NYC - Day 1

Our NYC trip is underway!! It started off with us taking the Van Nuys FlyAway to LAX. My mind was in such a travel-induced/Laker haze that when boarding the bus, we handed our bags to the "Skycap" (which makes no sense since we were at a shuttle loading station) and I forgot to tip him. As we were walking away he belts out "what, no tip??". Whooooops! Number one, homeboy wasn't a real Skycap, and number two, all he did was place our bags under the bus, which I could have done my-damn-self. Moving on.

We flew VirginAmerica non-stop to JFK. They're my new favorite airline to fly. From the mood lighting on the plane, to the touch screen entertainment and food ordering, to the actual power plugs for my laptop, it has everything a chickenshit like myself needs to take their mind off the actual flight.


After channel surfing on Dish Network, watching a Google map of our actual flight in progress, watching a couple of episodes of 24 Season 4 on my laptop, and a small nap, we arrived in NYC! Now to find out where to go from here.


The first time I came to NYC, I remember being discombobulated by their subway maps. Well, the map below is just of the AirTrain, and it still confused the shit out of me. Maybe I'm stupid. Maybe I am a country-bumpkin from LA like my dad says. I like to think that I'm a fairly bright guy, but I actually had to call the help line in the AirTrain station to figure out where to go. I later found out that other LA peeps who came in after us had the same experience. So you see, I ain't that gosh-dang slow after all! Shooooot!


After a nap and thorough cleansing, we headed out to explore Garden City, Long Island, which is the first leg of our NYC trip.


Our first stop The Roosevelt-Something-Or-Other Mall. Oooooooooh!!! As soon as the cab gets here... Which took like 35 minutes. So, um... we had some time to kill.





Once we got to the mall, we needed to fuel our system. The only place to eat was the godforsaken food court which I usually avoid like someone with pink eye, but I had no other choice. We opted for some teppanyaki which was almost impossible to order because I couldn't understand the lady, and to compound a confusing situation we had no order number, so it was very hard to distinguish our "plate" from the others. You can see them all lined up in a row behind me with the "what the fffwhat?" look on my face.


After we ate, E got her nails did.


I was feeling touristy, so I told E to take a picture in front of this placard. I have no idea what it said or what significance it had, it just felt like a Kodak moment.


That pretty much wraps up day 1. Pretty chill and inconsequential. Time to try to round up some booze to take the edge off and hit the sack. Off to day 2!

Labels: nyc, travel

posted by Bdub at 6:32 PM