Another Day in NYC? Sure!

Day: 121

With plans to get out of the city today (not that we wanted to, but it was far to expensive to stay) we stumbled out of bed around 11:30am and tried to attempt to get ready to leave (it had been a rough night). Just minutes after our return to the world of the living Matt’s phone rang. It was his uncle, who lives across the water in New Jersey. He wanted to see us and told Matt that if we stayed he would pick up our hotel bill for all three nights in the city. At $185 a night, and no plans until Tuesday night, it was not an offer we could refuse. He said he’d head into town and meet us for lunch. Now we had all the time we needed to get ready.

An hour later we were on the streets with Matt’s uncle looking for somewhere to eat breakfast (more like lunch, seeing as it was already 2pm). We settled on a little Irish pub, unfortunately the food wasn’t as good as it was in Ireland, still tasty though. He then gave us a driving tour through all the streets of New York showing us all of the buildings of importance and telling us a little about their history. I fell asleep in the back seat. (Hey it was a rough night yesterday!)

Startled from a dead sleep, Chad pushed me out of the back seat of the jeep and onto the bright streets of New York. We said goodbye and thanks to Matts uncle, and started making our way through a street market to downtown to see Wall Street, Ground Zero, and the Statue of Liberty. We walked for a few hours, then ran out of city as we hit the water, we climbed on the subway and made our way back towards our hotel to find some dinner and a bottle of wine at a small Italian food place. During dinner Jandiz called me and happened to be a couple of blocks away, so she made her way to us and shared some of Chad and my food. She had to take off to meet with some of her actors (she’s a director) but said she’d call us later and we might hang out.
We just went back to the hotel for some zoning out watching TV and naptime until we were supposed to meet Matt’s cousin Dan, who had just got back in to town, for beers and burgers. Around midnight we called our day and returned home for one of our first early nights in a long time.