♫ "New York, New York!" ♫ Part 3 - The Adventure - Friday

For part 3, this is where the real fun and adventure starts!

Once we met @zeewriter at Penn Station (the NY side) we check in with the lady that @BeCullen and I are renting the apt. we are staying at so that we can shedule a time to get the keys - anytime was fine so Zee gave us a choice of either going to the apt. to drop our bags off and come back into the city or just stay in the city, go eat, meet with some other twitter friends and then drop our luggage.
People, when you are given this option in NYC and you have a 50lb. bag of luggage - take option A! LOL Never in my life have I ever walked so much or went up and down so many stairs in the span of roughly 3 hours. LOL It got to the point where Zee was yelling out to us "Stairs" anytime a set of them came up, so we would be fairly warned. LOL
Obviously, we chose option B to make it "easier" on everyone and as not to go back and forth in and out of town. So, after walking a bit, getting on the subway a few times, and climbing about 10 sets of stairs we get to a place to eat lunch called The Republic. While there we got a chance to meet @Greenabsinthia, @scribeninja and also @Vio_laine. Vio was a little later getting there, so Green ordered for her. The minute Vio walked in and we got to talking, I immediately fell in love with her. She is a very powerful, full of life woman and commands her presence. In a word, she is awesome.
The place had a really nice atmosphere and the food was delicious!
I had some sort of chicken soup with a side salad thing and beef kabobs. Yum! And I also ordered a Stella Artois.

Like I said - delicious! :)
Unfortunately, after lunch was over Scribeninja had to head to the airport so Zee, Be and I told them all goodbye and made plans with Vio and Green to meet at Highline Park later that night.
In the meantime it's going on 2:30pm, and we are headed to the apt. to get the keys and take a little nap since at this point I have been awake for roughly 33 hours or more.
Once we get settled, get our nap taken, which was approximately 2 hours, Zee was back to take us back out to meet with the girls.
Before meeting with Green and Vio, we met @tydestra who was very interesting and was on top of the world because she was getting married in about 2 weeks from then.
We walked around Highline Park for a little while just to enjoy the evening. It was a beautiful night, but after about an hour or so we were getting pretty hungry, so the 4 of us decided to go to The NY Burger Co.
Best burgers ever! They were so good. I had the Brooklyn Burger with bacon and cheese, and a Brooklyn Lager. With so little sleep in the last 40+ hours I was feeling a little punch drunk and was having the time of my life.
I think the other girls were too! No matter what the subject was at this point we were all a feeling like a bunch of giggly teenage girls. :) Fun stuff...

I love how as we were waiting for our food, we all get on our phones to tweet and text (and take this picture!) :)

After getting our food and talking some more Vio and Green came and ate with us. After we were done, the 6 of us went back to Highline to walk around some more. The view was amazing and I got a great shot of the Empire State Building.

As we are walking we come up to some bleacher type benches to sit and relax and decide we want our picture taken as a group, so the trick is going to be trying to find someone willing to take pictures with 6 cameras/phones. Well, as luck would have it we chance upon a gaggle of teen girls. I told Zee, ask them, teen girls LOVE taking pictures. Sure enough, we ask if one of them would want to take our picture. All of them pipe up at the same time - ME ME ME I'll do it! Zee was like, yep, you called it. LOL

So we got a pretty nice picture of the 6 of us.

After a little more walking Be and I decide we are exhausted. 44 hours awake with a 2 hour nap in between will do that to a person.

We get to the apt. and get some sleep for the adventures to come the next day.

Next up - Part 4 - The Adventure - Saturday