Some Recapping Action

So...NYC happened and it was great. here's a summary as best I can remember, day by day.

Thursday- At 7 i roll out of my tangled up bed and proceed to stumble around my room, frantically stuffing clothing, toothpaste and a comb (?) into my backpack. I have a long minute of panic over what shoes to bring, since every single time I have been in NYC I choose shoes wrongly and get horrible blisters as punishment. Then I go wake up the random teenagers that are crashed out in the office and force them to move their vehicle which is parking me in. I hop behind the wheel, plug in the adress of Baltimore Amtrak into my GPS and off I go.

I did not, however, really plan for morning commute traffic and so I arrive at the Amtrak with 5 minutes to spare and am forced to practically abandon my car without a second glance at the exact location in which its parked. Oh well. My train ride was lovely and dreamy, zooming along the chesapeake and its contributing rivers then inland through the modern ruins of Philadelphia and New Jersey.

I arrive in Penn Station and then proceed through the subways to arrive sweaty and limp at Sax's front door. She swings me up into a hug and, after handing me an icy beer, launches into all the gossip I've missed in the last month. Perfect. Caleb arrives an even sweatier mess about 3 hours later and we all lay about panting for a few minutes before it's already time to leave for Coney Island, where our concert is being held.

As our sub pulls into the Coney station we realize with sinking hearts that tickets are still at Sax's house and now we must turn around and ride the sub all over again. And then again. We finally arrived to Hipster-Heaven with 2 minutes to spare and then proceeded to enjoy the best concert ever. My brother has an excellent recap in his LJ, here. Afterwards we stumbled back onto the train and sat smiling and sweaty with hundreds of other youngpeople in exactly the same condition. Except for the kid who puked into his fedora....he was in a worse state.

We were planning on going out to bars but upon returning to Sax's we were much to wrung out and so we got a beer and some greasy diner food and sat up on the roof of her building for a bit. The view was spectacular and the vibe was mellow and pleasant. I turned in earlier than Caleb and Sax, climbing into Sax's beautiful red bed and falling asleep the second my head hit the pillow. Sax climbed in an hour later and as she pulled me close and snuggled her curly head into my neck, I mumbled sleepily to her that she is a great friend and how happy I was.


end point day 1

day 2 will be tomorrow since i am tired and want to nap.