New York

I spent about five and a half days in New York after I left Oklahoma. It had been over ten years since I'd been in New York, so I was excited to go back for a visit.

I saw a lot of sights. My days started around 8 or 9 and ended from around midnight to 2a.m. Needless to say I was very busy and very tired!

Overall I took around 600 pictures, so obviously I have to pick a few of my favorites to share with you. If you're friends with me on Facebook, you can look for the complete set of photos sometime within the next week. It's obviously taking me a long time to edit all of them.



In front of the Rainbow Room



Mammoth skeleton at the Museum of Natural History



The main set of Wicked



Delish New York Cheesecake at Juniors



The famous lady herself!



The Manhattan Skyline



Of all the pictures I took in New York, I think this is my favorite. It looks like a painting to me.



The Bull of Wall Street



The flowers and parks in New York were gorgeous! This park is by City Hall.



View from the Brooklyn Bridge



Me on the Brooklyn Bridge!

Obviously this just covers a small portion of what I did, but maybe over the coming weeks I can do a few more detailed posts on what I actually got to see and do.

Tales From the Tarmac: Part Deux

Well my journey from the States back to Italy was interesting to say the least.

For starters I wasn't sure I'd make it out of Hometown,Oklahoma. We all boarded a small jet and as we were all settled in, the pilots made an annoucement that the plane was giving an error message and there was something wrong with the fuel injectors. They tell us we all need to get off the plane and see if they can fix it. Unfortunately if they do not there wasn't another flight that day to Atlanta.

10 minutes later they come back on the intercom to inform us they rebooted the computer and the error was gone. To say the passengers were unsettled was an understatement. I hate flying anway, but to fly on what could be a broken plane? Was nervewracking! The girl that was sitting next to me actually opted to get off the plane.

The rest of my flights weren't as scary, but all those that told me the Paris airport was a nightmare were right! Luckily the terminal we landed at was right next to the one I departed from, but that has to be the worst layout in an airport that I've ever seen! I much prefer the layout of Atlanta's airport.

Can I just say though that my flight on Air France was amazing.
1. Free champagne. What's not to like?
2. Amazing food. I had the best meal ever on an airplane on that flight. For breakfast I even had a jar of cinnamon/orange confit. Amazing!
3. Individual viewing screens so you can watch or listen to whatever you want.

I was so glad to make it back safely though. Now I'm just trying to get over this awful jetlag!

Canary Islands

Anyone been? If so...any suggestions?

Just a thought we've been having.

Bedding, Trips and Tips

As you know I'm attempting to decorate my home. So far I've found a few things that I think will help, albeit they are small things.

Yesterday I found this:



Sean and I are in need of new bedding and we both love black and white. I think some accent colors like red or turquoise (not together,don't worry) would punch it up a bit. Your thoughts?

Yesterday started three weeks of absolutley no contact with Sean. Since we first started talking we've never gone this long without texting, etc. So...this should be an interesting three weeks.

I ordered $60 worth of old sorority photos last night that I didn't have the money to buy when I was actually in college. Yeah...it was more than I thought it would be, but I'm excited to be able to put these pics in my scrapbook and honestly if I didn't buy them those events would have been left out as I myself had no pictures of the events. Those were the days before I got my first digital camera.

Did I mention that my parents, brother and I are going to be taking a Greek cruise next summer? I'm so excited! In all honesty it seems like a lot of cruises in Europe aren't that expensive. I'm thinking of taking a couple more while I'm here. I'm still looking for a reasonably priced tour to Russia. If anybody knows of any let me know.