Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Adventures in Boo-Land (Illustrated)

Yay sunny weather! Finally.

A couple of weeks ago, Boo, Squiggly, and I headed down to the Big Apple to visit Boobin, and to drop Boo off for her summer of work. Though it was also cloudy for most of the days we were there, it sure didn't rain on our good time. The adventures started out on a Tuesday evening when Squig and I headed out to Sauga to fetch Boo and make our way to the border. Nearing Niagara Falls, Squiggly got all nostalgic about his first roulette gambling stint a fortnight prior in the Dominican Republic--a stint out of which he emerged successfully, earning himself some fair coin. At the last second before turning into the border crossing, he decided to gun it on ahead to the new Fallsview Casino entrance. Despite Boo's protests (and there were many), Squiggly remained intent on his urge to put down twenty on black and from his captain's seat in the Vibe, he told her:

    "We're going to the casino and gambling...bitch."

Wooed by his resolve rather than offended by his retardedness, Boo consented in awe.

We managed to last a whole twenty minutes in the casino on our pre-decided gambling amounts before we left again and crossed through customs, activating Boo's work permit on the way...

Boo: "I feel so welcomed by the [USA] this time!"

...and not a kilometre across the border Squig managed to run a red because he didn't believe I knew how to navigate on-the-fly.

Me: "Eyes on the road! Where's the trust?!"

Without much more ado, Squiggly and I drove through the night and managed to get to our first destination ahead of time so we tried to look for a place to get some breakfast. We drove around the little village we were in without much luck before we decided to pullover and ask for some advice. We spotted a girl walking her dog up ahead and while Squig drove up, I rolled down the window.

    "Excuse me, but do you know where there's a place around here we could get some breakfast?"

And the young woman turned around and smiling, told us where the local diner was. Unfortunately, none of us in the car heard her the first time around because all three of us were too captivated by her nipples. Well endowed, bra-less, and wearing the thinnest shirt she owned, Nipples obviously hadn't been counting on having to give directions at that early hour of the morning while walking her dog; that or she just knew what she had and how to work it at all hours of the day. Thankfully, she was nice enough to repeat the directions when I asked her to her face the second time.

Breakfast was good; coffee was delectable.

After breakfast, we freshened up...

...and proceeded to spend whatever money we had shopping at the Woodbury Outlet Mall. The best part about shopping though, was the other customers we got to shop amongst.

"I would KILL (myself) for (having) hair like that!"
(No, I'm not talking about Boo...look closer...)



Anyway, we finally arrived in NYC, penniless and hotel-less to boot. Disoriented, we stood on the corner of 42nd and 9th trying to figure out where to meet Boobin when Squiggly let out a yelp:

    "I'm being mugged!"

Of course no passers-by so much as glanced over (we WERE now in New York) but it's better that they didn't, because it was just Boobin jumping Squiggly out of joy. From there, much of the rest of our time spent in NYC was just one big blur.

We found a hotel to stay and cause a ruckus in...


...we did tourist-y things via subway...




...and we ate a lot of food.




Veselka for dinner, and Serendipity 3 for lunch and dessert.

Spanish, Mexican, Chinese, street shops, Ukrainian, and swEEEEt soul food rounded out our meal plan. By the time we were ready to leave, we were stuffed full of food and love. Though our stay was lackadaisical, our exit from the city of bright lights didn't leave us longing for anything.

Good surroundings, good food, and good company were exactly we were looking for, and in amongst each other there in New York, that's exactly what we found.

iluhyooguys

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I knew it! I love reading about us! I am so vain. Yeah? So? I also have an entourage and get drunk at all hours of the day apparently.

Anonymous said...

Okay, I see.

It was hyperbole and a mother's active imagination - or may just me remembering the dozen or so trips I took to New York - although really it's such an interesting city, it is rarely about boozing. It's more about having that ONE $25 drink in that historical hotel lobby.

Get well soon!
:DD