it's my life...it's now or never

mmmeee at South Street Seaport with the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge behind me

So I postponed the Boston trip to instead see Bon Jovi in Central Park. That's right....I was one of 70,000 fans who crammed themselves onto the Great Lawn to enjoy a little bad medicine, if you will. Since people started lining up to get in the day before and we showed up about an hour before, we were a fair distance away from the stage. Scratch that, we were VERY far away. But it was all about the good music, the atmosphere, and an amazing live concert. In Central Park, nonetheless.

This is from our blanket area....with about 69,000 peeps in front of us. 

We were not disappointed. Just as I'm sure the people around us were not disappointed with our dancing and singing. The concert was "free" but you had to pick up tickets at certain locations at certain times and my friend Teresa was unable to do that. We bought ours off of craigslist for $25! A deal, I tell you! And a great deal for the guy who got them for free and sold them for $25. Apparently there was quite the controversy because some people were selling them on ebay for up to $1500. The people buying them obviously didn't realize that it was general admission, no assigned seating and on a flat lawn. Too bad for them. We continued to dance after the concert was over (in order to miss the crowd of course)...

me dancing  :)

Earlier that day, I met Teresa and her boyfriend, Chris, at the Bronx Zoo. It was the best zoo I've ever been to. While I love, love, love seeing all of the animals at a zoo, I usually feel sad for them that they are trapped in a small habitat that is sometimes pretty bare. The habitats at the Bronx Zoo were HUGE. But, they were set up in a way where you could see the animals from a lot of different view points outside of their enclosure so they were pretty close, too. It was a great time of the year to go and see babies. We saw a baby gorilla, lots of different baby monkeys of all different sorts, a baby giraffe, baby ducks, a baby baboon, and baby African deer. Cute, cute, cute!

The day after Bon Jovi, we explored Little Italy, Chinatown, and South Street Seaport. We walked a TON all weekend between the zoo, getting into the concert, and lower then Manhattan. There are waterfalls temporarily on display as part of an "art project" down by the Brooklyn Bridge. We sat at Pier 17 and enjoyed the sunshine and people watching. This was after eating pizza outside in Little Italy and me getting in the back of a van with a Chinese lady in Chinatown to buy a fake Coach purse. No worries, Mom, this is all normal. A little sketchy...but normal. They usually take you upstairs to the top of building in Chinatown so the cops don't arrest them for selling knockoffs but apparently the police were around so the Chinese ladies got on their little walkie-talkies, walked us a few blocks from the original lady whispering in people's ear on the street corner "you want Coach, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana?" and took us into the back of their van that was filled with knockoffs. An interesting experience and a cute purse for $400 less then what the "real" one would sell for. And really, who in Coeur d'Alene (or Athol) will be able to tell the fake from a real one.

A great weekend was had by all.