New York Minute

Make that 2,880 minutes aka 2 days.

Friday: T and I left around 9am for NYC expecting it to take about 5 hours, but thanks to beach traffic and weekend traffic it took SEVEN hours. We had less time to bee-bop about so instead after spending like 30 minutes with my sister and getting the dog situated at her place in Queens we headed into Manhattan. We grabbed a quick bite at Empanda Mama’s – a favorite, but the food was not as good as usual. Then we headed to see The Play That Goes Wrong on Broadway. It was my second non-musical show to see on Broadway and I gotta say I was impressed with the actors. This show is a comedy and it has a lot of physical comedy – we both enjoyed. It’s playing through January and also going on tour. We pretty much crashed for the night once we got back to my sister’s place.

Saturday: We dropped T off at the Intrepid to wander around for a few hours while my sister and I headed to a NYSC to do the new releases of Body Combat and Body Pump. My sister is an instructor and I want to get certified so she thought instead of us going to a class together, this would be more useful. Those instructor videos are NOT instructor friendly, it’s just like watching a work out video and memorizing it and figuring out cues on your own. All the more reason to stick with getting certified for Pump first, Combat moves too damn fast! We met back up with T grabbed deli sandwiches and got ready to head to Citi Field for the Mets vs. Nats game. I grew up going to see the Mets play at their old stadium (RIP Shea), but had not made it to Citi Field in the 9?! years it’s been open.I really wanted to go because my Dad’s cousins got him a memorial brick in the “Fan Walk” infront of the entrance to the park. Thank goodness their website had a Brick Locator page, because I knew where it was and it still took 3 of us like 10 minutes to find. The game was good, the Mets won and they had a Home Run so the big apple pops us from the outfield (I loved that as a kid). We grabbed dinner in Queens and called it an early night.

Sunday: I grabbed coffee and bagels for everyone before heading to the Long Island City waterfront (which they juuuust extended and it’s amazing) to get on my group call with my life coach for 2 hours. I loved having my headset in and getting to look at the NYC skyline – she’s my favorite. We were supposed to see my mom and head to Long Island, but with less than 24 hours notice she told us not to come, she wasn’t up for visitors essentially. I was livid, this is not the first time that I’ve been in NY and had plans to see her and she’s bailed. In short, my mom has a lot of issues and I need to stop hurting myself by trying to fix this toxic relationship. We ended up just bopping around the High Line and Greenwich village per T’s request before heading home. Thankfully it was only a 5-hour drive home