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May1st

We left Pisa and then took a connection flight from Paris to NY JFK.I was sitting on the last raw of the aircraft, I got my vegan Indian foor as per request, and it was delicious! I was sitting next to this scared-to-fly Swedish guy and we started drinking wine hahaha .Hey I didn't remember Air France was so nice, last time I used it I thought I was just expensive and the service 

                                Nice view from the plane over the sky at sundown

sucked, but this time I had a perfect service.And the wine drinking kept on for hours hahaha...I wasn't even able to sleep, I just watched some travel-reports on  a travel channel, they showed Moorea in French Polinesia and I was like "I wish I was flying to Papeete instead of NYC!" ihihih

Ok After the worst landing of my life( at first I guessed the pilot had to be drunk, then next day I realised it was very windy and some storms had crashed on North Carolina..that was the reason for the superstrong wind!).

We finally got outside the airport and a limousine was waiting for us.

   I felt kind of embarassed, nothing similar had ever happened to me, you know, but I was not  as excited as the other ones, maybe cos I'm used to seeing such big cars, and I didn'y feel like WOWWW to sit on it. Well, you see 

Me at the very back of the limousine looking for a drink, but nothing but beers!

everybody was like "yeahhhh, this fucking rocks, let's have gin-tonics, champange and party on !"...well I had nothing then, I was too tired and still a bit too drunk cos of the wine!

And I was starving ..anyways, finally we arrived in Manhattan, actually we were staying at the best hotel in southern Manhattan, a very nice suite room (www.embassysuites.com)in Tribeca area, about 150 m from Ground Zero.. The Family, Hotel

The first thing I did from the  hotel was having a look at the Ground Zero area, God Thanks cousin Lewis decided to book our rooms with a view on the river and  Hoboken(new Jersey), it would have been too sad to wake up every morning and face Ground Zero..I was shocked to be able to sleep in such a room, big living room, very clean bathroom and hot tub, superhuge kingsize bed, illimited access to fridge and  phone calls... I felt like a V.I.P.! hahaha           View of the inside of the hotel..WOW!

We then put our stuff in the room and we went to cousin Lewis' restaurant in 51 Avenue B (3rd &4th) (www.maxrestaurantny.com) to have something to eat. This side of New York still a couple of years ago used to be very dangerous even at day time, then Rudolph Giuliani made it safe, even if some junkies might be around at night in some shady streets.. now this side has been undergoing a process of gentrification and old buildings are becoming trendy and a lot of alternative people hang around here.

At Max's in Lower East Side

The food was delicious, I had grilled and raw veggies, good bread and supergood wine.We all were drinking till about 2am and talking about what we have been doing recently and about Lewis' coming weddings.

Lindita, his wife-to-be seems to be very nice,it's funny cos some guys in the restaurant thought we were sisters hahahah.Then we were driving back downtown, it was funny cos we were 4 in the back of Lewis' Golf and if police stopped us they would have given Lewis some points on his driving license.We then went straight to bed, we were exhausted, it was 8am Italian time then!                 

                                                Lindita,Lewis'                                                                            soon-wife-to-be:)

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