August 6, 2010 9:00AM

Good morning!

I thought I would use this post to cover the two days I didn't post while I was in NYC.

So on Tuesday after work, Jersey and I went to the bus stop and waited for about 3 hours for the bus to show up (yes, it was that late). Then, the bus took so long to get to NYC that we arrived in the city at 2:10 AM. The last train for Ann's had left by then, so we settled down to wait like hobos in Penn Station for the 4:17 AM train. The cops told us to move, and we were finally getting comfortable when I heard that there was an Amtrak train going at 3:00 AM to our stop too!

So we bought tickets super-fast and headed out! We arrived at Ann's house at 4:00 AM, and her dad was nice enough to pick us up when she didn't pick up her phone. Then I crawled into the extra bed and crashed (Jersey got the couch bed).

I was up at 9:47 AM showering, eating, etc to get ready to go into the city. We got in just before 1pm, and we met up with Mike and Maeghan for some delicious Thai food! Then we wandered around NYC having a grand old time until about 4:30 PM. We got to the line going into the venue (Central Park Summerstage), and we sat down to wait it out.

The doors opened at 5:30 PM, and we got handed these free coconut water drinks (which we all thought were pretty gross). Ann said that she's had coconut water before and that this was nothing like it.

Then we watched the two opening bands, 'Holy Ghost' and 'Hercules and Love Affair' (which consisted of some transsexuals and some strangely arousing interpretive dancing). They were pretty good, but everyone was holding back until Hot Chip came on stage.

And then it was party time! It was such a great concert! and I got a copy of the set list off of the stage!

Afterwards, we stopped off at a small grocery, and I ate about a pound of vegan dumplings. Then Mike was like, 'We're going to miss our train!' So we ran from Central Park to Penn station.

And we missed our train, but they got on theirs. We sat around watching the videos I took of the concert (which I'll put up later), and I washed most of the gel out of my mohawk.

When we got home, I crashed.

We got up at 9:00 AM and got ready to go into the city to catch our bus. We snagged some cheap Chinese before getting on (with a tear-filled goodbye!) and heading back to Rochester.

Then the pre-freshmen came over to our place and we got pitas from the Pita Pit for dinner. They were really good, and Becca and her bf Matt made cheesecake brownies. Then we all watched the new episode of Futurama.

After that, the kiddos left, and I crawled into bed.

Yep, that's the quick version. It was an amazing few days, but I am dead tired of traveling and not getting sleep.

When I get home... naptime!

Have a great day!