanted a good Chinese buffet! *smile*) Believe me, it was a pleasure!
Looking forward to seeing you again, Sweetie. In the meantime, I will look forward to seeing the pictures when they are developed!