Finding the groove

Christmas time in the city,
boy is this town a buzz.

Christmas tree shops at every corner,
Lights decorating east side neighborhoods,
the big tree lighting Rockefeller plaza.
I make my pilgrimage to all the sights this Friday,
as I told Gil it has to be an "event"!
You know hot chocolate, pictures, the works.

Funny adventure this week.
We were able to find a decent gym this week..."Crunch".
It is a decent walk and is pretty clean and new,
lots of Parsons and NYU students.
So we went a bit overboard this weekend!!

Come Monday, I could barely walk!
Instead of crunching it,
we decided to take a walk to Chinatown!
We ventured towards downtown,
past the east village, past alphabet city,
to the famous neighborhood.

Gil wanted some fresh fish and I wanted Chinese food!!
Walking by we saw "5 items for 4 dollars".
WHAT A STEAL Right??
Quickly we find that this Chinese food is not meant for gringos and mexicans.
Well, unless intestines, frog, fried whole fish, and about 25 other items not found at PF Changs are your thing.
We got some familiar "looking" items and about half way through we both were amazingly "full".
As we walked (ran) out we chalked it up to a fun NY experience.
We bought some fresh fish next door and walked (ran) 24 blocks back home!

Just a story,
great day today,
I got a freaking parking spot right in front of the building,
the holy freaking grail of city commuters,
and we decided at 5 to run to times square to try to win $20 dollar lotto tickets to Wicked at 5:30!!
Picture it,
(side note-when I got home Gil made me put on these chinese foot pads on the bottom of my feet that are suppose to detox my body, but really feel like I am walking on bean bags, oh and btw Gil threw his back out :-) now picture it,
Jake running threw times square (with bean bag feet), leaving the subway at 5:28 two blocks away from our destination,
Gil hobbling behind ("leave me, leave me, save yourself" haha),
me running through the doors in a very dramatic fashion at precisely 5:30!!
Only to find an empty theater,
the lotto was at 4:30 they tell us,
"OH YEAH, WELL I JUST RAN THREW TIMES SQUARE 10 DODGING BUSES, 9 TOURISTS WHO THINK NY IS BUYING A HOT DOG ON THE STREET FOR 8 DOLLARS, 5 HOMELESS PEOPLE, 4 TAXIS DRIVEN BY HABIB YAHTRYSGS (you can never read their last names), 2 PROTESTS, ONE STRANGE PUDDLE, AND A FREAKING PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE!! BUT HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS :)

We ventured home once again with a fun story,
and now we sit, in our room, gorgeous by the way,
in east side manhattan,
with bean bags on our feet!

Love to All!
Jakey