Ahh, well now that I am freshly...refreshed from a good nite's sleep, i think it's time to tell of my day in NYC

As usualy, my alarm didn't go off so dana ended up waking me up at 7:30 telling me to get dressed right now. Our train was coming at 8:20. We had almost no hope that we were going to make it. Yet miraculously we got there....actually we got there early so we definitely rock for that. We got on the train at Mahwah and headed towards our transfer spot, Seacaucus. There, we got on a train towards Penn Station which meant NYC.

At penn station we decided we'd be taking the subway to get to the spa so, since it wasn't even ten yet and our appt was at 11 we got some breakfast. I got a blueberry muffin and some vanilla flavored coffee which were both really good. I didn't expect it to be cuz it was just outta some deli place in penn station, but it was really great.

I guess around 10:15ish we left to take the subway. We deced to get the all day fun pass metro card cuz it was only 7 bucks and we were probably gonna take the subway to canal street later. So we got that and then headed onto our first ride to 86th street. We looked like such newbies cuz we were standing and every time the train moved we flew back into each other. lol but we did have fun trying to mock the "please stand clear of the closing doors!" 'bee' 'boo' (that was the bell lol) so then we got down to 86th street, which then we got on another train to lexington ave, which is where the spa was. When we got there, we started getting a little nervous cuz it did not look like there was going to be any spa on this street. We thought of all the worst things, that it was some guys apartment, that it didn't exist, that it was gonna be in an ally somewhere....but then we finally saw it. At first we thought it was the door that had bars on it, but then we realized it was the one next door to it, which wasn't as scary looking.

We walked inside to what was a very small, but long, place. It was kinda middle-eastern looking. Nicole thinks the women running it were jewish...hehe. I think they were just like i dunno, not indian but they had a very thick accent. Like russian? i dunno what it was. But yeah they did try screwing us over a bit but we're smarter than that. Like first the lady tried telling us we had different appointments from 11-2, but then devon whipped out her paper saying that NO it was 2 at 11 and 2 at 12. She agreed, even tho i think this all meant nothing in the end cuz we were kinda of all going one after another...like dev got her pedicure, then dana got her pedicure while dev got her hair washed, then dana got her hair washed, then dev got her hair cut, then i got my hair washed, then colie got her hair washed, then i got my manicure, then my hair was cut, and colie got her manicure....like i dunno it was weird, like i think we left around 3ish or 4 anyway...it was all because this one girl did like everything for us. I felt so bad for her. She was calling the other two ladies that worked there stupid.

Those ladies were tho. I mean, this one girl is doing our pedi/mani cures, washing our hair, waxing our eyebrows and lips...i mean that was pretty much everything we had done to us and she did it all. The one woman that gave us the hard time in the first place, all she did was cut our hair and try to convince us to pay 95 bucks for highlights. no thankya. Even tho she did bring the price down to 65, we still didn't want it. Then when the manager came in, all she did was her own hair. I think the only work she did for us was that she started to dry my hair, but then some ppl came in and she handed it off to the highlites lady.

When we finally left, we decided to get some lunch, so we went to the McDonalds down the street. Then we took the subway again to Canal street, which is basically Chinatown. It was kinda cool being down there. All the ppl basically sold the same bags and jewelry, but the tricky part was trying to find the nicest stuff for the cheapest amount. I only bought these faux chanel earrings for my mom cuz they were 5 bucks and i thought they were really pretty. Either way, it was still just a crazy part of town, and if i had more money i probably would have bought a bag or some earrings. Yet, i started the day w/ 60 and i came home w/ 5 bucks in my pocket.

So after canal street, we took the subway back to Penn St. What was cool was when we came out of the subway, and onto the street, we were looking right at the empire state building. It was really awesome. But then we went into penn station and waited around till our train came at 7:18. The train was packed and we had to stand going to Seacaucus. The good thing was is that i think it was only about 5-10 min going there. When we made our transfer, dana was standing outside, but me, dev and colie were standing inside. Then we see Dana running towards someone, so we go outside and see that Sami (our friend from 303) was there! We knew she had gone to the city w/ two of her friends but we never caught up w/ her. So on the train ride home we sat in the last car all togther and talked about our days in the city.

So here are some scary/funny things i left out...
On one of the subway rides there was this balding red hair guy sitting behind us as we all clung to one poll. I don't know what we were saying that was so funny but he kept laughing to himself at us, and then nicole thinks he kept looking at us and giving us eyes...ick

On that same ride, colie saw another old balding guy pick his nose. I'm glad i missed that lol

There is this one escalater that must have been like 40 feet high. i dunno if that expresses tallnes, but it was really tall and steep. We took a picture of it so if you go to dana's pics you'll probably see it soon enough.

We got kicked out of one of the little shops on canal street cuz this chinese guy thought we were stealing. Dana was just trying stuff on, and they told her she could too. She put all the stuff back so they are just asses for kicking us out like that, seeing how they steal a lot of the stuff they sell anyway.

This is turning out to be quite long isn't it. Sorry, just a little bit more to go...

When i returned to school, we stopped at the on-campus conveniant store and i got some stoffers french bread pizza. That was my dinner haha, it was quite good, you can ask erin, cuz i showed her a pic of me eating it.

I talked w/ jeff for a little while then he played age of empires w/ keith and british mike. I decided to go back to my room and eat that pizza. Then i layed in bed and watched some tv, but i was falling asleep fast. So jeff came over for a bit and i told him i was going to bed and he could come by later. So i went to bed, and i guess around 3 or 4 he came in, telling me he was drunk...haha so i'm like ok and then he left again i guess to drink more and i went back to sleep. Then it was 5 when he came into my room again saying that he had just puked twice and he felt so sick cuz he drank too much. Ay yi yi...so then he layed w/ me for a while but left again to puke some more. Right now he's asleep, i hope he doesn't feel too sick today...poor baby.

So i've just been sitting here, writing this blog cuz me, dana, dev and nicole were supposed to go to the baseball scrimmage, buuuut i think they might all be asleep still? I dunno. I don't really mind that i got up at 11 tho cuz i seriously went to bed at like 11:30 last night, was so beat. Aaaanyways. I dunno what i'll do today now. I am hungry tho...maybe i'll have another pizza :) yum!

mood: refreshed and happy
music: frank sinatra - new york, new york