Life in the Fast Lane

Well, we did it!

We are no longer NYC virgins! Yay :-)

We took the bus to the big city. We walked the 1.72 miles from our apartment to the Manchester bus station and took the 17:30 bus to Boston, hoping to catch the 19:00 bus to NYC. Well, if you know anything about cars and rush hour (something we were apparently ignorant to after years of living in Fargo)  you would know that we did NOT catch the 7pm bus.

Sorta Stresssssssful! We were sitting on the bus, in traffic, just glaring at each other. We had already purchased our greyhound tickets...

Greyhound helped us when we arrived at 19:12 and we caught the 8pm bus with a 30 dollar ticket transfer fee. Not bad. For a grand total of 176 bucks we both had round trip tickets from Manchester to NYC. And neither of us had to drive, we both could read, sleep, or use the free on board wifi. Convenient. :-)

We pulled in to NYC around 1am and took a taxi from the bus station to Brian's cousins apartment. We were lucky enough to crash on matching couches for the two nights we were there.

Enough talk, let's look at pictures!

Down in the subway. Hot hot heat.

We are so glad we had the Laphams with us, they knew their way around the subway.

The boys struttin in front of the flat iron

Point. Nod.

Babes

I love throwing up the Peace Signs when I've got my travel on.

I can not put in to words how WONDERFUL it was to see this woman, and her husband.

Guggenheim.

Guggenheim

We went to Wicked, and wandered around Time Square a bit.

How hott hott are these two?

I love Jason in that shirt.

Seriously, the guy is SEXY.

Bahaha!

I love Brian's fish eye.

The set for Wicked. It was SO GOOD.

And at midnight (after Wicked) we were introduced to Empanada Mama's. Jason said, "Mmmm, can we have these every day?" 

And we went to M+M World. :-)

Brian's cousin has a dog named Benjamin Franklin. What a wonderful name! Benny was pretty great, snuggled right up to us as soon as we arrived at the apartment.

My favorite part about Wicked is Jason's constant (and random) exclamations about "How Awesome Wicked Was!" --Seriously, we will be brushing our teeth and Jason will just stop and say, "Wicked was soooo good!" ha! love that kid.

Brian and Naomi are such good friends, it was great to see them, and hard to part ways from them.

Our bus ride home was perfect. I had purchased 10am tickets from NYC to Boston, but we ended up getting to the bus terminal around 8am, so we caught that bus, and we were home in Manchester by 3pm.

love, love.