  i am in NY state now, about an hour NW of the city. what an interesting night last night. first of all it took way way longer to get there than i thought it would. i drove thru newark, which was very weird. the highway system up here is absolutely nothing like anything we ahve in FL. when i was in korea it was just like the one here, but i thought it was unique to seoul. so now i know.
oh, like the best part was seeing ads for broadway shows on the way. so i finally met my uncle at his hotel, and we left to return to the reception. it took like 2 and 1/2 hours. thru little towns and mountain roads and crap. got there, and they were all leaving. so we followed the school bus the wedding party was in (don't ask) and went to their hotel. where everyone was very very drunkenly wandering off to their hotel rooms to sleep with someone they met at the wedding (i am so so so glad mine was not like that. we just had wine, no liquor, and let me tell you- that is the way to go). so in general, yuck. my cousin wanted to stay for a while and visit with family she hadn't seen for a long time (understandable) so i witnessed all sorts of craziness.
drunken sluts are not fun to be around. but whatever. so, as a side note- if that is what most weddings are like, mine was an outstanding sucess. it was soooo great for many reasons, and no one barfed dowm the hallway (how classy). so since no one knew how to get back to our hotel, i had to convince the hotel clerk to mapquest me directions to my uncle's hotel. it took 45 min to get back. but, my cousin wanted to stay at her other cousin'd place where she had left her stuff. so i called my sister in tampa and asked her to mapquest that. so we set off from the hotel after dropping off uncle at his hotel.
at this point, it is like 2 am. the drive was supposed to be less than 4 miles according to map quest. over an hour later, we finally arrive at the place. sigh. luckily this guy has a nice apartment (he is back at the hotel with the drunken slut from the wedding). so we talked for a while and went to sleep after 5am. i got up a lot this morning, but managed to stay in my sleeping bag till 1140. now trying to convince cousin that we shoudl get moving, i want to see the big city.
but i suppose it is the city that never sleeps, so we can wait and stay all night. i think i am going to drive in, because the last train leaves at 1am, and i dont want to get stranded there or have to leave before we want. i really want to go to jekyll and hyde's but we will see. i need to call and see if we can get a reservation for a late dinner.
and chinatown is definately on the list, and seeing if there are tickets avaliable for sunday afternoon. i figure if i leave by 5pm sunday, i will be good to go. by the time it gets dark, i will be in familiar territory. and get there at like 10pm or so. ok, gonna have breakfast (string cheese and an english muffin). if i have time i may write about another in a long line of weird ass dreams. 
