I Left My Bladder In New York City

I took a weekend road trip and I'm actually still on it. and and I drove up to New Hampshire to celebrate the graduation of   Friday was spent in a car ride of oh… about 8 hours.  This was in large part because "Shadsie had never been to New York City before, let's take a detour through there."  Unfortunately, we are quite poor and limited funds kept us from actually stopping to actually *do* anything, expect of course an emergency pit-stop at a Starbucks to use the toilet.  

Some people leave their hearts in a city, I leave my bladder.  Typical for me, really.

We drove around looking at stuff and snapping pictures outside the window.  Wow, Broadway and Times Square are pretty.  Never knew manmade lights could outshine the sun.  Next time, it would be nice to have money to actually see "The Lion King..."  

Next time, we are NOT taking a car either.  Here's a tip for tourists:  Do not drive in New York City.  Do not drive in New York City. And lastly, DO NOT DRIVE IN NEW YORK CITY.  We. Almost. Died.  Okay, so we almost rear-ended a cab.  A few times.  And the cars that were not cabs and tour buses, well… here's where I said to AN "You know all the times we drive in Philly and we get cut off and run into people doing stupid things and they have New York license plates?  Now we know where that comes from."

After that, there was the drive through Connecticut, which was uneventful save for my leaving my stomach at a KFC.  I ticked another "state to visit" off my list.  Same with Massachusetts.  Then New Hampshire.  Arrived at the relatives' when they didn't expect. Zonked.  Felt awful the next morning so AN and Slag went with everyone to the graduation ceremony while I stayed home, slept, watched some "Invader Zim" and generally looking around a house full of books, artwork, leather helms and chainmail baldrics… (AN's relatives are interesting, and I felt right at home).  

The graduate came home.  Zippo4K gave me a great big hug when I gave him the present AN and I had for him:  A doe skull I found and cleaned.  Yep.  I found another person to talk skulls with.  Zip just got his biology degree, so he collects them for more scientific purposes than I do, but he treated me to a show-and-tell of his collection.  He had an interesting story about a coyote you'll just have to ask him about.  

Anyway, I'm being an obnoxious houseguest and everyone is saying we need to get on the road so it's time for me to.  Not looking forward to a very long car ride.