Epic Day

Point 1- Rachel is blogging again. (Round of applause, please.) Here she is.

Point 2- Epic Day rundown and photos.
















Now, I would try to caption each of these photos, but that'd be too tedious. I can however, take you through the EPIC DAY with my words.

1. Arise at 730. Out the door by 830. I understand that Axe is my guest and he arises early, but I'm not sure what people do on the weekends this early, so I try my best to accommodate him.

2. Axel tries his first egg and cheese sandwich on a New York bagel. He's so happy.

3. We walk from the East side to the West side. Through Columbus Circle (my first time) and up to Boat Basin, my favorite place. On the way, we pass a fun dog park, and lots of bikers. Axel also makes me stop and rest a lot since he is an 80 yr old man in a 25 year olds body.

4. Get to Boat Basin. Attempt to have a drink, but realize it's still only 1030 and that'd be pretty terrible. Begin to walk downtown, along the water and then realize "let's just take a cab."

5. Jump in a cab with a West Afrian cabbie who proceeds to chat with Axel about the Middle East and that he knows Arabic and English. I stay silent and just want to get to where we have to go.

6. Arrive at USS Intrepid. Axel begins to have a heart attack since this is where I Am Legend was filmed (he informs me this is where Will Smith shoots golf balls into Manhattan) and there is a black jet that apparently is invisible in the sky. (That's pictured above.)

7. Henrie talks to us about the ship and how big it is and how it's made different than Japanese ships. Something having to do with Steel on the top deck versus Wood. I'm still not sure. Axel eats it all up and I'm nervous they're never going to stop chatting US Naval History.

8. We pass a room called "Marine Berthing Area" and I naturally think this is where the female Marines have babies. Axel tells me that there were no female Marines in WWII. I believe him.

9. We continue to look around the ship and look at all the planes. They're pretty cool, I have to admit. The coolest video I took I have posted on here.

10. We had lunch and somehow, lunch was more epic (for me) than the USS Intrepid.

11. Took a cab down to World Trade Center to look around, explore, and visit the Memorial Museum of the day that changed Axel's (and the rest of the world's) lives.

12. We continued to walk around after having enough sullen moments. Axel needed a new pair of shoes, so we went to Century 21 and I bought Marc Jacobs shorts. He didn't buy shoes.

13. We walked over to South Street Seaport for some sun and more shopping. J Crew was able to give Axel a run for his money and he purchased his first pair of Sperry Top Siders. Now, he just needed a ship.

14. Which we then FOUND and boarded a real-life civilian-not-allowed Coast Guard ship. It was cool for Axel and I just thought it was cool to be on the water in the sun next to the Brooklyn Bridge. Okay, fine. It was really cool to be on the deck of a Coast Guard ship too. ESPECIALLY since it was named "Pride of Boston" and was the Massachusetts Coast Guard's ship.

15. Ventured out to Brooklyn for Woodsy Pride's show. Enjoyed myself with some co workers and my lovely friend Jen. Oh yeah- Axel too. It was alot of fun, but then we walked into a bar that was basically a drug den and I peaced fast. But the rest of the night was nice.

16. Got home. Ate cold gluten-free, milk-free pizza and fell asleep.

17. Sunday morning came. I shook the air mattress that Axel was sleeping on. We made coffee. Got breakfast in Central Park and then he headed home.

18. I relaxed in front of the computer for a little bit. Talking with my friend. We discussed that we needed to see each other face to face so we got margaritas in Murray Hill. Beautiful day it was, so, naturally, we drank outside.

19. I headed over to Pookie and Sebastian and bought a pair of jeans (half off!) that I'm wearing now.

And so here we are. Tuesday. And that was my whole weekend. Kinda. There was more. But would you even read the rest of it?





*Epic Day is a term coined by 2 infamous people. One, Axel Thomas, and one, Brittney Lee. Reason the term was coined was that one recent Saturday, those two aforementioned people arose in the morning in New York City to begin exploring at 830AM to not come back until nearly 2AM that evening. These photos are just a small amount of proof that the exploration of the day was EPIC. Please know that a compilation video, aptly titled "Epic Day," will be completed in the coming days and will also be shared with you, my awesome readers.