Saturday, May 08, 2010

NYC: Our First Day in the Big Apple



We are experienced travelers. Within just minutes of landing in LaGuardia Airport we had 2 week transit passes and were busin’ it to the subway line. The bus traveled down streets lined with identical conjoined brick houses with every second house or so adorning the stars and stripes mounted above the front door. We jumped off the bus and on the E line to Rick & Barbs pad at Chelsea.


The family toured us around on ‘Rick’s Rapid tour of Greenwich Village’- a brisk walking of the hood. It was exciting but not nearly as exciting as the paparazzi scrum, the Times Square bomb attempt, Broadway musicals, live jazz shows, a robbery at knife point, and theft of high end goods that we would soon experience in NYC!

2 comments:

Jolene - EverydayFoodie said...

What!!!!!?? Robbery at knife point, and theft of high end goods!!!?? Did this happen to you? Oh my.

Matt said...

Jo,

It turns out that our trip to New York was a lot more dangerous than some of the more typically sketchy places that we've visited before.

Don't worry the robbery and hold up, it didn't happen to us but both occurred within arms reach distance from us...

the temptation to intervene was overwhelming.

Good thing New York has SpiderMan :)

Matt & Alissa