Concrete Jungle Part 2

By our third full day in the city our feet were spent. In a mere 72 hours we had seen it all. Cels browsed the shops on Fifth Avenue and dreamed as we perused through the likes of Tiffany’s, Sax, and quote “the worlds greatest Anthropology”. We had walked from Times Square to ground zero, across the Brooklyn bridge back to the Empire State building, Rockafeller Center, to the Apple store and Trump Tower. We had waited in line for New Yorks best pizza and eaten lamb over rice from street venders. I ogled the buildings and the pace of the financial district as we walked down Wall Street. So the prospect of walking the city for a fourth straight day was a tough pill to swallow. Enter biking on the streets of NYC, A completely unique biking experience full of danger adrenaline and exercise. It was a lot like playing frogger, but with our own lifes as we dodged in and out of cabs and pedestrians! Now I have to take a moment here to gloat about my wife. When we got married she didn’t even own a bike. Fast forward 2 years and she is nearly a bonafide expert. I was so proud as we biked all the way from lower Manhattan, through SoHo, Little Italy, China Town, through Greenwhich Village and finally all through the park. She really grew in her confidence, at one point she even kicked a cab on the hood as it tried to run her down!!! It was a super proud moment. On a whim and a prayer (while I was bored walking through one of a thousand shops) I entered online for Letterman tickets. The next day I got a call saying I had been chosen, answered a trivia question right, and we were on the fast track to seeing Dave LIVE! It was a trip! We filmed that nights show from 4:30-5:30, which meant we had to be in line for check-in at 2:30. It was a once in a lifetime experience, legitimately live TV. We closed out our time in NYC with Celseys first ever live Broadway. It was an extravagant show about some drag queens and we laughed until we couldn’t breathe. The city was a fun experiment, but a short lived one for us. It left us with the feeling that we aren’t quite programmed for city life. To visit is an experience that words cant describe, and hopefully we will be back again, but always as visitors, never as dwellers.

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