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The adventure began early this morning.   And after riding on various forms of mass transportation, we arrived in New York City --bus, light rail, airplane, bus and a bit of walking thrown in for health reasons -of course.  It's been a long day. Most of it was spent crammed together with over 150 total strangers in the back an aluminum tube otherwise known as a plane. Yes, we were in the back of the "main cabin" quite close to the toilets...too close to the toilets. Have you ever noticed that an entire plane load of people get the urge to use the facilities at the same time? This happened multiple times. I rubbed elbows with all of them several times during the flight.  Predictably everyone and their dog gets up to pee as soon as the seat belt sign is turned off.  However, this particular flight was full of folks with weak bladders. Using my personal seat space to squeeze by each other offered the opportunity to gaze at a number of  mid sections, rears, and thighs. It got so bad one man said to me that he didn't know if I preferred his front side or his back side. Yup.  I smiled what else could I do? Sigh. One lady mentioned that I should've booked my ticket earlier to get a better seat choice. Mind you I am sitting reading a book trying not to notice folks and she pipes up. Yup. Sigh again. And why is it that people line up for the rest room while the drink and food carts are still obstructing the aisle? The flight attendants can only move so fast so sit down already! I had a birds eye view of the luggage being unloaded. It's not for the squeemish. A bunch of us back in steerage were enjoying it as entertainment but I opened my big mouth and uttered...well looking at this makes me glad I put anything that may explode in plastic zip locks. Bad word choice. There was some laughter heard after I cast about trying to rephrase--you know shampoo conditioner. Hoo boy, anyway they know what I meant.

So today was a travel day and we are now tucked into our little hotel in Mid Town Manhattan. Tomorrow is Ellis Island, The Statue of Liberty, and our first Broadway experience.  The Big Fella has a good snore going and I am about to hit the springs as well.  Night night sleep tight don't let the bed bugs bite.