New York City

Last Sunday I went to New York City with Sharonda, Tara, and the Aggies: Jamie L., Jamie H., Amanda, Lisa, and Megan. We left Cedar Crest at 8am and headed to Edison, NJ. We parked there and took the NJ Transit into NYC. We arrived in the city at about 1130am and then purchased tickets to ride the subway. We too a train to our first stop at Yankee Stadium. The 12:00 tour was already sold out so we hung around for the 1:00pm tour. The tour was pretty cool, we got to walk around the stadium, sit in the dugout and see the locker room. We too a ton of pictures, except for in the locker room where they weren't allowed. The tour guide talked a lot about the Yankees history, which was cool, and about their present team as well. Derek Jeter has not one but TWO lockers because he gets so much fan mail, haha. I thought that was funny.

After the tour we hopped back on the Subway and got off at Times Square. Once we got outside I really felt like I was in New York. Everything was exactly as I imagined from what I have seen on tv and in movies. All the shops had big bright signs and there were huge billboards and advertisements everywhere. We stopped and ate pizza for lunch at a place called Ray's. We walked around and went in a few shops and naturally I took a TON of pictures. We saw Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, and MTV studios to name a few.

We got back on the Subway and went downtown to Canal Street for some shopping. It was funny because I've heard stories about all the tiny hidden rooms with fake designer purses, but I didn't really understand until I saw it. We barely made it onto Canal street before a man approached us asking if we were interested in real designer purses. My first instinct was to say no thank you and walk on, but then I remembered that was actually the reason we were there. So, the 8 of us agreed to follow this man 2 blocks down the street, down a hallway and into a closet-sized room full of 100% ''real'' purses. About twenty minutes later we all left there with something; I got a brown Prada purse.

After Canal Street we took the NJ Transit back to our hotel to get ready for take two of the big city. Wilk, Clare, Trena, and Dustin joined us for the evening. We got all dressed up and rode the train back into the city and then took our first cab ride. For dinner we had hot dogs from a street vendor which I thought was very appropriate in our club attire, haha. The club we went to is owned by Jay Z and its called 40/40. Since it was a Sunday night there weren't too many people there, but it was still fun. We were true VIPs with a private room that had couches, a big screen tv and a pool table. At about 3am we finally left the club and went to a place called New Venus Diner for breakfast. We caught the first train back to New Jersey at 4:54 am and it was pretty obvious that we were all exhausted.

Needless to say, I LOVED our trip to New York City, I only wish we could have stayed longer. But then there's always next year...

Today Tom took the rookies to lunch at Brewworks, he loves us :) Right now we are in the middle of our series vs. the Riptide. They won the first game 10-2 and we came back and won game two 2-1. To make the playoffs we have to win 1 of the next 2 games. Lets hope we can get all the wondering over with tonight! I will be posting this on my blog as well, where you can see pictures from NYC.

FLTOG,
Stacy Birk #10 +1