New York, New York

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I'm leaving today.

I want to be a part of it.

New York, New York.

    I was beginning to feel a bit frustrated with the traffic and number of tolls, but this emotion was quickly replaced with a nervous pit in my stomach as I drove atop a hill overlooking the picturesque view of New York City.  I was greatly intimidated with this skyline seeing that it was more than quadruple the size of any city I had visited before.  A rush of fear came over me knowing that I was in the driver's seat heading into the third most populated city in the world.  Although the weight of the city rested on my passengers, PDub and Doubles Shark-Whisperer, they weren't behind the wheel getting ready to battle east coast residents driving, walking, and biking throughout the city.

These vagabond shoes

are longing to stray

right through the very heart of it

New York, New York.

    The reason for our visit to New York City was not as tourists but instead as movers.  Doubles Shark-Whisperer, our traveling nurse, had chosen this great city as her next assignment.  We moved her belongings into her box of an apartment, unpacked, organized, and used the rest of our long day to experience the city.  We first headed to Central Park for a reminder that nature does exist within this great mass of skyscrapers.  After watching all of the exercisers, we headed to stuff ourselves with some New York style pizza....another blog.

Central Park with the Maya and Phoebe

On a bridge in Central Park.

I want to wake up in a city that doesn't sleep

and find I'm king of the hill,

top of the heap.

    Before retiring for the evening, we headed to Times Square to be lost in the crowds and blinded by the lights.  The number of people is indescribable, and I felt very small in such a concentrated population....Something I was not too excited about.  However, the well-lit billboards drew your attention away from "a drop in the big ocean" feel.  We took our picture and went home.  The next day, we headed to Battery Park to view the Statue of Liberty.  My first comments described how disappointed I was in the size, but after researching, the statue is actually about two miles from our destination making it appear very small.  Again, we took our picture and returned for our vehicle, hugged goodbye, and drove back to Arlington.

Times Square where people never sleep....I mean how could you with those lights?

The extremely small thing that I am pinching happens to be the Statue of Liberty.

These little town blues

are melting away.

I'll make a brand new start of it

in old New York.

    Although I will return to visit New York City, I'll go ahead and continue my time in the D.C. area.  My new home seems to be small apples compared to the Big Apple.  Speaking of apples, it's time for lunch....