aggienaut | 01 of 30 - VI - Epic Spain 2009 Pt 1 (Reply)

   Mainly because flights from NYC to Spain were only $300 round trip, my friend Kerri and I decided to take a random vacation to Spain.
   But this deal only worked for flights from NYC. So I flew to NY and from there to Spain and back .. and then back here. And while I'm doing that, I might as well spend a few days in NYC right?

   When I came through NYC on Epic Roadtrip 2007 I skipped the city entirely, dropped off those who wanted to see it and continued on my merry way, with the reasoning that I would surely find myself in NYC again, but how often are you on an epic roadtrip? Well on May 8th I found my prophecy fulfilled.

   First observation: La Guardia Airport is extremely badly connected to the public transit system. I came in at 11:30 at night, and one bus ride and two different subway lines later it was 1:30 in the morning and I was finally arriving at Kerri's place after a giant zig zag across most of the city.

   The next day (Saturday) we were going to go the Metropolitan Museum of Art but it turns out there's this huuuge frigggen park all around it called "Central Park" (who knew!) and we ended up just strolling about in said park all day.

   That evening my friend boxsofrain met up with us and we set out to find a "blind pig party." We found where it was supposed to be but it wasn't really going on it seems. So we bar hopped a bit and found our way to the corner of Brooklyn known as Williamsburg.
   Eventually we ended up at a bar where a bunch of people were playing the drinking game "flip cup" and joined them. Turns out Kerri is rather good at such things.

   Sunday we just kind of lazed around (Kerri & I and her roommate Sarah). In the evening the girls made delicccious fajitas and homemade salsa and Kerri's coworker Claire came over and we had a delightful little fiesta.

to be continued...

Anachronistic Picture From Later in the Trip:

Pilar Basilica & the River Ebro, Zaragoza, Spain

Meanwhile, Today! -- 75 Needles in 75 Hay Stacks

   Back at work today. It's time to order new queens to replace any old queens that are no longer functioning properly / have been replaced by potentially africanized queens. Which means that I had to FIND the queen bee in each of some 75 hives. Where's Waldo is a piece of cake compared to this.

   As usual I was wearing the minimum amount of suitage I could get away with, because the suit is too hot, the gloves too cumbersome, and the veil makes the already tedious task of finding queens a lot more difficult as you are looking through a screen. Fortunately I had already put on a veil when I opened up this hive that apparently had become rather Africanized, but I got stung so many times on the hands and arms that later for short periods of time I couldn't unclinch my fists due to muscles freezing up. d:
   Good times! Still more fun than working in an office (seriously).