Today is my last day of spring break! Dern!! I had such a great spring break, but ufortuneately I have school again on Monday. I still have a bunch of homework to do that I should have done the last two days I had off, but I procrastinated and I got a cold from traveling. Recycled air in airplanes............yuck.

Spring break recap: E and I flew out Saturday March 20th at 7:30am (Argh) and arrived in Hartford, CT where P. M. met us at about noon. We then went and assembled the party crew, including K. T. who flew in the night before, and prepared for a night of partying. It was blast. It was so great seeing P. M., S. O., and K. T. again. It was especially great meeting P.M.'s friends who were a lot fun! After getting very little sleep we returned to P.M.'s house on Sunday and spent the day chilling out. Monday we took a train to NYC where we stayed for two days. We started out at Grand Central Station where we arrived and then went and checked into our hotel across the street. We first hit the Chrysler building which was cool to look at, but then we moved on. We then visited the U.N. building. After that we circled out way to the Empire State building where we waited in line for almost 2 hours to go to the very top and look out over the city. It was quite cool and a little sad to see the hole where the twin towers once stood. It is hard to believe that they were standing tall just 2 years ago. We then ventured to Times Square. We walked around past TRL and went into the biggest Toys' R us ever! It had its own ferris wheel inside. We then walked down Broadway and found ourselves at Rockefellar Center. We watched some people ice skate and looked at the NBC studio. Then we walked along the fancy-smancy stores, inculding Tiffany's. There were no price tags on the jewels and so we knew it was out of our price range. It did house the second biggest diamond in the US (Sue must have........). We tried to go to FAO Schwartz but were sad to see that they were closed for renovation. We saw part of Central Park but we had to run back to the hotel to get our Broadway show tix. We ran and grapped some dinner at a place called Giggles Bar and Grill and went to see Rent! What a great musical and seeing it on broadway is even better! If you haven't seen it, see it! It is not like the classic, musicals that you probably have seen like Les Mis and Phantom, so keep that in mind. It is modern, but very lively and fun to watch. Finally we got back to the hotel at midnight and rested since our feet were very angry with all the walking we did. We walked about 3 miles or more!!

The next morning we got up bright and early and went over to Rockefellar Center to catch the Today show! We saw Matt Lauder and Katie Couric! What fun. We took a bunch of pictures but they did not walk to where we were standing so we did not get to talk with them and Al was in California! Dern it! We glimpsed Tom Hanks as he left the studio behind us! We then had to get warm since it was so freakin cold so we stepped into the NBC store to thaw out. Then we decided to walk through Central Park to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What a long walk that was, but the park is very beautiful. It is so cool that there is this peaceful park in the middle of such a huge city! The giant buildings surrounding it are cool to see in the background. There is another regulation size ice rink in the middle and we watched some professional skaters skate for a bit. This is also where everyone in Manhattan takes their dogs so we saw a lot of those in the park. Finally we made to upper Manhattan and to the museum. The museum was cool. We only saw part of it because it is so huge and we had to catch a train back to S.O. that day. So we grabbed a cab and had it drive us to the hotel ( what a great idea!). The cabs in NYC are not as crazy as those in Rome though! We caught a train back and hung out with P.M. and S.O. and then Wed. we caught our flight back to AL where we slept for a long time the next two days. We were glad to be back with the dogs, but I miss P.M. and S.O. already! We love y'all! It was also so good to be in a liberal state with normal northern people again! Freedom for a few days!!!! Later. S.W.