Anyways onto the juicy stuff-that's what you're all here for, right?
Remember that time I rode a train for six hours with Adam to go see a three hour concert?
Yea, well, it was Adam's birthday, too so yesterday we gave him is present:
A Trip to the Big Apple.
Aunt Patti, Adam and I left at 7am and drove all the way into Brooklyn. Aside from my first trip to New York when my mom, Adam and I took a tour bus to Rockefeller Plaza this was the first time I really experienced New York City driving up close and personal and lemme tell ya it.is.scary. We had probably six near death experience within a span of twenty second and it took us at least half an hour to find a public parking garage-you do the math. We all kept our cool though and within another half an hour or so we were in Time Square.
We went to New York City completely without a plan. We'd all been there before so there wasn't anything we completely-had-to-see-before-we-die, but for the first two hours or so we were looking for a game plan. We wandered around Time Square, down to Central Park, up 5th Ave, around Rockefeller Plaza, and then we hit 6th Ave and things got interesting. The majority of 6th Ave was turned into a huge market. Traffic was cut off from going up and down 6th and food, clothing, and souvenir vendors set up shop for blocks. It was a stroke of pure luck that we came upon this because I was starting to get nervous about what to do next. We knew we wanted to shop but we didn't know where, enter: all the NYC souvenirs a person could ask for. My Aunt picked up a few Christmas gifts and I bought a "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster for my dorm room, Adam and I split a crepe...
AAAAAAND THEN we met up with my Aunt Brenda and Uncle Brian and Katie, they were visiting for the day too. Thanks to facebook my Aunt realized we'd all be in the city at the same time so we "ran into each other" on 37th street and then got down to some classic New York City sightseeing. We went to Battery Park to see the Statue of Liberty, obtained some necessary grub that I inhaled so quickly I don't think I tasted it, and then to Ground Zero.
After that we went our separate ways. We were headed back to Brooklyn and they were headed Uptown. By now it was around 5pm and Adam's birthday present really hadn't even begun. The reason we came all the way to NYC was for a christian hip-hop music awards show called Kingdom Choice Awards. I made him sit through a Jason Mraz and he asked me to go with him to watch an awards show for a genre of music I know absolutely zero about. Payback, sweet, sweet payback.
Enough commentary, I promised pictures:
We walked back around 6:30 to find our seats and give Adam the chance to mix and mingle some more. Aunt Patti and I were rather out of place to say the least. The awards show was like stepping into a different culture, this was interesting, comical, and really eye-opening all at once, but during the half hour before the show began while I was still adjusting I had no clue what to do so I whipped out my handy-dandy newspaper that I picked up earlier and entertained myself.
On the way out we met one more artist who found out we were there for Adam's birthday so he gave him a free CD and my Aunt a free t-shirt. I'd call that a successful evening.
That's all I've got for now. Have a lovely rest of your weekend :) and make sure to have an adventure this week.
Ciaociaociaociao.