oh boy . . .

why do i always wait so long to post when i have a million cool things to talk about.

first, my friend nicole and i made it back from kansas in good form. we arrived at five a.m. on the third. we stopped in kentucky to see our good friend andrew. we spent a long time in virginia because of an accident on the highway. i'm glad that i don't have any more days of driving twelve to fifteen hours in my near future.

first day nicole was here we spent our time cleaning my room. doesn't that sound like i'm an entertaining hostess?! i did take her on a driving tour of princeton. and, we got dinner at hoagie haven with larissa and nicole h. we had a grand ol' time eating dinner in the oratory (lots of christmas cookies and quite an interesting book you should ask larissa about!).

yesterday, we went to new york city. that was a great time!! first thing we did when we got there was walk from penn station to times square. we stopped in at the hershey's store and then made our way to central park. (we walked thirty blocks in our first hour there . . . awesome, huh?!) we took a carriage ride through central park and then we went to the zoo. we made a stop in the plaza hotel so i could see the luxury that kevin had in home alone 2. then we went to a restaurant off of fifth street called mcann's. i was a high maintenance diner during that lunch. next we made our way to rockefeller center, after stopping in at louis vuitton and tiffany's. we went ice skating in rockefeller center . . . one more thing off my list! it was my first time ice skating and it is hard but i did get better during our hour and half. my first reaction when i step onto the ice = "it's slippery!". i'm a genius. then, we met up with our friends mark, shan, and segar. (mark's dad works in new york so he was visiting and then shan and segar were visiting mark on one of their millions of trips!) funny thing, we're in new york city and we can't figure out what to do! we walked to time square to the tkts booth to see if there were any shows we wanted to see but none really caught our eye. oh, before that we were accosted by a guy selling tickets to an improv show. he told some questionable jokes. well, we decided to make our way to greenwich village. we went to union square and shopped and ate. love that there was an eating establishment that served pizza/italian and chinese food all in the same place. then we walked to greenwich village where most everything was closed. it surprises me how early things close in the city that never sleeps. jenny called me while i was in greenwich village and we had a coast to coast conversation. after that, we were all tired and we made our ways to our respective homes. it was good to see my friends from sc!

now, i have to go to a study session for ot. (this is me being an entertaining hostess again!) then, we're going to eat at the annex and go to philadelphia to pick up jenny and joanne.

have a lovely day!