I made it back from Manhattan to now tell you a tale. I was going to just use AudioBlogger but then I lost the number to call. So we left on Sunday morning around 9:00 am. I shortly fell asleep and woke up again around 11, somewhere past Harrisburg and before Philadelphia. We stopped for coffee and gas, which is cheaper in the east probably because it's closer to the sea ports, and I also bought some spicy peanuts because I wasn't sure whether we were going to stop for lunch or not. The coffee I got was toffee flavored which I found not only amusing for its phonetic fun, but tasty. I did some reading for school in the car and listened to Jeff Foxworthy talk about weird smells. Some time around 1, we made it to Newark but couldn't find the ramp to take us to Elizabeth where our hotel was, so we stopped in a Jersey McDonald's and had grilled chicken sandwiches while a local who talked much too fast for my boondock ears gave us directions. But, we made it. We stayed in a Hampton Inn. We really needed to find a post office in Manhattan the next morning, so we asked the desk people if they could just call and find out, but they went through this whole crazy ordeal of using a computer and printing out maps instead of calling the other hotels. It took about an hour and we watched opera while we waited. Then we ate dinner at another hotel called the Hilton and we had wraps with hummus in them, which were also tasty. The walk there wass trecherous though, because there was no sidewalk and lots of traffic and glass glittering all over the dirt path we took like little remote galaxies. Well, I'll finish in a little while since the computer lab I'm in is shutting down.