New York City

Here's the lowdown for my trip to NYC:

Woke up at 8:45am on Saturday morning so I could catch the 10am Chinatown bus (affectionately dubbed the SARS bus). Little did I know that there are two Chinatown bus companies (Travel Pack and FengWah) so Asphodel and I waited in the Travel Pack line while we were really FengWah. We narrowly caught the FengWah bus. @_@ Since I'd only slept about 4 hours the night previous (due to DDRing, midnight sushi, and drinking), I slept the entire way over. ^_^

We dropped our stuff off at a family friend of Asphodel's, and headed into the city to bum around. Being the manga nerds we were we headed immediately to the Book Off where we met Jojo, Alisa, and Mikhail. We headed off to Korean BBQ after hanging out for a bit, told some amusing stories, and then parted ways. Heads to all three of them, they're amazing people and I love them all. ^_^

Sunday Asphodel and I went to Dim Sum at Jing Fong in Chinatown where we were met by Yin, David, and Charm. We were going to go see Wicked but it was all sold out. Without a backup plan, we wandered around Times Square for the rest of the afternoon because we didn't know what we wanted to do. Charm and I spent a lot of time at the Toys R Us, which was awesome. I played a lot of Double Dash and we both sat around at raced each other at Where's Waldo. I think Charm did better than me, but we didn't keep track.

Then on Monday I went to the Chinese Consulate to grab my visa for my visit later this summer...and now I'm back home in Boston. ^_^ Didn't do much on my trip, but I still did have a lot of fun.

Love to everyone I met and everyone I wasn't able to meet. There was lots of fun and great stories to be had! I'll try to stay longer in NYC next time so I can hang with everybody there I know. :3