We had an awesome weekend, in case any of you cared to hear about it:
TONS of Sox fans at the baseball game. Our section was full of them for some reason. And damn is the 3rd tier steep!
Sox won that game. It was great!
No one hassled us on the train afterward either
The game went a little long, but we still managed to squeeze in everything we wanted to do afterward.
Oh and the B-2 bomber flybye at the game was so friggin sweet!!!! We also saw 3 Blackhawks fly nearby a little later, but no idea why.
We didn't have to wait in much of a line after the game to get on the train. We got an express train too, so we flew downtown. We spent quite a lot of time at WTC, looking at the site and all the pictures, etc. We walked around the entire site, also marvelling at the state of some of the buildings in the area. I saw a program on parallels between 9/11 and Vesuvius yesterday, so after visiting the site, the program really hit me a bit harder than if I had never visited at all. Truly a moving experience.
We then shot over to Chinatown. There was a little festival going on on one of the streets, and it was packed full of people. We didn't enter it, just sorta walked around a bunch of random blocks and just had a look-see. Our friend,Chris, bought a watch for the hell of it.
Then we shot over to Empire State, just to say we were there. Snapped a pic from the ground, and then went to a pizza place a block or two away. OMFG greatest pizza ever! seriously, I'm orgasming now thinking of it.
I only got one slice just to say I had NY pizza, but I wanted the whole pie!!!!! We were saving our appetites for dinner later.
So then we went to Times Square to see the crazy lights. I've never been to an ESPN zone, so we were going to just get a drink and look around, but then decided to put our name in for dinner. The wait was short.
The food was meh. I had a burger and the meat was just sucky. I wasn't expecting much to begin with I guess since we were originally there for the atmosphere, but I still wish it would have tasted better.
We should have just pigged out on pizza instead. hehe
Then we shot over to Grand Central, and got our tickets for the 1:15 commuter rail back to Rye. We zonked out hardcore on the train back.
I forgot to mention - Saturday morning Mike went to check on the GL. He went to disarm the alarm (it came with the car and I hate that thing), and the car went all wonky. Battery was drained because the fog lights were on all night. (Mike isn't used to the location of the fog light switch, and we weren't with him when he parked the car)
I think the foglights burned out too. So we disconnected the battery because the alarm was making a warbled whine, and we left for the Yankee's game.
Our hotel was full of triathletes that were checking out on Sunday, so after asking a ton of them if they had cars with jumper cables, we eventually found some guys from Massachusetts. lol
So jumped the car, let it charge, then went to grab some quick Dunkin Donuts breakfast down the street.
We also hit the supermarket for some beer. I got me a 12 pack of Yuengling, and I was happier than a pig in poop for finding it. I should have bought a large warm pack to bring home too, but I didn't think of it at the time.
So I packed it into the cooler and we drove down to the Meadowlands. We arrived there at 1:45 - we made awesome time, barely any traffic.
Tailgated with some munchies and awesome beer, and then watched a kick ass game - Pats won!
neener!
The food selection at Giants stadium sucks. I pity those fans. No draft beer!! wtf!! It was a really nice stadium though. I enjoyed the layout, the noise levels and the seats were comfortable.
So it was a spectacular weekend. The traffic getting out of the stadium was horrendous.
Worse traffic after a football game we have ever experienced.
It made me regret not bringing the laptop with GPS to find cool reroutes.
oh wells. We were in no rush to get home, but it just kinda sucked.
We got home at 2:30 am, put the rest of the precious beer in the fridge and crashed.
