Taste Of Snow

Today started out a little off. Well, I was off. I was getting ready to catch the bus and realized I had one minute to go so I rushed down the stairs closing and locking all doors as I went. As I stepped on the porch I saw the bus pass by my hand we're still on the doorknob. I heard the door lock. I turn to open the door and realize someone locked it and walked away so I rang the doorbell nothing happened. I'll running the top doorbell and the bottom doorbell no one came to the door. I knocked on the door, no one came to the door. So I called Sonya the landlady and she didn't answer her phone. so I rang the doorbell constantly. It wasn't until I peeked through her front window that she decided to come answer the door. It took 5 minutes for me to get back in the house but I was cold and it felt like forever. Realizing that I left my keys didn't make me feel any better. The reason I was rushing out of the house was because I was in total elation about seeing Gerald and his mom Sam again today. Today was the day I would finally get a tour with them. We met at Port Authority by the Jackie Gleason statue. From there we rode the Big Tour Bus. We took the lower Manhattan tour. I wasn't too happy about sitting at the top of the bus because I saw snowflakes as I entered the train station earlier. Mind you, it is much warmer where I live than Manhattan. But I did want to get the full experience of the tour so I sucked it up and set up front like Sam told me to. This particular tour bus burgundy and yellow, I I kinda liked the colors. The tour bus covered everything from Times Square to the World Trade Center, to the fashion district. The funny part about the tour was every area we covered was an area I had previously gotten lost in since I had been here. All this time I've been in and out of historical places in areas and had no idea half the time. Smh. After we finish the tour we were treated to lunch by Sam at TGI Fridays!
  The prices are so high I almost didn't order. Almost But I didn't have to pay. Lol. We were good and full and ready for the next part of my tour which fortunately involved walking. By the time we left I could feel my toes and fingers again and stay tightly wrapped in my jacket, scarf, turtleneck  sweater, sweat pants, jeans and sneakers. Gerald made fun of me because he had taken off his coat and was warm and so was Sam. I told them "I'm a summer baby I don't do cold". Sam even bought a sangria to keep us warm. I added a hot chocolate in case that didn't work.  I had no idea how close the Rockefeller Center was to Times Square. The walk took no time and we could see the lights on all the trees from three blocks up. Walking through the area NBC was open to the public and I didn't know that. There's a lot of shops and food there we even passed the Rainbow Room. By then I'm cold again but I don't care. The moment we headed to the ice skating rink my mouth dropped again. I really love light! There were angels and Greek statues in gold engraved on the walls! I even saw the tree that would be lit for Christmas but it wasn't decorated yet. The amount of people out today was maddening. I know it will be worse by Christmas but I will try to brave it all. I was so excited I wanted to take pictures by everything! We even walked by Saks Fifth Avenue to look at the windows! Their windows were so beautiful and I wasn't prepared for the light show that started playing as we walked away! I couldn't get my phone out fast enough because I was too busy staring like a little child pretty lights. I'm such a kid. We also stopped at St. Patrick's Cathedral. It was so beautiful from the outside I almost cried. Everything about it architectual a perfect. It was old and out of place yet perfectly sculpted. Inside was equally beautiful except all the scaffolding from the renovations and the people who got in my way and the kids who also got in my way. You could almost feel the history of the place. I felt an energy, my teeth were buzzing. It was strange. I only felt it as I near the back of the cathedral. On our way out of the building I saw the statue of Atlas! We walked all the way back to the Port Authority station from there. I have been waiting on a tour with these people for years and it finally happened! This was my Thanksgiving.
As usual this app is giving me grief with uploading pictures but I will find a way to post them.
http://www.saintpatrickscathedral.org/