So, for ten days, I was in New York City again. By this point, you have to realize that I have been to New York City way too many times and it holds only about ten grams' worth of charm for me and that's also only because of its trains. I am not a big fan of the enormous amounts of security procedures everywhere in NYC, totally dislike the $50 bills every time I visit a grocery store for, like, orange juice, some fruits, milk and bread and I think the traffic lights here are probably better anyway. Here = California. I spent some time there visiting the 5th Avenue glass cube Apple Store and I have to say that it looks pretty sweet. I wish I could have visited it at night when it reported looks even more sugary but it's okay and I got more than the gist of it. I also went on random rides on the Subway simply because I like the NYC Subway and I admire the future planning that was put into it in the early 1900s. The trip to NYC though, in the end, was inevitably boring as I had little to do. I was with my family though, and beyond the nagging, we had a fun time with me getting as many hours of sleep as I wanted and having a general blast. While I was there, we thankfully visited no friends and family in the area and I was deeply thankful for that. It also didn't rain while I was there but, as I was leaving, it started pouring and the radio-guy said, "It's raining today and it's 72 degrees and it looks like it's going to rain tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday". I just found that incredibly funny - don't ask me why. Coming back from New York, my flight was delayed by three hours. It was scheduled to depart at five-thirty in the evening. It was raining and there was lightning and the captain said that they couldn't refuel with lightning and so they waited for like an hour for that to stop. Then we waited for another half an hour for this Air France plane next to us to leave, and another hour and a half we waited in the queue for take-off because, by then, about 30 planes had queued up in front of us and we all wanted to leave the dratted airport. One of the funny things was that the captain kept apologizing to us that they couldn't serve water while we were waiting for three hours to take off because they had limited supplies and wanted to save it for the air. We were in New York City, it was raining and the captain was acting as if we were stranded in the middle of the Gobi Desert. Eh… but he was funny and kept making comments every fifteen minutes or so to keep us awake, which I'm not sure I appreciated, being of the mind to go to sleep.

It's so good to be home again…

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