ROAD TRIP!!!!

Just finished a road trip vaca with karent, BFF (yeah, third grade) and I went to NYC and Mass on a fiberous adventure. KT got a late start out of her place last Saturday, so she missed the Sushi (we went back last night, yummm) but we got some to go for her and we had wine (a recurring theme here) at home. Took off from DC mid Sunday morning and we were off. Like a herd of turtles. Just north of Columbia, MD we decided we were hungry. VERY hungry. Told K2 (the Garmin voice, also named "karen", so became K2) to find us a Five Guys. I don't remember signing a "No heathly Food Pact", but there must have been one. Yep, pretty sure 'bout that. After driving the same 7 miles of road back and forth and a bridge outage, we determined the fates must have been warning us about 5 Guys and just went to Burger King. It's no 5 Guys, but they do have onion rings. Glad we stopped and took care of biological needs, as we weren't back on the road 5 minutes when we hit the first traffic jam. About an hour for 3 miles or so. Not sure, I may have lost consciencenous for a few minutes...



For the next adventure, I blame K2, afterall it's an electronic devise and can't defend itself. Reality is that we put the wrong addy into it. Whatever. Either way we ended up in Statten Island, not Manhatten. Some one asked me "Where in Statten Island were you?" My only response was "the bad part". YIKES! Back across the bridge (which one????), back to Jersy, and finally into Manhatten. WOO-HOO!




The hotel was right across from Ground Zero - in fact it was closed for 20 months for repairs. Guess they never got around to the Internet service. ERRRRRG! And next to Trinity Church. Other than a plethora of guys selling knock-off hand bags - yeah, I'm sportin' myself a Pierre Cardin - not much was going on. A throng of commuters to/from PATH was the next best. We were next to a Subway station, though.

Next entry will be the FABRIC SHOPPING!! le raison d'etre. Or at least raison da be in NYC.

For now, I will leave you with this picture. It was in a square just outside the PATH station. Do any of you native lurkers (do I have any of those???) know what the heck it is???? I think it's a giant balloon animal gone bad.