NYC

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Me and Kelsey at the Last Tree Standing
at the Twin Towers Memorial

Okay, I'm a little annoyed with my boring blog. I'm working on figuring out how to personalize it and not use a pre-made setup. Ya know? And I also want to have meaningful posts. Something to write about before I start writing. Luckily, I went to New York this past weekend and finally have something worthwhile to type.

I went to NYC to visit one of my besties Kelsey. Kelsey is a firery red-head and I am always a little nervous what we're gonna get ourselves into whenever I see her.  She's the type of girl who could kick your ace and then will pray for forgiveness from Jesus. In high school she banged my head repeatedly into my locker. I don't remember what for, but it showed everyone that you don't mess with Kelsey Moore, not even if you're her "friend". :)  At least she's an honest friend, I mean hey, if she's willing to bang her own friends' head into a locker, she's probably got your back in any situation. She is my hired bouncer for the wedding. Glad that's covered.

WTC Memorial

I flew to NY Friday morning. G dropped me off and I rushed through security, because there was no way I was missing this get out of MN flight. I switched planes in Chicago and I sat in a 3 seater row. It was like this -

 

Window - Weirdo - Open Seat - Me - Aisle.

 

 Okay, the weirdo was a strange dude. Probably 40 years old and didn't say one word. Fine. I don't like talking to new people anyway. But the weird thing was, he caught me looking out the window and then quickly slammed it shut. Ummm.. okay, fine. I won't look out "his" window. It get's weirder.. he peeks out the window, looks back over at me to see if I'm trying to see out it, and then shuts it quick again! How bizarre! He does this probably 5 times. I'm convinced he's nuts. I realllllllly wanted to look out the window and see Manhattan from the sky. This guy was not digging it. 

Pedicures in China Town

It was sprinkling rain the whole time I was in NYC. Which didn't totally blow because we spent much needed time getting pedicures and our makeup done and eating.  We went to a couple clubs at night but honestly, everyone was too old to be there, and a little creepy. I felt very small and white and scared. I was glad to have Kelsey with me.  So we went back to her place and were not tired enough to go to sleep, that's when we decided it was a good idea to get my belly button pierced. YOLO right?





So I went to the tattoo shop and a girl with some nice skull tattoos shoved a needle through my gut. Yowch! I've had quite a few piercings before, but holy moly this one took the cake. I think I was just so not nervous that no endorphins rushed to my poor belly to take care of the pain. I was turning gray and about to pass out when a little midget came and gave me some water. (When I saw the midget I really thought I had lost it.) Kelsey confirmed it was a real midget and I hadn't lost all thought.

The next day I went to church with Kelsey with my fresh belly ring.  Her church is the exact opposite of my Missouri Synod church. Such an experience! Held in a theatre, with a live band, and a black preacher. It was incredibly entertaining. You get so caught up in the moment there it's pretty cool. I'm glad she has found some peeps her age that love God and get together and pretty much have a party for Jesus every week. Awesome.



We rushed out of "church" to catch my flight. Kelsey dropped me off at the airport. Not 5 minutes later I had to call her back to get me because my flight was leaving from New Jersey. F! We made it to New Jersey in like 4 hours (which is supposed to be a 45min drive). I don't know what part of NJ we ended up in, but blatantly, it was a shit hole. Just disgusting. Garbage everywhere. Places that don't take credit cards (white girl problems) and not very friendly people. Really made me want to get back to MN A.S.A.P


When I finally got to MN my boo picked me up in my car. He had vacuumed and washed my car to the 9's. What a honey! He took me home and he had cleaned the apartment as well. Such a good G. When he asked me what I got him in NYC, I reminded him that he once told me that next time I want to get him a gift, to get something for myself instead, so I showed him my belly button ring and he couldn't be happier. Lol