next in NYC, cont.

at first, we were only going to walk as far as 'the first picture of me with the bridge', but then we figured, "we're here, we might as well keep going..." i wanted to be able to say that i had gone over the water on the thing! but GOSH, it was so, so COLD!! ...still, what a thrill; we were having a BLAST!!!!


i had to leave my 'body-print'... :) oh, i have to say that i thought a LOT about the movie Kate & Leopold while making our way to this part of the bridge. wished i could've been Meg Ryan (for more than one reason) for a moment or three...

yes, i altered the lighting on this photo. i was practically a shadow in the original, and when i got to messin' with it, i liked how unique it turned out. notice the helicopter over my head; they're everywhere in the sky over the city.

both of us had to pee so bad (we hadn't gone since just before leaving Andy's office about 4 hours earlier, and we'd been drinking--um, no; not THAT kind... :) plus, when it's cold, it seems to doubly or triple-ly accentuate the fact that my bladder is full!), and though i was tolerating the discomfort sorta-OK, Karyn declared that she couldn't take it any longer. we didn't think NYC was the sort of place to have public restrooms dotting its expanse (and certainly not ones that would be usable), and we didn't think NYC was the sort of place that happily welcomed 'just here to go pee-ers' in their places of business...SOOO, we made our way back to Andy's office. and we only got KINDA turned around. (K thought we should go that way, and i was pretty certain we needed to go this way. turns out we were both confused! but, i just have to say i was a bit more right than K...hee.) only had to call Andy once. :) (she'd written down before she left us what we needed to do, but not every single, little detail...) side-note: we had decided Karyn would be in charge of the subway system, since she'd ridden on the lightrails in Europe. besides, i wasn't catching on to the whole concept at first--my brain doesn't easily work that way, i guess. i was in charge of the map, since i'd been spending more time familiarizing myself with it. by the time we left, i (kinda) understood (some of) the basics of riding the subway and i was (fairly) savvy with the map...chuckle, if you must; i was pretty proud of myself. :)

had to get a pic of the subway; we spent a good deal of time waiting and/or riding while in NYC. thought it to be SUCH a cultural experience!!

another small taste of Christmas in the City