Single mother of four busy children: Ari-16, Stinka-13, Boy-Boy-12 and Bird 10. I work in the telecommunications industry and have been for the past 16 years.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

NY International Car Show

Go if you have the chance. It’s awesome.

I went yesterday. I had never been before. Monday, my best friend asked me if I wanted to go since I was on vacation. I knew I would have to lie, cheat and steal to my kids in order to go without having them whine about wanting to go. Yes, I can say “no,” however, I will be harassed with cell phone calls all day long with a 9 year old asking me, over and over again, when was I coming home. The only child allowed to follow as Ari because she is 16. So, Tuesday night, my friend picked up Ari so that she can spend the night. I told the other kids that she was going over her best friend’s house and the next day I was going to the doctor to spend all day there. Yesterday, the kids went to the movies with a recreation center and, after that, my friend and my daughter picked me up and we left from here. My friend, not wanting to take a chance driving into the city, decided on us taking the ferry into NYC. That was a cool idea. I love riding the ferry and it’s been a few years since I have. Hell, it’s been damn near 20. An ex-boyfriend and I used to ride the Staten Island ferry back and forth just because.

Once in the city, we took a shuttle to The Jacob Javitts Center. It’s actually within walking distance, but since the closest street was blocked off due to construction, it was recommended that we take the shuttle. Once in, we paid for our tickets and walked, oggled, wished and prayed. It was amazing. All the new 2007 and 2008 cars. All the concept beauties. Wow! Ari fell in love with the Lincoln Navigator but I fell for the Yukon Denali. My friend fell in love with the Lambourginis. They were nice, however, the $400,000 price tags really turned them off for me.

One recommendation, which will save you lots of money if you go. Take a big pocketbook (women) or some type of shopping bag and load it up with 2 bottles of water and 2 or 3 sandwiches. They had concession stands there, however, they wanted $3 for water, $4 for sodas, $6+ specialty drinks and only Goddess knows for the food. Between Ari and I, I spent $24 for round trip ferry tickets and $28 for 2 tickets to the event. Let’s not forget the $10 for the two programs I purchased. I’m not spending another $50 on hotdogs, soda and ice cream. Hell, after we got back into NJ, we went to P.F. Chang’s for lunch/dinner and that cost me about $40 + tip.

So now, I’m sitting here, looking through the car books and drooling over the Yukon Denali. One car that did piss me off was the new Dodge Caravans. Despite having more storage space (mine virtually has none), they aren’t as roomy as they used to be.



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