NYC, CT
For the most part, had a had a good time on my trip earlier this week. Got up first thing on Sunday and drove up to the MSP airport (all the flights out of RST had been booked, so I couldn't get a flight out closer to home). Direct flight to La Guardia. Picked up the rental and set off for Manhattan to meet up with uncbiscuit. Chrissy and Andrew were great tour guides--Chrissy and I had lunch at Tom's Diner and then we cut across central Park and met up with Andrew at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Spent most of our time until the museum closed looking at a coule of the Egyptian exhibits, as well as a few minutes looking at some of the European masters and the medieval Arms and Armor exhibit. They then took me down to Chinatown and Little Italy and we had a lengthy dinner at one of the many Italian restaurants down there. Andrew had his first banana split ever. We then went down to Times Square so that I can now say I'm been there.
Met up with them again Monday morning and had brunch out by Columbia where Andrew goes to school. At Chrissy's suggestion, I took the parkway from NYC up to the Hartford area and it was very beautiful. Stopped in Stamford to see the Stamford Museum and Nature Center--not really worth the stop, but the scenery was nice. Decided, based on my time on the parkway and in Farmington, that I like Conneticut and based on that and my trips to Vermont, I like New England.
I think that I was meant to be someplace with trees. CT was very green and it made me feel the same way that Portland did when I went there for work 6 years ago or so--the same way that Copper Harbor makes me feel. One of the things I really dislike about Rochester is the fact that when you get outside the city limits, the trees largely disappear and it's just farmfields--you have to get yourself to the blufflands to see anything decent for forests.
Checked in at my hotel in Farmington and hung out in the room for a while before going out to dinner with Steve Karr. Unfortunately lost a bunch of time on my email which was acting up that evening. Tuesday at the suppliers was good, if a little rushed because I needed to get back to La Guardia for my flight out. Tried to get on an earlier flight on standby, but it was packed so I didn't get on. Got rooked by the Fox Sports bar at the airport and talked to ivegotthe411 for a few minutes about fraternity stuff before catching my crowded flight back to MSP. Grabbed my luggage which had arrived over an hour before I did and drove home. It was warmer in MN than it had been the whole three days out east, so I drove most of the way home with the windows down. And as she usually does, my little girl smiled at me when I came through the door.
Met up with them again Monday morning and had brunch out by Columbia where Andrew goes to school. At Chrissy's suggestion, I took the parkway from NYC up to the Hartford area and it was very beautiful. Stopped in Stamford to see the Stamford Museum and Nature Center--not really worth the stop, but the scenery was nice. Decided, based on my time on the parkway and in Farmington, that I like Conneticut and based on that and my trips to Vermont, I like New England.
I think that I was meant to be someplace with trees. CT was very green and it made me feel the same way that Portland did when I went there for work 6 years ago or so--the same way that Copper Harbor makes me feel. One of the things I really dislike about Rochester is the fact that when you get outside the city limits, the trees largely disappear and it's just farmfields--you have to get yourself to the blufflands to see anything decent for forests.
Checked in at my hotel in Farmington and hung out in the room for a while before going out to dinner with Steve Karr. Unfortunately lost a bunch of time on my email which was acting up that evening. Tuesday at the suppliers was good, if a little rushed because I needed to get back to La Guardia for my flight out. Tried to get on an earlier flight on standby, but it was packed so I didn't get on. Got rooked by the Fox Sports bar at the airport and talked to ivegotthe411 for a few minutes about fraternity stuff before catching my crowded flight back to MSP. Grabbed my luggage which had arrived over an hour before I did and drove home. It was warmer in MN than it had been the whole three days out east, so I drove most of the way home with the windows down. And as she usually does, my little girl smiled at me when I came through the door.