Wednesday August 27th I went to my dads hotel on 54th and 6 ave. I said Hi to him and then i was off to get a huge fruit bowl and then headed up stairs to organize the clothes that he brought for me. I stayed in his room while he finished his conference. once he was done we went and got dinner at an indian place called Darbar! the food was yummy! After that we walked around times square and got some M&Ms! Then we went back to the hotel, planned out how we were going to get everything done during the weekend. Then we went and bought tickets to Phantom of the Opera and then i was off back to school.
Friday morning I headed back to the Hilton at 5:30am got there at 7am, yeah its a long trip to manhattan. Once i got there dad and I ran 6 miles around Central Park! then we took showers and headed for the art stores! we went to utrecht first and got tons of art supplies! the ones that we didnt end up getting we went around the corner to New York Central and got the rest! After we were done spending tons of money on art things, we ate a very yummy lunch at Chipotle. Crazy though, here its 7 something for anything on there menu, where at home its like 4 something. After we were done eating we headed back to the hotel to drop off all the stuff and then we headed to Costco in Long island! We ended up getting on the wrong subway! but thankfully it was on stop away from its last stop so we were forced to get off! lol once we found the right subway, we shopped and shopped! once we spent another huge amount of money on food and paper we had an adventure trying to get a taxi ride back to my school. We ended up having two people duke it out for our services, and we got them to lower the price from $50 to $40! We really didnt realize how far away the costco was from my school, because any normal taxi it would of been a heck of a bill so $40 dollars wasnt bad! the taxi driver was really nice he said he was from Columbia and all his family still lived back there. So once we dropped the stuff off at my dorm room, we headed back to manhattan to go see the Phantom of the Opera!! It was a really cool play! the sets were amazing! I personally liked the voice of the girl in the movie rather than the girl in the play, but it was still awesome to see! At the play there was a lady from Barcelona and she was speaking spainsh that i could actually understand! it was cool! I definitely couldnt translate everything she was saying but, i could at least get the jist of what she was saying! it was kinda nice to hear someone talk like they did on those listening test i always had in school!
After the play we went back to the hotel and fell asleep!
Saturday we woke up really early and headed back to my dorm room with all my art supplies and clothes in hand! I pretty much took up the whole room, this weekend. Once we got there we quickly dumped all my stuff off and then ran to the bus to head to target. we took two buses and got to a mall but we had to ask someone where the target was because it definitley wasnt were I was thinking it was going to be. But we eventually found it. The target was sadly under stocked and i wasnt able to finish all the shopping i wanted to while we were there. but once we got everything we could we found a faster way home by subway and ended up taking all my stuff back to the dorm room. I was supposed to have class on Sat. so the whole day was us trying to hurry to get back, but when i got the classroom it was deserted. No teacher, no note, no students, So i assumed we didnt have class and me and dad went and got some pizza at reginas cafe. then we went back and started organizing my room! it took quite a while! after we were done we ordered chinese food and started shopping online to get the rest of the stuff we werent able to find instore. Dad and I were both pretty tired so he left around 7pm and i fell asleep quickly after!
Friday morning I headed back to the Hilton at 5:30am got there at 7am, yeah its a long trip to manhattan. Once i got there dad and I ran 6 miles around Central Park! then we took showers and headed for the art stores! we went to utrecht first and got tons of art supplies! the ones that we didnt end up getting we went around the corner to New York Central and got the rest! After we were done spending tons of money on art things, we ate a very yummy lunch at Chipotle. Crazy though, here its 7 something for anything on there menu, where at home its like 4 something. After we were done eating we headed back to the hotel to drop off all the stuff and then we headed to Costco in Long island! We ended up getting on the wrong subway! but thankfully it was on stop away from its last stop so we were forced to get off! lol once we found the right subway, we shopped and shopped! once we spent another huge amount of money on food and paper we had an adventure trying to get a taxi ride back to my school. We ended up having two people duke it out for our services, and we got them to lower the price from $50 to $40! We really didnt realize how far away the costco was from my school, because any normal taxi it would of been a heck of a bill so $40 dollars wasnt bad! the taxi driver was really nice he said he was from Columbia and all his family still lived back there. So once we dropped the stuff off at my dorm room, we headed back to manhattan to go see the Phantom of the Opera!! It was a really cool play! the sets were amazing! I personally liked the voice of the girl in the movie rather than the girl in the play, but it was still awesome to see! At the play there was a lady from Barcelona and she was speaking spainsh that i could actually understand! it was cool! I definitely couldnt translate everything she was saying but, i could at least get the jist of what she was saying! it was kinda nice to hear someone talk like they did on those listening test i always had in school!
After the play we went back to the hotel and fell asleep!
Saturday we woke up really early and headed back to my dorm room with all my art supplies and clothes in hand! I pretty much took up the whole room, this weekend. Once we got there we quickly dumped all my stuff off and then ran to the bus to head to target. we took two buses and got to a mall but we had to ask someone where the target was because it definitley wasnt were I was thinking it was going to be. But we eventually found it. The target was sadly under stocked and i wasnt able to finish all the shopping i wanted to while we were there. but once we got everything we could we found a faster way home by subway and ended up taking all my stuff back to the dorm room. I was supposed to have class on Sat. so the whole day was us trying to hurry to get back, but when i got the classroom it was deserted. No teacher, no note, no students, So i assumed we didnt have class and me and dad went and got some pizza at reginas cafe. then we went back and started organizing my room! it took quite a while! after we were done we ordered chinese food and started shopping online to get the rest of the stuff we werent able to find instore. Dad and I were both pretty tired so he left around 7pm and i fell asleep quickly after!
Sunday I woke up at 10am and started getting ready to go to church. Dad came at around 11am with some dunkin donuts! soon after we headed to the bus stop to go find the church. We totally passed it on the way and had to follow some missionaries to the building.
The outside of the church blended in so well you would have never thought it was a place where church would be held at all. We got there a little early, but it was good because I got to meet a girl named leda! She was so sweet and she told me how singles ward only meets in Manhattan. Leda is 21 and goes to school to become a teacher! She speaks three different languages and she teaches seminary! Shes a busy girl, oh and she works as a teacher at a school! She was really nice and im really glad i met her! once we went inside to sacrament meeting tons of people came and introduced themselves to us! everyone was really friendly! We met two of the women missionaries, one was from Salt lake, and the other was from Idaho! they were really nice as well! After church we had headed back to my dorm room to change. We had to wait forever to catch the bus, but it worked out and I ran to my dorm room, changed as fast as i could. then we got on the bus, then the subway and headed back to the hilton so that we both could change into our Human Race t shirts! then we got a taxi to the pier where we caught the ferry to randal island! there were so many people in red shirts! We got there in perfect timing and stood for a while in a huge line of people. They started the race around 6:30pm and we didnt get across the start line until ten minutes past the start time! the race was a 10k! It was pretty easy incline wise, but the only part that was pretty funny on nikes part was that there was a foot bridge that could only take so many people on it, so it slowed everyone down! we were standing waiting to get across it for like 5 minutes. but we ended up finishing the race together! and then we got free power bars, a bracelet for finishing, and some bare naked gronola with yogurt! it was yummy! After the race they had the All american rejects perform! It was so cool! there are really good live! I had a lot of fun! after the concert we got back on the ferry and went back to the hotel and went and got some food at a food stand outside. The line for the food stand was like 20 minutes long. I guess this cart is famous for its food! it was rice and lettuce with chicken and lamb and some pita bread! it was sooo yummy i pretty much ate the whole thing i was so hungry! after that I fell asleep at one in the morning only to get up at 4:30 am to take a shower. Dad got up and we both said bye to the hotel room and said our goodbyes to each other and then I headed on to the subway which was deserted at 5:30 in the morning and Dad headed to the airport!
We finished!!! YAY!!
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