When’s the Next Bus?

When’s the next bus…. Now that is a really good question to ask yourself before you are waiting at the bus station. We spent the day roaming around New York looking at the window displays and people watching. We didn’t really have any concrete plans, just some general ideas as to where Macy’s and a few other notable stores with windows displays were located.

Mid afternoon we were starting to get tired and we head to the Port Authority Bus station to head back to New Jersey and we arrive at the bus platform 7 minutes after the bus is scheduled to leave. Unfortunately because it is Christmas, the bus schedule is on holiday hours which means that the next bus was in 2 hours time.

The funny thing (strange, not ha ha) was that we knew that it was a holiday schedule and we had a bus schedule with us but we did not bring it out of the fanny pack until seven minutes after the bus that we wanted to be on had left. Oops!


Keith’s unpublished entry from Sunday …
So we arrived here in New Jersey this afternoon and we have been taking it easy. The ride was a bit stressful, as the driving was in the fog for the last part. We watched a movie this afternoon and then braved the local store to pick up a few things to hold us over, orange juice, milk, cereal, and the Simpson’s Movie. I forgot the milk and went back into the store to get it while Deb waited and of course being the impulse shopper that I am I picked up the movie that was in the aisle next to the check out. I am sure that we’ll enjoy it tomorrow.

Right now we are watching some local TV programs and there was an advertisement for the Roy Jones Jr. fight, which takes place on January 19th. We will be back then and I am a big fan, so I got excited. I came right over to the laptop to check out the ticket prices. For the nosebleed sections way, way up in the rafters of Madison Square Gardens, the cheapest seats can be had for only $139. Of course I would love to be able to get the ring side seats but unfortunately I do not have a spare $21, 177 to get a seat. I guess I will have to wait until it gets replayed on the sports channel in a couple of months or maybe I’ll meet Donald Trump while we are here and we’ll be become instant friends and he’ll insist that we accompany him to the fight… and the dream continues.