Here I is!

[crispini]

Yippie! I'm back! YeeeHA!!!! NYC was GREAT! Managed to catch *five* Broadway shows. How I love Broadway!!!! Rent, (the choice of the coworkers), All Shook Up, (Elvis musical, a friend is a "silent producer" so I *had* to see it, and it was cute), Sweet Charity (which was excellent), Lennon, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Lennon is still in previews but it was by far the most emotional and touching. I actually cried. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was soooooo freakin funny, and it was really cool to see John Lithgow in person. Had a faaaaaabulous time sightseeing, running all over the subways and seeing the neighborhoods and the Met and the shopping and so on and on. I wanna move there. :D

Bunny -- got your message, sorry you got poison ivy! And Gogi, sorry about the mixup.... :( I got a little confused about the time and couldn't find the PM so I thought I'd call to confirm and we see how that worked out. Well what with Mercury being retrograde, these mixups will happen. Sorry to hear your trip was so confused -- guess that's Mercury again. Bummer about your leg -- oddly enough I whacked the crap out of my little toe on a subway turntile and limped around for the next two days and it STILL hurts. Owie! Oh, and the plane trip home today? Took EIGHT freakin hours. Oh well, if that's the worst thing in my life I'm doing dandy.

Let's see, group stuff -- where are Botany's vacation pics? I saw references but no link? And the stills of KO sans makeup: absolutely ADORABLE. He looked guy-like instead of newscaster-like. Very nice.

See ya'll on Monday, I think! :hi:

[gkhouston]

1. welcome back

sounds like NY is hard on toes. I'll have to remember that if I'm ever lucky enough to go there!

[crispini]

5. Honestly, I think it's broken.

Still hurts. :(

[RevCheesehead]

2. You're so Cosmo, dahling!

FIVE shows??? Golly.

But no Keith sightings. *sigh* He knows how to hide.

I'll try to post Botany's pictures - gotta figure how to get them out of e-mail and on to Photobucket. He's a bit worried how you'll react to one of them, so I'd keep the pic of the wheel handy if you've got it, just to keep him in line.

edit/DUH. Welcome back, Crispi! :hi:

[crispini]

6. I just adore NYC.

There's always something wonderful to do. Honestly, between Broadway, the opera, plays, music, and the museums, if I lived there, I'd spend every nickel I had on the arts and be as poor as a churchmouse -- but happy!

[WolverineDG]

3. FIVE SHOWS???

rub it in, dammit, rub it in....glad to hear you had a great time. glad to see someone else is up to speed w/mercury retrograde....this one's a bear for me & i have to get on a plane tomorrow morning....

dg

[Berry Cool]

4. You really made the most of it.

Glad you had a good time!

[crispini]

8. I took KO's recommendation...

on Things To Do at Ground Zero and went to the church there to see the exhibit. It was quite heart-rending. That was the same day I went to see Lennon, so it was a two-hanky day. And me, I don't cry easily. So it was quite the all-around experience.

[crispini]

7. Good luck on your flight!

Hope you don't get into the mess I did. We stopped in Little Rock for refueling and were there two hours. If they'd let us off we could've all gone to see the Clinton museum! :D

[Gogi]

9. You sound like such fun, Crispi, I'm sorry we missed each other!

I enjoyed NYC and plan on going back but next time I stay in a modern hotel, perhaps the Grand Hyatt! What I did experience was wonderfull but , boy, is that city loud! Next time I bring noise filtering earphones. Manhattan and London are now the only two places I want to re-visit.

[crispini]

10. Yeah, it's too bad about the mixup!

I looked and looked through my PMs and for the life of me I couldn't find the time. :silly:

Earphones would probably be good. And hotels ... yeah ... I haven't found one yet that's the perfect combination of price, location, and facilities. The convention is always booked in at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square but by heaven they have not fixed their elevators in the TWO YEARS I've been going there. When you have to wait half an hour to go to your room, that kinda bites. My absolute fave is the Chelsea Hotel, just because of its historical coolness, but it ain't exactly modern. And the only facilities are -- the art. :P

Now there's a VERY modern Hyatt (I think it's a Hyatt) just over the Brooklyn bridge, which would be nice if you were doing stuff in downtown, and it had *all* the standard hotel convienences.