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Log: TTTatTTotT: The Merry Metropolis
2005-08-31 � 9:56 p.m.

Part Three: The Merry Metropolis

27 August 2005 continued

8:14 am � �I�m gonna punch you in the face!� � Katie
8:24 am � �Oh look what I did! I am caught on the basket!� � Carol
9:07 am � We are at a diner for breakfast. Carol ordered the side of fresh cantaloupe and she received a whole cantaloupe with just the top cut off. She then cut up the rest and distributed the excess cantaloupe around the table.
9:14 am � Our kooky waitress brings a tall glass of milk to our table and demands for us to tell her who ordered it. When we communicate, with some difficultly, that none of us had ordered any milk she wips out her notebook to double check. Then she creepily laughs and says oh it says Mellon, not milk, and then she rushes away with the milk spilling over the sides of the glass.
9:54 am � We say farewell to Brenda and Werner and will now depart for New York, New York.

10:03 am � �When we get to the Phillips be sure to tell them to call me �Junks�� � Katie
10:07 am � �AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, sorry Scott, I dropped the phone� � Carol
11:01 am � �Now why would the flies be at the gas station when they could be by the cows?� - Carol
11:28 am � We arrive in New York, New York at Randy and Cindy�s apartment.
11:30 am � We get upstairs and Gretchen and Jim are also here. Coolness.
1:20 pm � Scott joins us for real New York Pizza for lunch. Woo-hoo!
3:46 pm � Katie is off running to train for her marathon, but the rest of us (Ralph, Carol, Scott, Me, Jim, Gretchen, Randy and Cindy) go to a street fair where we meet up with Lauren!
7:04 pm � We are at some restaurant where the portions are gigantic. Scott�s club sandwich has two halves, both of which are larger than Scott�s head. It is so diculous it�s ridiculous!
9:47 pm � We just saw this musical called The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. It was hilarious. Mary and I should start writing musicals again, because if this play was on Broadway, ours could be someday too!
9:48 pm � Katie and Lauren depart to try and find Katie�s middle school boyfriend, Brian, and his band, the Teeth, while the rest of us head over to Birdland to see Tierney Sutton
11:00 pm � We cause a small fire at our table in Birdland. Luckily they do not kick us out.

28 August 2005

12:34 am � So when Tierney Sutton was chosen by the jazz radio programmers in the country Jazz Vocalist of the Year by Jazzweek Magazine, she totally had every right to win. It was great. Old standards with interesting and fresh arrangements to keep you tantalized. The Drummer, Ray Brinker, was in the top three jazz drummers I have every seen and I think I might place him at number 1. It was absolutely delightful.
1:13 am � We are back at the apartment, but nobody is going to bed. I drink some Limon cello in a very cool micro-goblet.
1:21 am � The parents decide to get Team America World Police, the un-rated version, off of pay-per-view.
3:34 am � I can not really believe that I just watched that with 3 sets of parents and Katie. Wow. Gross. Wow. Gross. That is some stuff I never want to see again, ever.
9:42 am � the parents wake us up and expect us to be ready in 20 minutes, for the second day in a row. Not cool.
11:43 am � All of us, Ralph, Carol, Katie, Scott, Me, Jim, Gretchen, Randy, Cindy, and Lauren, are all waiting outside of Serendipity to eat lunch. Approximately 100 group and partial group pictures happen during this waiting time.
11:58 am � Jessica sneezes in Scott�s face. On purpose. She realized that this was not a) what Jesus would do and b) hygienic as she was in motion but it was too late.
2:44 pm � Just the Meyer family is sitting in their seats waiting for the musical The Producers to begin.
2:47 pm � �Rochelle wants to go back and get her picture taken with that naked cowboy� - Annoying coughing and hacking lady behind us
2:48 pm � �Well it is the only naked man I have seen in a long time!� � I am going to assume this is Rochelle
2:49 pm � Houston is the biggest land mass city� - Annoying coughing and hacking lady behind us
5:33 pm - Annoying coughing and hacking lady behind us proceeded to ask Rochelle what the actor/actress said after almost every line throughout the entire show. Luckily, I figured out how to block out her talking, coughing and hacking and I was able to enjoy this quality humorous Broadway production.
7:21 pm � We go to Wo Hop�s for dinner. Tres delicious.
10:15 pm � We are at Smoke where we see trombone player Chris Washburne and the Syotos Band. It is some good latin jazz.
10:34 pm � �What is it? Rugby Shirt Night?� � Scott since three guys just came in wearing similar rugby shirts

29 August 2005

12:44 am � Katie: Mom you have some fuzz on your butt
Carol: AHH, GET IT OFF!

8:41 am � Today we are up with yet again only 20 minutes to get ready, but Mom and Dad are not even ready yet.
9:51 am � We arrive at Scott�s apartment 51 minutes late.
11:31 am � We are driving back to Randy and Cindy�s. That was literally the easiest move that both Katie and I have ever taken part in.
12:10 pm - Ralph, Carol, Katie, Scott, Me, Randy, Cindy, and Lauren all are at Burger Heaven for lunch.
12:17 pm � the waiter places an origami crane on the bill of my yellow baseball cap.
12:24 pm � the waiter brings me saut�ed onions, even though neither I, nor anyone else at our table ordered them.
12:31 pm �I am quite satisfied that neither my career or my life has anything to do with televangelism� � Ralph
3:32 pm � Katie, Scott and I are driving back to Hudson, Ohio without the parents. We just stopped to get some beverages at McDonalds and when we asked for cream for the coffee, our 8 year old drive-thru associate goes and fills a cup with milk to give to us. Carol should have added that Mifflinville is not only gross but the people are weirdoes too!

8:19 pm � We arrive back in Hudson, Ohio.

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