We started the day with a baby dragon (ie lizard) in the house! I chased him/her around for over an hour before I caught him/her and left him/her safely out the door.
You have to be very careful in how you catch them because they will drop their tail and I didn't want him/her to waste the only defense he/she has on me.
In case you don't know, they will detach their tail and it will wiggle and jump around, drawing attention to it so whatever is trying to catch the poor little things will go after the tail while they slip away.
They can grow their tail back but it takes a long, long time. They don't have any defense in the mean time.
Busy day today. I will tell you that I am typing this without using my glasses because I have a NEW flat panel monitor! I've wanted one for the longest time and since I had the money left over from the trip, I thought, why not get one? There were plenty of sales for them.
It's a Xerox 17" but it seems a lot bigger. I made sure I got one with the black frame which adds to the illusion.
It seems much better/clearer for my eyes. As I said, I am typing this without using my reading glasses. Yay!
I also got a charcoal grill which I will assemble tomorrow morning. We're going to have dirty potatoes (right down in the charcoal), corn on the cob and a nice thick sirloin steak. I also bought a bag of marshmallows. Gotta have marshmallows to toast over the coals.
To continue my NYC story. Spent the day on Monday getting my bearings. I have to admit that I was a bit overwhelmed by all the people, traffic, buildings, etc. I did walk down to Macys and bought some jewelry for Mom and myself as a remembrance of the trip.
I guess being from Florida and being near the Mouse, I’m just not into “I love NY” mugs or little Empire State Building statues or such. Dust collectors are what I call them. I like a rock and something for my jewelry box.
I should explain about the rock. For years when anyone else would go on vacation, people would say, bring me this or bring me that. I always asked for a rock from where ever they went. I figured it didn’t cost anything and would mean as much to me as anything (mug, t-shirt, etc) would. I have rocks from all over the world. Now it was my turn to add to the collection.
I remembered to get a rock in SLC city but NYC proved to be a bit of a challenge. But that’s another story.
You know that I had dinner that night with Elmore. Got to see the table that Bruce always sits at. We couldn’t sit there because someone already had it. I could kick myself because I had taken my digital camera with us to the restaurant but we were having such a nice chat I forgot all about it! Sigh, such is life.
One thing to add, Elmore said something that was repeated to me (or a variant there of) many times by other people . He said he thought I was brave to come to the city all by myself.
That very night after we had parted company and I went to the Toys R Us store to ride the Ferris wheel, when I gave the guy my ticket to get on the ride said, “Only one? Your by yourself?” I said, “Yes.”
He was very nice and waved to me every time I passed by him. When the ride was over he asked if I had enjoyed it and I told him I had.
Tuesday I took the downtown tour bus and saw a good deal of the city. I got off at the Empire State Building and spent what seemed like forever waiting in line to get in the building, then forever getting the ticket, then forever going thru security, forever for the sky ride (fun but I hadn’t had my meds yet nor had I eaten anything so it made me a little sick), forever waiting for the elevator to go up, (have you gotten the picture by now? Humm?). Anyway, I finely made up to the observation deck where I had the brilliant idea that I would call home and ask if Mom knew where I was calling from. I pulled the cell phone out but couldn’t get a signal! Now you would think that there on the top of one the highest buildings in NYC there would be good reception, wouldn’t you? Then I noticed that others were having the same idea/problem. No one could get a signal!
So much for my bright idea of calling home.
When I got back down from the clouds, I found I had missed a call on my new phone. Now with the new phone, I do have voice mail but I had no idea as to how to use it! I was afraid it was my Mother calling with a problem. I had to get back on the tour bus and wait until I could find a nice quiet place to get off.
I found a nice quiet little park in the Village and was able to access the voice mail. It was from a lady named Stephanie who I had made plans to see “Boy From Oz” with on Thursday. She was just checking in with me which was fine with me.
I got back on the bus and went to Battery Park. Walked around a little and got back on another bus to take me back up town. I wanted to go see a play that night and needed to make it back in time to go to the Ticket Booth in Times Square. I could have gotten off a couple of other places or gone over to see the Statue of Liberty but opted not to since they said you couldn’t go into the Statue. I’ve seen to many pictures of the outside to worry about going just to look up at it.
I made it back in time to get my ticket for “Wonderful Town”. I chose that play because I sorta kinda “know” Raymond Mcleod. Not really but in passing. I posted on his board a few times.
I’ll stop now and pick this up later.
