Katie's 99 in 999 (currently 55 in 555!)

DAY 4 - THURSDAY, MAY 17TH I have to brag for a minute. When Ricky and I decided that the New York thing was really going to happen, I wondered if we may be able to squeeze in a Boston day.  I went to Boston over spring break in 2008, and it's been my favorite "big city" ever since--Ricky wasn't over the moon about going (because that was one less day we'd be in NYC), but he could see how excited I was about it.  Also, I planned the whole trip, so he didn't really have a choice anyway. :)  So, I did some searching.  We were still about two months out at this point, but I discovered that Peter Pan Bus Lines (they use Greyhound buses?  I don't know how it works) offers a $1 fare from NYC to Boston (and back) if you book online a month in advance...so I set an alarm on my phone for the right day and scored two round-trip tickets for $4.50 (with tax)!  Since we took overnight buses, that $4.50 was also our NYC lodging cost for two nights.  Plea...

(prompt from here ) There are few things I love more than lists.  I think it's because one of the hardest parts of writing is the transitions. When you're having a conversation with someone about coconuts and you say "Hey, did you hear about those kangaroos in Africa?" out of the blue, that segue makes perfect sense to you,  because your brain just made a dozen different connections in a few seconds, but it leaves your listener completely in the dark, and it's pretty hard to explain all the steps between coconuts and African kangaroos to someone outside of your own head.  Even when I'm speaking, I'll interrupt myself with a new sentence (think Miss Bates in Emma ) because I'm already skipping ahead to a different thought.  Lists tidy all that up nicely, because I can just jump around however I want and no one is the wiser.  And, in the spirit of listing, I'm not even going to transition into mine. 10 Activities I Love (in no particular order) ...

DAY 3 - WEDNESDAY, MAY 16TH We weren't up nearly as early as we would've liked (again), but I sort-of-on-purpose made sure to plan everything important for not-the-morning, because I'm way past the point of giving myself that much credit. Since we weren't coming back to the hostel that night, we forked over $16 for luggage storage (two bags for two days? pretty good) and walked across Central Park (we picked a more scenic, less-frantic route this time) to get to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I have to throw some kudos at NYC right now, because the student prices for Met tickets are crazy affordable for how big the place is.  Because we slept in a bit, we only had about an hour and a half to spend in the museum, but I still felt like the ticket price was worth it.  We spent some time in the Greek/Roman/Egyptian art before trying to make our way to the European section; we got a little turned around and wound up in Musical Instruments, which wound up ...