ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE (NEW YORK PART 2)
So this was one of two of my whine-y days. Lol. It was also Caitlin's birthday.
Friday:
This was parade day. Still wasn't feeling very great, and I couldn't eat breakfast. So I walked back to the hotel where we got our uniforms and stuff, and not wanting to wait for the elevator, Danielle dragged me up the stairs. I gave up on the fifth floor, and remembered my parents' room was on the fifth floor, so I went and crashed there, literally. They were trying to get me to go with them to Rockefeller Center, but I just wanted to sleep. Well, then Trevor called and he's like, let's hang out, and funnily, I sorta jumped at the idea, so I left and got ready and went with their entire group to Times Square. I didn't notice how long the walk was cuz I was still pretty excited to be there. Well, we got there, and it was amazing how lit up it was even in the day time. The only store we went in that day was the giant Toys R US store, lol. But it was still cool.
Well, when we got back to our hotel, we went around the corner and got subway, and then I went to Mitch's, Alex's, Sangkuk's and Trevor's room and we watched the parade on their TV. Had a pillow fight. That was fun. Then I had to go grab my uniform and get dressed. Back in my room Danielle and Hayley and Caitlin were hiding from Missy. So I got dressed and went downstairs. The room was like "*buzzbuzzbuzzbuzz* excitement!! 'Are you excited? I'm excited!'" So we loaded the buses. Once we got there, it was cool, and we were like yay! But then we realized that we were going to be standing there for a long, long time. And it was getting really cold. The parade was also backed up 2 hours, but some nice people let us in there slotso we could go early, but still. I was whining like crazy cuz my back hurt and I was getting tired of standing cuz you can't sit in uniform. My mom spent probably about $50 for hot chocolate that we just gave out to a bunch of people. When I tried to hand it out to people they thought I had like drank out of it or something. I'm like it's hot chocolate, no one's drank out of it, take it!!! Well, FINALLY we stepped off. I felt so out of place because I was wearing a band jacket and my hair was out of my shaco. Oh well, I was warmer and more comfortable than somepeople I bet. Although I prolly looked so stupid since I was on the back corner. My hands started bleeding, it was weird. Well, there weren't many people left when we started, but that was ok. We finished it and it felt cool to have marched now that I looked back on it, but then I was having a kind of not fun time. So we walked another 15 blocks (not that many) to the buses. It felt sooo good to sit down!!! (Oh ya, I forgot to mention this drum off that we and this other band had. It was cool, I guess they had never seen a cow bell?? And there were these two drunk guys trying to dance, and they later got arrested or so I heard. But that was pretty cool)
Well, then we went to the hotel where we had to rush to get redressed to go to the play. I looked like crap, oh well. I sat next to Sangkuk on the bus to Spamalot, it was very entertaining. They were passing these boxes of chewy bars back since we didn't have time to eat, and Kuk grabbed about 5 and shoved two into his mouth right away. Colin was all "
You only get one!" And Kuk responded (with his mouth full of chewy bar) "I only haff one!" It was so funny. Anyways, the play. It was funny, I'd never seen the movie, so it was good. Afterwards we walked all the way back from Broadway to the hotel. For a while when everyone was all "It's soooo cold!" only my feet were cold, which was strange. I just hurt from all the walking that day. Well, we went to dinner at the breakfast restaurant. We couldn't get a table for all of us, so I sat with Mitch. It was a little quiet. But all of us were pretty tired I guess. Then we walked back to the hotel and went to sleep.
Well, that was Day 2 in NY, NY. Day 3 later.
LE
