New York City

          Revisited New York the other day with one of my best friends. It's a lot easier to navigate once you don't have 50 people singing trying not to get hit by taxi drivers and other New Yorkers trying to get out of the way of your pack. The 9-11 sight still stunned me almost 10 years later. I can still remember that day, I got home and I was so excited to see that my mom was picking me up because she never picked me up. All of the parents were there and when we got home, we were sitting in the kitchen and the TV was on, the two buildings on fire were on the screen as she and my dad told us that our friend was in there but had gotten away from the crashes. I specifically remember her saying with tears in their eyes that they didn't know what's going to happen next and that everybody was afraid. The memorials and Freedom Tower, while I was against them at first, will be an amazing sight and will definitely be a future visiting point.
         Also while touring the city, we stopped into what can only be explained as my future home. The Drama Bookshop, filled with plays, guides, and thousands of helpful pages to actors, directors, screenwriters, and all people of the performing arts, was quite the experience. I couldn't decide what to buy and what perils of wisdom lay beyond the intriguing covers. Finally deciding on a play by a playwright I had recently met and two books to guide me in great directions as I explore acting, it was an amazing little shop.
          Grand Central back home with "Back in the New York Groove" playing in my head and my legs ached from the day as I stared at my slice of Junior's Devil's Food Cheesecake (one of the 5 most unhealthiest things you can get at a restaurant - yum), I was tired. Falling asleep on the couch during yet another screening of Good Will Hunting, it was a good day back in the city.