I'd have to write a book to explain this last trip to New York, so I thought I would divide it into smaller posts, you can by pass them if you like, I will make sure that you will know it's a New York post by the heading.
Kent, Jamie and I took the 5 pm ferry on December 30th headed to Seattle for the night. When we crossed the border I was driving and I said that we were going to work with NYSUM to help with Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief.
I said the word work.
We were pulled aside to be further questioned about the fact that we would potentially be taking jobs from the Americans. If the American's were wanting to help, they'd be there already. We had to convince them that we paid for our trip, weren't getting any form of compensation.
So, just to clarify, we pay for our flights, our room and board, our incidentals. NYSUM doesn't give us ANYTHING for coming to work with them, except--warm fuzzy feelings of a job well done--and a week full of life shattering and impacting moments.
All worth the effort.
This trip was completely paid for by 2 families in BC, I am not sure that they want to be named for their kindnesses, so I will just say that the fee at the time to go was $950, which was covered by a family and then another came in with $150. which enabled me to get to Seattle. It was a huge blessing as I was looking at pulling out of the trip all together. And I could have, there were 6 adults on this trip, to 6 youth.
But, I make a darn good tour guide. I could get the team from point-to-point with little trouble.
So we got to our hotel, slept fitfully for about 5 hours. Left our car there for the week and headed out the morning of December 31st for New York.
The biggest question on our minds...Do we or do we not go to Times Square for New Years Eve....we didn't see this, although we heard Psy doing Gangnam Style
Taylor Swift in Times Square
Psy New Years Eve
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