And the Story Continues

First off I will answer a couple of questions posed in the comments section. Yes Mike,the room is included,we spent three nights there.Very nice motel. And yes, Karl I do type this myself...and let me tell you it really pisses me off when I write a long,interesting and sometimes quite humorous blog and it goes "poof" off to never never land.And last but not least,hello Laurie,nice to hear from you. Trust me,the cost is minimal and you will have a ball. Talk your sisters into going and you will all have a great time. The tour is aimed toward shopping. Now, back to my saga,lol. After we did the ground zero tour,we headed back to the motel to clean up and get ready to go back into Manhatten for the evening. We left the motel around 6pm, the comedy club we had tickets for, started at 8:15, so we decided to tour a bit more. My chronology may be a bit off,but you guys will never know,lmao. Anyway sometime Friday we went to the New York City Hard Rock Cafe. First time I have ever been and it was quite interesting. The menu has a little blurb about how it all started. Not sure where the first Hard Rock Cafe was, but London comes to mind. Apparently Eric Clapton was a regular and he suggested the two owners put a metal plaque on his table so he would always have a seat, they in turn asked "why not give us one of your guitars?", the next day a guitar arrived from Clapton . The following week another guitar arrived from Pete Townsand from "The Who" stating his guitar was as good as Clapton's . From then till now they have recieved over 60,000 different peices of memorbilia from celeb's. Just thought I would share that tid bit of info. Anyhow, we checked out the sights from 6pm till 8:15, and let me tell you,it is all just a blur, really over whelming. The best I can do to describe N.Y.C is to think of Toronto on steroids,seriously,the crowds and the traffic just go on and on. We get to the comedy club and the deal is, $5 cover and a two drink minimum, $50 later,lol( but then again it was one of our least expensive ventures), and the comediens weren't that good. The Emcee was pretty entertaining and of course our tour guide has an "in" with the club . I guess she gets a cut for suggesting the place.Being Canadians, we were the butt of many of the comics jokes, light hearted stuff tho. I guess last year they went and of course the language is right up my ally,lol,anyway there was a retired nun on the tour and no one knew. They still talk about it in their act. The last comic was a fag and wasn't too shy about telling every-one. Not really into fag humor. The best was yet to come...don't know if I can do it justice tonight or wait till tomorrow. Ok I won't make you wait. The tour guide, Lee got into the bailies at the comedy club and proceeded to entertain us on the ride back to the motel. Now you have to picture this...there are 50 of us on the bus and some of THEM are a little older than some of US, which made it all the funnier. This girl has been the picture of professionalism up till that night. She proceeds to enlighten us with little about her life and a funny story about her and her husbands life. She starts out with, WE got pregnant and then WE got married, and how thats just the way it was. She tells how her and him move into an apartment her father inlaw owned and how the rent went up $100 and how she wont forget. I believe it was Paris Ontario, and she referred to it as the "ass hole" of the world,lmao. She had a whole story on how she hated being up the stump, how hairy the baby was,and how she was embarrassed to take the little "monkey" out in public for the first few months. But the best was about the two cats mating on the bedroom window sill outside and how the window had been painted so many times, she couldn't open it. We all know the racket cats make when they're in heat. I guess this went on night after night till they fed them some special treats,lmao. To hear her making those noises over the microphone and then telling us about the purring after was hillarious. I told her she should have gotten up on stage at the comedy club as she was more comical than the comics there, I know some of the humor is lost in the translation, one of those times when you just had to be there.. Well I guess that's all for tonight and I will probably wrap this up tomorrow or the next day. You'll just love hearing how, I heard 6 o'clock, Ivy heard 6:15 and the real time was 5:45, remember I told you how the bus don't wait? More about that tomorrow...nite all. p.s these pictures are off the disc I purchased,beat mine all to hell.