Saturday, June 30, 2012

Farewell to the Big Apple!

I have been remiss in blogging but with good reason but I won't get into that now. We had a great last day in the city. We picked up Christa's NYC BFF Maddie and went out for a big day on the town. They wanted to go to Ripley's Believe or Not in Times Square--their favorite thing was a tie between the black hole and the shrunken heads. They weren't too sure about sitting next to this cannibal.



After we got a quick bite to eat at Pax, we headed down to Pier 40 to do flying trapeze at the NY School of Trapeze. Christa LOVES this place. It was awesome and the girls did great but I was a wimp. She has taken classes with them before in NY and LA so she is a little expert. Her buddy was a first timer, but was fearless.






After trapeze, we went out to Ellen's Stardust Diner. I highly suggest going there if you want Broadway caliber singers to rock out while you are eating dinner. Check it out at http://www.ellensstardustdiner.com/

Christa had a sleepover while I packed up the apartment. I picked her up in the morning so she could help me walk all the stuff from our apt to the car parked 2 blocks away. It was not easy moving out that was for sure. When you say we have to make 2 or 3 trips, it is a lot different when the car is not parked nearby. We headed out over the Verrazano Bridge to Staten Island and onto Pennslyvania to heave lunch with family. It seemed that everything was going smoothly until we hit Virginia. Apparently bad storms hit this area last night and much of the power was out. We didn't know if our hotel would have any power and no one could tell us one way or another. We spent the last 2 hours of the drive were occupied trying to find another room. There are no rooms left at all because of so many issues around the state but lucky for us our hotel had power and all was well. After living in our apt for the summer, we relish simple pleasures like a hot shower with great water pressure.

As far as our trip home goes--we hope tomorrow goes a bit easier and that we get home safe and sound soon.




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