Well, I'm home from NYC. The trip was absolutely amazing, spectacular, actually there are really no words. I've never seen New York before, so I was floored. Everything was so much better than it is on TV, although the parade was kind of bad in the sense that we were up at two thirty AM after getting four hours sleep tops and didn't get to go to bed until eleven-ish that night. There was a six hour downtime, though, but I doubt anyone actually got any sleep. Yeah, we were all ridiculously wired from all the adrenaline.

I have to say, though, my favorite part was definitely going to see Wicked on Broadway. While I couldn't force myself through the book, the musical was beyond words. I cried at the end, but I loved all the music and the acting was insanely awesome. My favorite song (and I apologize right now for the cliche) was definitely Defying Gravity. I've never seen anything like it, and I've only seen two real musicals (BriarPatch and Wicked).

We also saw the Rockettes, but that was last night and, well, there's only so many times you can see a line of pretty women do the can-can before it gets old. I nearly fell asleep, but I did manage to watch the entire thing. Although, allow myself to be fair to myself, we didn't have a whole lot of sleep the night before and I was dead on my feet walking out. I also owe a huge debt to one of my friends' parents, I ran out of money and they got me a Rockettes t-shirt!

A few bad things happened on the trip. Relationship problems that I don't want to go into at the moment, I lost my ring, and well, there was this one incident that nearly made me late for Thanksgiving dinner that embarrasses me just thinking about it. But I did manage to pull everything together and I think I looked really pretty for dinner. Actually, my section leader who is almost like my older brother was scared out of his mind when I walked up to him. He couldn't believe it was really me!

So yes, the trip was beyond words. It was insane. There was so much other stuff that I didn't get to write about, but I'm tired and I forgot to take my magnetic bracelet so my carpal tunnel is acting up again. But thank [insert name of deity here] I don't have to wear the stupid Ace bandage on my ankle anymore! Achilles Tendonitis FTL!