I went to New York City this weekend.

We took the train from Connecticut for about an hour and a half to Grand Central station in Manhattan at around 10am.
I got to ride through and take a picture of Harlem. It’s pretty sketchy there.

We took a subway and went street level to check out the outside of the Empire State building and have a hotdog. They NY hotdogs I’ve always heard about where nothing special, just a steamed hotdog with normal bun and optional sweet mustard and onions. I was imagining some huge bbq’d thing with sauerkraut or something.

Then we went to Rockefeller Center (no tree, just a small rink). I imagined a much larger rink !We saw some cathedral and the trump tower. We walked up to the edge of Central Park and took a picture of some green, some trees and a horse.

We went to Chinatown and the Italian place and a lot of people tried to see us purses. It’s weird, they wont look at you when you walk by but they say under their breath “purses purses…”. We went to a Chinese place and I had some pork stuff on rice and Diana had foe in a bowl the size of a sink. For dessert we went to Italy area and had fancy desserts.

We got on the subway to the ferry to float last the statue of liberty. It was dark out so I just got a picture of blackness with snowflakes reflecting off the camera flash. I saw the barely lit up thing though.

We went and walked on the street-level (I forget where) to see the nightlife and all the lit up streets.

We left around 8pm for the train home before the big storm hit.

The drive home was horrible. In Connecticut there was so much blowing snow I couldn’t see the road. I saw about 20 people in the ditch and actually saw about 5 go off the road. After I left Connecticut it was pretty smooth sailing, the storm was pretty southern.

I got in on a great deal today.

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I have a good feeling I will never see my dog swim.

Anyone want to go to Whistler Blackcomb, BC

I don’t get these people that follow so closely to the back of a salt truck.

My dog is 60 lbs today.
She’s looking a bit chunky and she hasn’t even started the holiday festivities.

I couldn’t imagine getting a “double double” coffee at Tim Hortons. Usually I’ll put maaaaaybe one sugar in my coffee (usually large) and then it’s at a point where I can barely taste the sweetness – that’s when I do it myself. Whenever I go through the drive-thu and order a “single single” and have them do it, the thing’s so sweet it makes me want to toss it out the window.

I don’t know how they measure their sugar, do they just have one of those glass tabletop jars and just dump it until they decide to stop or do they pour over a tablespoon and stir?

Some people get a medium “double double”. That’s a large percentage of milk and sugar if you ask me – it must be almost white and as sweet as Kool-aid. I know someone who gets a large “triple triple”. Why bother with coffee in that case? Just get a chocolate bar and a can of Coke for breakfast and suck it up through a straw (stuck down through the tab turned around backwards of course).

I miss living in Nova Scotia.

Abby seems to want to kill stuffed things in the morning between 7am and noon.We have her baby gated off in the kitchen but her stuffed toys and beds get ripped to pieces.

Here’s todays damage: Bed #2 dead. You can click the picture to see it larger.

I go to McDonald’s today and I noticed that the deal of the day order is all screwed up. Instead of getting a Big Xtra on Monday they’re giving away a double cheeseburger.

The guy tells me it’s the double cheeseburger with lettuce and tomato. I take it to my table and find out it’s not the same double cheeseburger they used to give out. This didn’t have mustard, ketchup, or pickle – it had that mayo junk instead. It was basically a big mac without that center bun piece and no pickle or Mac sauce. Why’d they change the ketchup? It’s not even a burger anymore, it’s a double cheese sandwich.

It was a sad say when a lot of fast food burger places made the transition from selling burgers to sandwiches. I thought ‘Oh-oh, this isn’t going to be good for anybody.’

They don’t even give you ketchup packages when you get take out there anymore – you have to ask for it. What are you supposed to eat with your fries, plain with salt topping?

Dairy Queen’s the best burger place around.