Our last big aventure into the city

Thursday August 21, 2008 was our last venture into the big bad city, and we conquered! Our plan was to hit up Strand's this awesome used bookstore down in Greenwich Village, which is very close to Union Square so getting was was a piece of cake! We are pros navigated down the 4-5-6 Subway line (which takes you to Union Square). This store was pretty cool, its the 18 miles of books, and you can buy books by the yard... Pretty cool, no. Do you want to look hip and pretentious? Then go to that store and tell them you wanna buy 1 yard of books and your interest include: music, photography, philosophy, post-modernism, and classic literature... POW you've got your pretentious collection of books for you perfect apt in New York. Hahaha, just kidding. But really this store is fantastic. There were so many books to look at the Blake starting texting me, "I'm lost, were are you?" cause I kept wandering about (and for those of you that know me, I like to wander).
Afterwards, when we had our matching Strand Bookstore messenger bags (yes, we are hip) we took the shuttle train over to Time Square, preparing ourselves to be overwhelmed. And YES, I finally got a "WOW" out of Blake (that is of course, a wow out of the bedroom, tehetehe) Time Square for those of you that haven't been there is quite intense... Image all the people at Disneyland on a very busy day in July, then add Las Vegas without the casino but all the bill boards, lights, and glitter. Then add Los Angeles with all its shops, glitz, and people trying to buy your soul for $5.50 a tour ride and you've got Time Square. We passed the ABC building, and MTV (oooh how exc...WHO CARES!) and rows and rows of shops, giant telepromters, television screens, ads galore, a tour bus on every corner... And tons, and tons of people! We walked around for roughly an hour in a half (in the meantime eating a slice of pizza and peeing in the Hard Rock cafe), then stopping for a Murphys Stout in this fancy little bar called Playwrights Tavern (and when we walked in the bar keep stated, "The restaurant is upstairs" to which I replied, "We want to drink BEER!" and I always get what I want. :) Okay, not really, but I like to try. Afterwards we quickly made our way back to Grand Central and off on the Metro-North back home. We bought some wine and ice cream for our last dinner together... The night was sad, but amazing at the same time. Our meal was excellent, we had wine first in the backyard rehashing the last two weeks, then making some promises to each other which will have to somehow last these next two years. Then dessert and bad TV for a little while, before collapsing into each other arms in violent sobs and tight embraces, and afterwards falling asleep in each others arms to emotional exhausted to move for a glass of water. The last day was approaching fast and we tried to prolong the sunrise, but alas we did not make it. Buster (the awesome dog that I am going to help take care of when Trish is away working or spending time with family) woke us up early morning because she had to pee. The day had begun.