Oh, the best laid plans of Mice and Men (aka: New York - Day 3)

We had planned on doing a lot of different things through out our trip... and we did most of them, but on this day... we planned on doing a lot that we ended up not doing at all. David and Dorothy were really lazy and took FOREVER to get ready and get going... we didn't leave till around 3:30pm. so we get there and are STARVING. making the first order of business to eat, on the way over in the fairy we decided we'd rather go see the Intrepid than the Moma... we start walking toward the Intrepid hoping to find a place to eat along the way, even if it was just a small hotdog stand, but instead we found this place on the pier called, "P.D. O'Hurley's" it was small, and quite empty, but it worked. So we ate there, and the food was actually really good, and not too expensive... i had a burger and a beer, and david had some stew, and dorothy had some chicken pot pie that wasn't a pie at all. all of our meals were really good, and quite filling. after our meal we headed over to the Intrepid intending on paying whatever the fair might be, but to our distress (and not my surprise) it was closed, and we were not able to view it in its entirety. Now to understand how disappointing this was for me, you must understand a little bit about my past. When i was young whenever we'd go to the beach i'd always want to go see the Battleship North Carolina, but either we didn't have enough money for it, or when we did have enough, it was closed due to the time of year... so i never went, even when i was older and went with friends something always went wrong to keep me from going aboard. On a spontaneous trip to Charleston we could have gone and seen an aircraft carrier that was docked there... but no... f-ing Liz didn't want to go, and was being all pouty, so once again... i was not able to see this huge naval vessel... so, you can understand my disappointment, yet not surprise... at realizing that once again i was not able to go aboard another naval vessel. after this we decided to just head toward the Church we had been planning on attending and to just hang around in that area of town for a bit till church started. when we got there it turned out we had an hr and a half to spend, so we decided to see if there was an Urban Outfitters close by, my google maps said there was one a few blocks over so we started walking, but even when standing right at the dot where urban outfitters was suppose to be, it was not there... the one and only time throughout the whole trip where my google maps failed us. BUT while walking we found Midtown Comics... a fairly large comic book shop 2 stories infact... and it started on the second story haha, it was very interesting, there were def a lot of comics there and it didn't seem as rundown/nerdy as our local comic book shop, upstairs where a lot of back issues and a TON of figurines, HUGE figurines. after the comic book shop we headed to the church stopping at a starbucks so david could use the bathroom, and i could get something to drink/keep me warm (we used starbucks several times to use the bathroom while in the city) the church itself was in The Manhattan Center’s Grand Ballroom, it was kinda like an old theater with HUGE vaulted cealings painted at the top with angels and the such... but not seriously... there were a few who were wearing ripped jeans and playing guitars and stuff... but all in all it as a nice place. the service was nice, not too deep or heavy. afterwards we headed over to Strand Bookstore which is this bookstore that supposedly has 18 miles of books. i felt we needed to ride the subway at least once while in NY so we took about 20 min trying to figure out the correct route to take, me correcting dorothy mostly (which is funny seeing as how i dont live there and she does), we took one line down town and then were going to cross over to another but it was down so they gave us a voucher for the bus, so we waited in the snow for the bus to come for about 20 min, but all and all it wasn't a bad experience. at the book store i purchased a large old looking book about fables and mythologies, and Salinger's Nine Stories, which i had been meaning to purchase for a while now. Afterwards we headed over the the Sunshine Cinema, a small theater that showed old/indie/foreign films, there were two that we could choose from when we got there, and i randomly chose "Cherry Blossoms" because i vaguely remembered dorothy mentioning that it sounded good, and the other one looked like a biography which i was not in the mood for. So, turns out this movie was the freaken SADEST! movie ever, we were all crying our eyes out except david who has no heart. after the movie i turned to dorothy and said, "i need a beer" so we left with the intention of finding a random pub and sitting down and drinking a beer, we didn't even walk a block when we heard music coming from this small bar, so we decided to duck in and check it out. the bar was dimly lit, and there just happened to be a small circular table with 2 chairs in the front corner by the window, and another chair just sitting there, we re-arranged everything so that david and dorothy were sitting back in the corner and i leaning up against the window and we listened. the band was made up of a guitarist/singer (who sounded like Bod Dylan), a piano player, and a drummer. the music was awesome, it was chill acoustic music, some people were dancing up closer to the band, and not guetto lets get it on dumb dancing... but just kinda moving your body cause the music asks you too... and i sat there drinking my guiness wishing and hoping for something like this in my life on a regular basis; it almost brought me to tears... for there last song the band played "Sweet Caroline" and everyone sang along and cheered and it was AWESOME! after the band we decided to head out, it being well after midnight the fairy was no longer running to we had to take a bus, that was a bit un-eventful it was late and no one was there. we got home rather late and i just went to sleep.