Mom's Visit

Now that my Mom is unemployed I had a weak moment and booked her a flight to visit me for 2 1/2 weeks. Not sure what I was thinking :)

She flew in the Thursday before my birthday. I didn't really take anytime off. I thought us spending 24 hours together should be kept to a minimum. The first weekend we just bumbed around and hit the mall. Then made some snacks and watched the Gators. The next day we were suppose to go to Bear Mountain for Oktoberfest, but the festival got canceled due to flooding. Since we were already up we decided to just hang around the city and see what trouble we could get into. Here is a picture from the M&M store. The only reason we went in was to look at the Christmas ornaments. I am my mother's daughter.

Next I thought we would take a stab at the discount ticket office in Time Square. Mom decided she really wanted to see West Side Story, so we got orchestra tickets for half off. I had never gotten tickets this way before, but I think I found my new weekend past time. The show didn't start until 3:00 so we had some time to kill. We ended up going to Madame Tussaud's wax museum. I've never been, but what the hell. It was interesting. Some of the statues looked so real it was freaky! Me and B :)

For my Birthday I bought us tickets to go see Wicked on Broadway. I wanted to go on Wednesday which was my actual birthday, so that meant my Mom had to meet me after work. She made it into the city all by herself. Once I told her to take the only train that had a number on it, she was good to go. We had a non-fancy dinner of Chinese food and went to the show. It was AMAZING!

The next weekend we made it to Bear Mountain for the Oktoberfest. There is a cruise up the harbor that takes you to the mountain so I thought it would be fun for me and Mom to do. Who new it would turn into a booze cruise full of 20 somethings getting wasted at 9 in the morning. Damn I'm old. The festivities were OK. We waited way to long in lines. I most likely won't do it again, but the drunk kids made for good entertaining on the cruise back.

Mom was tipsy off of one beer, so I had to cut her off!

Our final adventure was to the Bronx Zoo. It is so crazy how such a beautiful zoo is smack dab in the middle of the Bronx. You literally could see the expressway from the monorail.

I don't think my first trip to The Bronx Zoo would of been the same without my mother. As we visit with the deer she says, "Why do some of them not have antlers? They must of fallen off" "Um Mom those would be the female deers. You know doe a deer a female deer."

The Tiger Cubs were putting on a show playing for us. I look over and there is my Mom telling this lady all about the cubs how there are 2 and the momma tiger is over on the left. She seriously is giving this woman the play by play tour. I walk over and see the woman has on a red vest and a Bronx Zoo badge. I told my mom we needed to move on to the next animal and she needed to stop telling the Zoo Employee about her job. Yup, my mother was telling the animal expert all about the tigers she probably trains. Gotta love it. The lady was really nice to have pretended to be interested.

Me: Oh my God look at the white Giraffe.

Mom: Shannon quick take a picture.

Me: I have never seen anything like that.

Mom: I think its dead its not moving.

Me: We are so dumb, it is a wooden Giraffe.

Enough said!

And yes even The Bronx Zoo had the rarely seen bump it! She was probably from Jersey. REPRESENT!