My weekend in NYC

This weekend me and my BF decided we needed a little vacation (we had been fighting almost every day for 2 and a half weeks). We took septa and nj transit to NYC and stayed over night. It was a blast! We stayed at this place called West Side Inn (www.westsideinn.com) which looks too good to be tru cus it is! You are paying less than $80 (if you book online) to stay at this place that looks like a real hotel. If you havent been to NYC before, the hotels there are way overpriced. Overnight at anywhere else was running $160+. So we get off the train and take teh subway up to the upper west side to stay in our cozy little hotel which turns out to be a regular hostel. There are 3 bathrooms on a floor and the room is barely big enough to fit the double bed in. There is a TV and a fan in the window and thats it. I didnt even bring a bath towel because they advertise it as a real hotel. So after the initial dissappointment we decide to head out and find ourselves a late lunch.

I had found this website that listed places to eat in the city that sold good food for cheap. It was a top 100 list. On the train i picked the addresses of the places i thought would be cool to go to. We decided to check one of them out for lunch because it was close to the hotel. All we had to do was cut across central park. Sounds easy enough. So we head into the park in the sweltering heat and start off on the twisting trails and roads using instinct as our guide. Bad idea. We ended up walking twelve blocks downtown instead of straight across. So we hop a cab and he takes us to where the resturant is supposed to be and its an apartment building. so

We decide to take teh subway to litle italy which is right next ti chinatown and find something there. We ate at a place on the pedestrian mall in little italy and it was great. Then we walked through a little bit of chinatown and i bought a towel and some candy.

Back to the hotel for a nap and some TV. then a shower. The shower was set up wierd. it was in a tub but it had a glass sliding door and the top track of the sliding door was feet below the ceiling. I am describing it badly, bu the top of ths hower doors was just above eye level for me. There was a space about 3.5 feet tall and 2.5 feet wide that you had to step into to get into the shower. So i didnt have a big prblem but my BF could barely fit. He said it was the worst shower he ever took.

We decided to eat in the vilage. So we took the subway out there to the East Village and walked around for a while checkin out resturants and seeing the sights. The liquor stores in NYC are not state run like here so we saw one that was open and went in to check out the difference. The selection of wines was so much more extensive and they had a lot more of the higher priced ones. I am a big fan of Asti. I like Asti Spumante and Moscato d'Asti and i have no idea what the difference is so dont ask me. But they had a brand i had never tried so i bought a bottle of that. Then we ate at a sub-par pseudo italian joint and tried to head back to the hotel. but

The subway we thought we were gonna take was not running late at night. The subway we were supposed to take came and went while we were figuring this out. It was about 90 degrees in this subway station, we had been walking all day in the heat and it was late. after midnight! It took absolutely FOREVER for the train to com. I didnt time it because i was too irritated, but we left the resturant after midnight and we got in the hotel after 2. At this point i was thoroughly miserable.

The next morning we overslept a little bit got up, skipped the crappy shower, and checked out. We took the subway down to times square and looked for a breakfast joint. We saw the sights, bought some souveniers and ended up eating at HoJos. The whole time my shoulder is killing me because i am carrying my bags (to keep from making a trip back to the hotel). We hopped a cab to penn station and had a 20 minute wiat for the next train so we walked the three blocks to the empire state building just to get a view of it. We stopped in a couple stores on teh way back and ended up missing that train but were right on time for the next one. I slept most of the train ride back until some really rude young men with a little talent got on the train and began to make up and sing some pretty foul songs about their ex-girlfriends. The one guy had an OK voice and the other was beat boxing for a while and it would have been almost ok if the songs werent so foul.

All in all a nice little trip. My shoulder still hurts but i needed to get outta philly for a while. I saw a nice little shoe store that i really wanted to spend more time in but i am supposed to go to see a movie in NYC this weekend with my friends so i will check that out then!