So after all the planning and back and forth email exchanges, our NYC weekend was finally upon us! I think we had picked a perfect weekend to go to the States, since there were no major snow storms that weekend affecting our travel plans. Our only bit of sad news prior to going was Tomomi cancelling her trip after she caught the flu. So our ladies weekend was down to three people. Regardless, we still had an awesome time touring…
Day 4 in Philly. We began the morning by going on a hunt to buy our transit day passes. This is part two to my horror story of taking the SEPTA. Basically, Philly uses a zone system with different day passes based on how far you travel. Since we needed to get to the airport in the afternoon, we had to purchase their Independence Pass, which should have been sold at all their subway stations. After exiting our hotel, we…
After staying up for the longest day in my vacation history, we got up at 8:00 a.m. to start heading back towards Philly. For some reason I was still energetic with only 3.5 hours of sleep. =P The weather in Atlantic City seemed to have turned colder overnight. There was literally no one on the streets when we checked out of the hotel. We took a jitney bus towards the station, then had to walk a few blocks to get…
So getting to the best part of my mini-vacation – watching JJ perform at the Borgata. I had pre-ordered my tickets through his fan club months in advance, so I needed to go pick them up prior to the concert. We took a taxi from our hotel to the Borgata, which was actually quite far away. On the map the hotels seem like they would be walking distance, but it took 15 minutes to get to the Borgata by taxi….
Day two in Philly was by far the longest day I ever had on vacation. We got up at 6:45 a.m. Saturday and didn’t go to bed till 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. LOL. Apparently I always do this to myself when I travel – I pack in too much. =P We got breakfast in the hotel lobby to start off our morning. After we finished checking out, we headed straight to the Independence Visitor Center to pick up our vouchers…