New York, New York

This is going to follow the format of my Europe blogs, which you can find
here. Sorry about the delays between publishings, super busy being me! Enjoy!!!


Thursday

I checked out of school at 2:00, drove home, finished packing and called K.C. one last time before I embarked on the most amazing trip of my life.

My mother and I left, got gas for her mini-van and met my dad at TCU to drive to the airport. Dad was kind of uppity............ complaining of some students who had been asses in class and saying all sorts of swear words randomly. Lol..... ok, so it wasn't really that bad, in fact, it was kind of funny. He doesn't usually get like that.

We arrived at the airport and settled down at our gate, talking about where all of my friends are going to college. I immediately started talking about my Y.O.U. friends whom my parents barely know or have no knowledge of at all. My friends from school are all staying near home, going to TCU, UTA, DBU, LCU or ACU, all of which are located in Texas, for those of you that don't know.

We boarded the plane. I read The Awakening by Kate Chopin, amazing book by the way, you should all read it, and then proceeded to fall asleep.

As we got closer to the airport, I could see the bright lights of New York City. They enthralled me. I have been to London; I have been to Rome; I have been to Paris; I have been to Madrid; there is no city in the world like New York.

We landed, got our rental car and proceeded to drive up to Bard. By this time, it was 11:00 p.m. and we were all exhausted. It was raining and dark, the highway unlighted. Our hotel, which we reached around 1:00 a.m., looked like something out of an old fifties movie.

However, it served its purpose- we all slept.


Friday

I awoke, showered and called K.C. while I waited for my parents to finish getting ready. We laughed and flirted and it was grand. She really is wonderful.

For breakfast, we drove to a little diner in the town of Red Hook. Have you ever seen pictures of diners that look like they are in a metallic trailer? YES. Thats exactly what it was.

Everyone was friendly, kind and generous. The food was great and by this time, I was bouncing up and down with excitement.

Fifteen minutes later, we arrived at Bard. The campus is beautiful. We signed into the Admissions office, went to the student center and bought t-shirts for everyone in my family and a big decal that says "BARD COLLEGE" for the back of my car.

Next was a tour, led by Diane, a varsity soccer player *teehee*. It looks like I'm going to be playing next year..................

Any way, the tour was fabulous, I learned an immense amount about the college. I am so excited to go. I met a couple really cool incoming students, who I still need to e-mail......

Bard is the college of my dreams!!! It is everything I could ever want. The students were even dressed like me! After the tour, we were all talking about our high schools, how we felt out of place. I had them all rolling with laughter about the fact that I have a shooting range less than two minutes from my house and that on that shooting range, the have painted Yosemite Sam saying something quite rude. That and talk of actual cowboys, button up shirts, tight pants, boots and all was quite unbelievable for them. Welcome to my reality lol.

After eating a quick lunch in their cafeteria, we jumped back in the car and drove to New York City. I got some really good pictures approaching the city by the way. I'll get those posted some how........

The driving in New York was crazy. After we got out of the tunnel under the Hudson, we were utterly lost for an hour or two. The directions were really shoddy and thus we ended up driving around the city for two more hours than we were supposed to.

Just so you know, 42nd Street is INSANE!!!!!!!!! Thats Times Square for those of you that don't know. Don't feel bad, I didn't know until Friday night.

Finally, we arrived at the hotel and my parents went to park the car. They got lost for another hour while I talked to K.C.. Once again, I throughly enjoyed talking to her and telling her about my newly found love for Bard and my truly deep love for her.

My parents got back, we ordered in pizza, slept.

Saturday


Sunday