Yikes, totally forgot about day 5 of the first trip to NYC

Geez, I'm sorry. I totally forgot about blogging about my last day of the first trip to NYC. That sounded confusing!!

So here goes... of what I can remember... lol

We arrived in town on Friday to do more site seeing. Went to the World Trade Center location. It was very sad to see how big the area really was and how many lives were lost. You see it on the news but to actually see it in person is just so humbling. We also visited the fire station directly across the street. I took a few pics for Jess there.

We walked around Wall Street and finally made our way back over to the theatre. We were meeting Howard, another fun Ace friend for the evening show. When Howard arrived, we took some pics out front at the big Ace posters and then headed into the bar next door for a few drinks until show time. I'm not a big drinker and but that night I had way more than usual.

Howard and I loving Ace!

Ace has us backstage again with Howard. That was a surprise for Howard, he had no idea and was so happy! Howard even wore his famous spelled wrong Aceaholic shirt and Ace LOVED it!!We just took a group picture this night backstage since we had already taken pics so many days in a row. But then when we were leaving Ace said, lets have a group hug... and OMG it was long and tight and I started to cry. I'm sure it was a combo of being at the WTC that day and then thinking this was the last time I would see Ace in who knows how long. After the group hug he just hugged me, the tighter he hugged the more I cried. Geez I can't believe I did that. He kept saying stuff to make me not cry but it didn't help... he was saying, but you had fun right? It was a great time right? So as I was trying to stop sniffling I was telling him that I was coming back with John, that he had to see his performance too. So then he said yes, please being John, he will love it...

Everyone was waiting for me to dry my eyes so we could walk out in front of everyone waiting to meet Ace. I really didn't want to walk out there in front of everyone like that. So I got it together and we walked down the sidewalk towards the bar again. Howard wanted to take a pic of the big billboard of Ace so we headed up that way. Then I got a picture text msg from Jessica, she had just won an award from the Hillsborough County Fire Dept for being the most charitable firefighter in the county. So the tears started again. I can't remember when I cried twice like that... was it PMS or what? Ok I was ready for more drinks... so headed back to the bar and then had some more fun with Howard. He is so funny... had me laughing the rest of the night. No more tears!

We hung out there until about 1:30 and then headed back to the train station for our last trip to Long Island.

The next day we just packed up and hung out at Linda's until it was our flight time. On the way to the airport we stopped at the post office to pick up Kimberly's passport so she could fly home, it arrived just in time.