New York, New York

View from our apartment

Sony

Out on our fire escape.

Well, It looks like we've survived our first week here. It's been full of up's and downs, but overall it's been great. We flew in on Friday night and jumped in a taxi to get us to our apartment. Tip for non New Yorkers- If the cab driver complains about his tip, don't tip him more. I don't know why they deserve a tip anyways! Taxi rides are scary! It's like, "Hey here's $10 for giving me a heart attack!" Of course his liscence was expired, he hardly spoke english, and we listened to some foreign radio station the whole way.

We finally get our 8 bags up to our apartment and catch our breath then we look around the apartment and see that we'll be living in a nice place. We get all excited and open the windows up and probably 2 minutes after being in our apartment we hear 2 loud bangs followed by ambulance sirens and 2 cop cars right after. What the heck did we just get ourselves into?! The next day the neighbors try to reassure us that they weren't gunshots......but I know they were. And they were only a block and a half away from our apartment. Nice.

Saturday we got our metro cards and we were off to the big city! We found where Dan works and walked around time square and central park. It was a nice day and it got us really excited to be living in such an awesome place.

Sunday we went to church, lucky for us it's a 2 minute walk. The building was packed with tons of friendly people. Some of them are Opra singers or broadway actors and actresses. We met a lot of really nice people. After church we went back into the city to make sure Dan knew his way to Sony for Monday. Suprisingly I knew my way around quite well, Dan on the other hand didn't quite have it down yet;)

Dan started work on Monday and he LOVES it! International marketing is what he wants to do, and so this is almost his dream job;) I'm working on finding a job that I can go to work when he does and come home when he does. I'm not a big fan of going on the subway and stuff by myself yet. I've done it once....and I'm going to wait for a while until I do that again;) There are some interesting people on the Subways. There's homeless people that will get on and tell everyone why we should give them money. There's kids that will come on and breakdance and swing around on the bars and stuff for money. Dan and I got caught between a man and a woman argueing the other night. The man stepped on her foot, she pushed him, he pushed her and I felt like I was with a bunch of little kids.

Dan got some free concert tickets for a girl named Kate Voegel. It was fun to get out of the apartment and see a little more of the city. Please email us and let us know how you all are doing. dhmorley@yahoo.com