Ehhh....too much to write about. Thus, in short, NYC was:

• the Puerto Rican Day Parade


• walks through Central Park and Riverside Park


• NBA finals (Pistons!)


• pizza and beer


• walking, walking and more walking


• blisters


• Magnolia Bakery cupcakes


• dinner with Mark and Glenn Coolfer


• Chinatown, Little Italy, Chelsea and the East & West Villages


• knockoff designer bags


• cheap shopping


• Metropolitan Museum of Art


• the catwalk guy from American's Next Top Model in the Times Square subway station


• The Sopranos' Lorraine Bracco and Annabella Sciorra (both in Chelsea)


• Brooklyn and the water taxi


• beer (third round=always free) and darts at the Irish Rover in Queens -hands down my favorite night of the trip


• Empire State Building


• humid weather


• thunderstorms as soon as we boarded our return plane


• passed out woman on the plane - somewhere over Utah - possible heart attack?


• three doctors on the plane - on the cheap flight no less


• home

Now, after flaking out on several weekend plans (although we did manage to squeeze in a showing of Saved! and a visit with Kepi & Roach before they head out on the Warped Tour), catching up on laundry, cleaning and sleeping, it's back to normal, back to the 9-to-5, back to basics....