Posted by Kathey on 10/14/2008, 10:19 pm
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Our adventure began on Monday night when I drove to the aunt’s. We only managed a few hour sleep and were up at 3am for our 6am flight. 
The lovely people at Continental served us Honey Nut Cheerios for breakfast. 
We were sooooo hungry when we got to Houston and grabbed a sandwich and a Frosty before we caught our connection to La Guardia.
This is the first time I’ve flown into New York and it was so neat to see the city from that view. We got our luggage and exited to the cab station, thinking it would be a fairly short ride. Such hopes we had. 
Our driver, Larry, was a young guy and very nice. I gave him the address of the hotel in the Bronx and we were tootling along and he pointed out Brooklyn Heights to us.
I’m not an expert on NYC geography, but I knew this was a little strange – the Bronx via Brooklyn? I thought well, maybe he knows a shortcut? By the time we got to Chinatown, I wasn’t sure what was going on. He says “Did you say it was Baxter Road?” Ack. “No, BOSTON Road…” *sigh*
He turned off the meter and started apologizing and was laughing at himself. He said that hadn’t happened to him since he first started driving. I assured him it was okay, that we didn’t have anything planned for that night. We joked with him that it was my California accent that caused the misunderstanding! We got to the Bronx and the poor guy got lost. We were literally going in circles. I finally got out our map and tried to help him. Never thought I would be in that position. I could see how the road kind of splits and Larry finally rolled down his window and talked to a local driver who led us to the hotel. So, we got a grand tour of the city that took about 2 hours.
We checked into our hotel and immediately began pouring over the take-out menus. We decided on Anthony and Joe’s Pizza. What a great meal.
Our tummies were very happy. I became a Garlic Knot Follower that night. We have an Italian restaurant here in town that is part of a chain. I’ve tried their garlic knots. I don’t know how they have the nerve to even put them on the menu. I texted one of my friends and was telling her how great these garlic knots were and I wrote “those fools” at our restaurant “need to be schooled!” 
Because of a change of plans, I ended up having to make a separate reservation for Tuesday night. The first reservation I made was only for Wednesday and Thursday night. I talked to the man at the front desk and he suggested that we check out in the morning and ask if we could just put our luggage into the new room. Bingo. 
The hotel staff was helpful. The subway station is so close.
You basically hang a right out the hotel door, cross the intersection and there it is. It couldn’t be any more convenient. We put our luggage in the new room and headed out for our first subway ride!
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