Heading Out

Well, I'm off to New York tomorrow morning - Miss Becky will pick us up at 6:00 in the morning. I'm very nervous and not really looking as forward to this trip as i should. i've always wanted to go to New York but with myTed or my BFF. I've wanted to stay in the more luxurious hotels and visit Broadway and Central Park and FAO Swartz. I am not too sure about the Holiday Inn Express in a downtown Brooklyn that is under construction and has the run down look of any ole downtown in any ole large city. myTed went to Google maps and did a street level walk about from the motel to Caroline's house and then out and about through New York. I am much more worried and anxious now after seeing the street level views than I was at the bird's eye view.

There is no parking at the motel - well actually there is, 16 spaces for compact cars and the price is $24.oo a day. Wow. The subway is supposedly a 13 minute walk (course they don't know how slowly I walk) and then there is a six-minute subway ride to the station closest to Caroline's house and the walk to where she is. Caroline has already told us that we'll hate the subway - "it's dirty and smelly and crowded" but she loves it (how weird is that?).

I want to see a few things. Quite a few things really. I want to see Ground Zero. The Brooklyn Zoo. The Statue of Liberty. The Museum of Natural History. FAO Swartz. There is a botanical garden near Caroline's home. Central Park would be kewl too.

sigh ...

just wish the circumstances were different.