Its been several days since I last posted, and I really need to get caught up on the happenings.  On the 4th Elizabeth and I went out to New Jersey with her cousins for a BBQ.  It was really nice to get out of the city and be around her family.  We came back into the city to watch the fireworks show from her cousins apartment building rooftop.   That was pretty amazing to be in lower Manhattan, on a rooftop with a view of the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building in the background, surreal.  What was really crazy was our subway ride back.  There were so many people packing into the cars that after a few stops there was no more room, so I thought.  People began reaching into the subway cars, grabbing the hand bars and literally just pulling themselves into the car, packing it tighter.  We truly were just cattle on a train, disgusting.  On Thursday we went to pick up an air conditioner so we could finally stay at our new apartment.  Since the air conditioner is such a cumbersome item we decided to get a gypsy cab to hall us and it home.  A gypsy cab is essentially just hiring some guy off the street to drive you, meaning they are not legal taxi drivers.  This also means the fare is not standerdized and is up for negotiation.  The new place is pretty comfortable and we have enjoyed it thus far.  We did have to spend some time scrubbing the place down, evidently $1600 a month doesn't get  you a clean apartment to move into.  On Saturday we took a train up to Bridgeport, Connecticut to try to escape the city and find a beach to lay on.  We did find a pretty decent beach to lay on, but it was not quiet, as we had hoped.  There were ice cream vendors pushing carts up and down the beach, all the time honking a little horn that you might find on a kids bicyle.  Needless to say it was annoying.  To tell you a little more about Bridgeport, it is the birthplace of Subway Restaurants, the frisbee, PT Barnum lived there, and its the largest city in Connecticut.  Don't bother visiting.  Tomorrow I head home for a month or so, I am not looking forward to leaving Elizabeth, but I really look forward to some peace and quiet that this city does not seem to offer.



Quotes of the Week:


Person #1:  "Don't you have like 10 babies mamas?"
Person #2:  "I only have 2"



and another dialogue........


Different Person #1:  "My blood is pure" "I aint never had no STD"  "I don't play that"

                                               'look to the cookie Elaine, look to the cookie'

                                    Empire State Builing lit in red, white and blue on the 4th

                                                                         Elizabeth!

                                            Just a couple of New Yorkers, in Times Square

Took the weekend off from writing.  We went downtown Saturday afternoon to do the tourist thing.  Walked around the financial district and saw Wall Street, Trinity Church, and St. Paul's Chapel.  Mostly it was a tour to the epicenter of this country's wealth, greed, corruption, and reason for the current economy.  Best part was a realatively quite Irish pub with pretty good food (bacon cheeseburger mac n cheese) and affordable beers. We will be going back there.  Sunday we looked for more household goods, and explored the park a little more.  Elizabeth started orientation this moring, and has her first ER shift tomorrow night.  She says its should be pretty crazy.  Our bed is getting delivered tomorrow, and we are getting internet hooked up.  Its just a different place, wow!