Cousin from Japan...

[ericamanda01]

1. Visit Empire State Building
2. Shop in Chinatown
3. Go to a fancy "New York style" steak house
4. Visit East Village
5. Go to a jazz club
6. See Blueman Group
7. Shop along 5th Avenue
8. Visit Ground Zero
9. See Statue of Liberty
10. See Central Park
11. Get coffee in Greenwich Village (NO idea what that's about)
12. Take a boat tour of Manhattan
13. Go to Brooklyn
14. Go to Rockefeller Center
15. Tour Radio City Music Hall
16. And if we have time, see a Broadway show

I got tired just reading this list! Rick I wish you luck!

 

[Disneydreaming6]

Any book you wrote I would be the first in line to buy. I love reading your posts. I would love to get a tour of NY from tourguide Rick, we could go shopping, You for martinis me for pocketbooks. I'll pay of course.

 

[Bichon Barb]

Oh! And I forgot MOMA! She wants to spend time at the Museum of Modern Art.

This is what I figure we'd do:

Pick them up at Amtrak at 1:30pm and take them to their hotel. Try my best to make sure the girl hasn't driven Mom out of her mind during the three hour train ride.

Hotel is in Time Square so give them a quick tour of the area, then walk over to 5th Avenue and set them loose shopping. Try my best to make sure Mom still has control of her wits through Purse/Shoe Therapy.

Carry Mom's bags, scoff at the girlie girl and make her carry her own dang stuff while I take them across town to Gallagher's for said, "fancy New York style steak house." Get Mom a Margarita and me a gigantic martini and keep 'em coming. Of course, insure sanity is still part of Mom's vocabulary.

Drop off their crap at the hotel after dinner, hop on the subway so I can scare the bejesus out of the girl in hopes of some reality treatment. Make sure Mom is still pleasantly buzzed from the margarita. Take them to the Blue Note for some jazz as she requested, in the hope that perhaps the music will act as Prozac and make her nod off, ditch her accordingly so Mom and I can go to a cabaret to tie one on. Margaritas and martinis.

Reality strikes me when I realize she hasn't passed out to the lull of some modern jazz, so I take them both through Greenwich Village to a coffee house for desert for chick, and LOTS of coffee for Mom. She has now apparently stopped loving margaritas and has also forgotten how to speak English.

Hop in a cab and take them back to their hotel, drop them off and I head home to sleep off my martini induced hang over.

That's the first night of planning. Thoughts?

Hey Rick! That sounds like my kinda night! Can I come?

 

[RickinNYC]

Hey Rick! That sounds like my kinda night! Can I come?

BARB! What's shakin' woman?! Haven't seen you on the DIS in a long time.

And yep, you can join me. Syracuse isn't THAT far away!

 

[Bichon Barb]

BARB! What's shakin' woman?! Haven't seen you on the DIS in a long time.

And yep, you can join me. Syracuse isn't THAT far away!

Hi handsome!

You know, it's ridiculous that I live so close to NYC, and I haven't been there since I was a teen. I guess the JetBlue Terminal at JFK doesn't count?

Not much new here. Back to the daily grind after a very exciting Christmas in London. (I feel so posh saying that. ) It was a lot of fun, but now I want to start planning a cruise with some crazy old Tagliarchy friends. (wink wink) I just have to figure out how I could win the lottery.

Wanna see a picture from our fancy Christmas Day dinner? Don't laugh. It was about 1/3 the price of eating in a hotel restaurant, and the kids were really happy about it.

P.S. Stop by the ********* sometime and say hi.

 

[Bichon Barb]

I didn't know the site was so controversial.