525,600 minutes . . . how do you measure a year?

yesterday i went to new york city with my pal ann. it was a rockin' good time (ha! don't know if it was "rockin" . . . just felt like saying that word. but we did have a lot of fun!). manhattan is manhappenin'!! we went to advent lutheran church. the people there were very welcoming. the sermon was just okay. it was the second time in my life i took communion with wine. i wasn't going to take communion there but ann assured me i could. i still wasn't going to but then when the pastor said that the table was open to all, i thought it was okay. i mean, communion is one of my favorite things. even if i may not completely agree with a lutheran view of the elements, i felt i was welcome to share in the Lord's supper with fellow believers. also, cool thing = i saw a girl at the service that i went to high school with! how weird is that!! i mean, two salina south graduates go to the same lutheran church in new york city on the same sunday. i love when things like that happen. so, after church, ann and i made our way back to times square/the theatre district because we had tickets for rent and we needed to figure out where the theater was. (by the way, we totally figured out how to ride the subways! we win!) it just so happens that when we exited onto the street from the subway station the theater was directly across the street. sweet! so, we bought a hot dog from a vendor and walked to times square for a bit. then we went to rent. i LOVED it!!! ann did too. i'm really glad that we got tickets for it, even if it was a bit expensive. the singing was awesome. i had the 'seasons of love' song in my head for the rest of the day! after rent, we walked back to times square and then went to rockefeller center and st. patrick's cathedral. we actually went into the cathedral and they were having mass. i can't imagine worshipping regularly in a place that is a tourist attraction. there was actually a velvet rope! after that, we went on a quest to find food. while we were looking for a restaurant, we walked past bruce vilanch signing autographs outside a theater! true, most people don't know who he is but it was fun to see someone i recognized from hollywood squares. anway, we decided to eat at an italian restaurant. it was pretty fancy but it was good! i've never been to a place where they actually check your coat and lay the napkin on your lap. then, we walked the twenty blocks back to penn station. there were a heyya lot of people there and a mad rush to get on the new jersey train. it's all good, we made it back. we ran into katy at the dinky. coolness. all in all, it was a good day!

(p.s. i was going to post a pic but i can't find my camera cord. i think maybe i lent it to someone but i don't remember . . . if you have it, can you let me know! thanks!)