Learning Across Moms Knee

New York - Day 1

The departure is at 05:45, Nicola has chosen not to defeat jetlag sleep and still managed to be late, coming to the shower in 0543.

Andrea and her mother are waiting with great patience and go to the airport.

The earlier flight to Rome is super late, so much so that when it should probably start from our (delayed who knows when), the Miss Check-in is aware of this after he sent the baggage of Nicholas, and moves us much chaos on the previous flight.

We leave the check-in seeing a man in a suit that runs to put the label on the new store of Nicholas, now swallowed by the conveyor belt. The

we already lost.

In Rome not suffer additional security checks, and we separate into three separate places: Nicholas and George in second class, Andrea in Business.

Shortly before take-off of a Sicilian family (mother, father and child) is repeatedly crossed and soon after his father asks if he can turn around a lady the phone because "it's scary ...

The flight proceeds without any major hitches, and beside me there is a mouse-chick Albanian / American (born in 1985).

Only problem: my lcd screen does not work! Will the curse of Eric ... sin, because because the entertainment system includes a console to play.

The gentlemen in front of me get stranded in a simulation of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" when asked "If I have a goal in hand, what have I removed?" [Replies: camera, phone, and I do not remember that other nonsense]

Upon landing place other fun things, in order:

1. a display screen on the ceiling began to rain water on the passengers plenty of water ...
2. the Albanian girl picks up the bag to throw up (but in the end resist)
3. another screen starts to rain water on an elderly lady, who is sweeping up the flight attendants.

The documentary check is very rapid, both for immigration to the Customs. Noteworthy is the fact that the use beagle instead of German Shepherds ...

take a series of trains and we meet with Valentine, who lives near the Columbia University.

After having emptied the bags we throw ourselves into the center of the city.

First, George tries to buy a ticket AT & T but can not: the first shop test on a single crop, the second says that his phone is not compatible with a 3G card. Mysteries of American ...

arrive at Rockefeller Center's and head to the Apple Store, but the street is the shop of Abercrombie &Fitch; do a mini row and enter, disappointed at finding only a model and not a model in lingerie horny .

Inside there are many boys and girls, probably all models, all in flip flops.

made some mini purchase at the Apple store we go underground, where Andrea tries to get a iPad --- with many problems can be surmounted.

For dinner we go to a "real" Japanese restaurant near Times Square, but is full and we have to wait.

The situation is worrying, because the police closed to traffic near a main road without explaining the problem, saying "it is a dangerous situation."

decide that it is nothing of that fact when we go back and find that the obsessive mania has forced the U.S. to close a huge street with dozens of police officers because a window was broken ...

Dinner is very satisfying, among the things that we ate there were the skewers of chicken skin.

After dinner we go to see the Columbia University: the campus is not as huge as you might expect, but pretty; go home by midnight and get ready for bed.