The Kotex Twins Take On NYC

Yesterday was my first trip to NYC, and I have to say I was impressed. Not just at the scenery, but I fully expected the New Yorkers to be rude, you know your stereo typical "New Yorker". But I was pleasently surprised, apparently us Bostonians are the rude ones :) But Yankees fans still suck :) Any ways, we arrived in New York around 10:45 am after a 4 hour bus ride from New Bedford, and we were dropped off infront of Saint Patricks Cathedral. The weather forcast was not too promising for the day, but it hadn't rained .... yet.

Our first stop was the NBA store which was really cool. As with the theme of most major department stores in NYC it was 3 floors of every piece of merchandise that you can imagine, and even some things you didn't even know they made. I stood next to the wall where they have 3 Basketball stars lined up, and apparently I would never make it in the NBA.

We moved on to the lindt chocolate store which was small yet still amazing, atleast the fetus thought so. Then the rain started to make it's appearance for the day. And by appearance I mean grand entrance. We had passed quite a few street vendors "selling" umbrellas but I was far too lazy to carry an umbrella in and out of stores.

We made our way into the FAO Schwarz store, which was cool, but super packed, I'm geussing partly due to the rain. I'm partial to the one in Boston that is no longer around, but this store was still awesome. Theres a new muppet factory tupe thing where you can make your own Jim Hensen muppet. These muppets are the one's that you'd see in the back ground of his movies, the "extras" if you will. The price is a little over $100 and up.

After FAO we visited "The Donald", well not really the Donald himself, but the trump towers. I was in love with the waterfall that was inside next to the restaurant. I was expecting it to be more like the Prudential in Boston where there are more retail store,etc, but the only "retail" I saw there was a starbucks, his restaurant and a closed down "Nike Town". By the time we left the Trump Towers it really started to pour and it was lunch time, so we made our way to a deli down the street from The Radio City Music Hall. We had some really great sandwichs, which were still cheaper than eating at the Mashpee Commons, and watched the rest of the fools struggle with their umbrellas & heels in the down pour.

We moved onto Rockafeller Center and I got to see the skating rink that I've only seen in movies. I also managed to find a hole in the wall store owned by the FDNY which was awesome so I got to pick up a few christmas gifts there. We made our rounds to the usual spots, the NBC store, then down to the Time Square/Broadway area. By the time we made it down to Broadway however the rain got the best of us and my cotton blend scarf was no longer shielding the rain , and I was about to have my "face" washed off, and that just can't happen when you're in NYC :-) So we stopped in one of the many "I Love New York" hole in the wall places, and picked up ponchos. And I automatically grabbed the pink one because it's my faveroite color, and my sister in law grabbed a matching one. Well little did we realize that the combination of the material and the color of the poncho made us look like two giant Kotex Maxi Pads. Super, atleast we weren't gonna get soaked anymore, or have my make up get washed away.

One of our last stops was the Toys R US on Broadway. That place was a trip, packed, but awesome. Theres a ferris wheel inside and the cars are themed like different kids toys, like there was a "My Little Ponies" (my personal fav), Scooby Doo, and a pedal car. I totally would've gone on if the line wasn't so long. Our last stop was St.Patricks Cathedral, which was beautiful beyond words. I'm not of the "Catholic Persuasian", but I was in awe of everything. I even lit a candle and said a prayer to St.jude, even if I am a protestant heathan that prayer sure came in handy on the way home.....

Our bus ride was a whole different store. I probably would have been better off taking that $5 bus that goes from china town to china town and your "seat" is a milk crate next to a goat. I'm pretty sure our bus driver took the tip we gave him and had a "liquid lunch", because he kept racing the other bus driver and he was what I call "driving by braille" or using the grooved pavement as his guide. I'm also fairly certain that I need to make an appointment with a chiropractor because of the ride, there were noises coming from the bus that I was not familiar nor comfortable with. Good news though, it 's supposedly going into the shop today, probably to install the shocks that it didn't have ..... But over all, regardless of the incliment weather, or riding on the flying dutchman, I had a great first trip to NYC, but it's true what they say, "theres no place like home".