NYC

Posing outside the United Nations, New York City

I took an extended weekend vacation at the beginning of March. The whole idea of getting paid to take a vacation day is still pretty fresh for me - but I think I can get used to it!

There was a destination involved in my mini-vacation: NYC.

I hooked up with an EMS and Fire show while I was there. There were a few interesting things, but it wasn't even close to a highlight of the trip.

Did you know that the Statue of Liberty isn't really as big as it looks in all those postcards?

At Ground Zero, a crazy man who tends to the monuments recited some street poetry about how the official count from 9/11 did not include a lot of people. It had never occured to me - people working illegally and street people were not counted.

This fire station is literally across the street from where the World Trade Centre stood. Their staff was decimated.

The day I was to fly into New York, my flight got cancelled. No matter. My travel companion had travel insurance so we lived it up in downtown Montreal!

Getting "stranded" in Montreal wasn't so bad. Here's the view from the hotel!