Why my nano count has stalled.... I was too busy getting inspiration?

Got back from New York early yesterday - and instead of getting down to do some heavy duty make up writing, I spent the entire afternoon on the couch, intermittently sleeping, watching the Vikings game, snacking, and well.... definitely NOT writing for my NANO project.

No wonder I needed the sleep! We were in Manhattan a total of 44 hours, which meant that we had to have the "I'll sleep when I"m past the Newark airport" attitude.

Here's what we did in the those few precious hours, and whil we did sleep in the wee hours of the morning, I'm getting too old to do that for too many days in a row!

• Walked through Times square on way to have...
• Lunch and champagne at the Algonquin Hotel where the New Yorker was highly influenced by Dorothy Parker and yes, we saw the Round Table.
• Top of the Rock - Up top at the Rockefeller Center where they clearly took lessons from the Disney people in "how to squeeze every penny out of your guests in the shortest time period possible"
• Rockefeller center ice rink and holiday tree - skating yes... tree was there but surrounded by heavy duty scaffolding with many guys putting lights on the tree. Should look cool once the scffolding comes down!
• Walked through part of Central park with Hurrican Ida winds blowing.... damn near knocked us over.
• Took a break at Tavern on the Green for a cocktail... for those of you you who used to work at the same company as I do, you'll know that the "concept" of our course business was started there.
• continued wlaking and went through Natural History Museum and Hayden Planterium... very cool bunch of dead stuff.
• cab back to hotel, where we freshened up for Dinner at:
• Chez Josephine, an awesome restuarant in Theatre District - the whole place is an homage to Jospehine Baker... great food and the pianist could belt out those show tunes better than anyone I've ever met.
• tried to get in at Birdland, but they were sold out. Bummer. Settled for some other little bar where the trio ended up to be a two-o. Short visit..... wandered back to hotel, slept until I got out of the warm bed and went to get...
• Bagels and coffee from the Bagel Bar and was a wonderful wife and brought them back for my husband who was still sleeping...
• Walked down 6th Street to Madison Square Garden in search of a copy of NY Times... never found one until we got to the Newark airport the next day. Wierd
• Took a cab over the United Nations building. No tours available that day, but man, it was like stepping into a time capsule. I don't think anything has changed since North by Northwest was filmed.
• Walked back to Grand Central Station. Lunch was Hotdog from a street vendor, and no I didn't have any ketchup on it.
• Cabbed back to hotel and got ready to head down to West Village for merriment and music
• Went to Garage on Bleecker - too early for first show
• Came across a bunch of Puppy Parlors on Christopher street - doggies in the window type of place - one had a whole litter of Frech Bulldogs.... wiggle wiggle whiggle
• Scott bought his Black Wool winter Jazzman hat from a street vendor - a pork pie hat..
• Stopped at Greenwich Village Bistro for another drink, nice locally owned place, funny owner talking about the "old village",.... we agreed with her.
• Strolled down to Chez Jacqueline for tasty Frenchy dinner (in honor of the Frenchie bulldogs..) oohh la la.
• Went to Blue Note - one of THE jazz clubs to visit... everyone who is anyone has played there. And wow, do they pack in the patrons... damn fire code...
• Found Le Poisson Rouge after many attempts... we felt a little, er old to be there... Missed the first show and didn't want to hang out in the disco bar until the next... yes, we are old.
• cabbed back to Hotel, and stopped by BB King's club for a little more live music, and came across some drunk Canadian ladies who loved to dance and an english gentleman that lost his wife in the bar.
• Wandered abck to the hotel, stopped and got a couple of slices of pizza... crashed until wake up call for departure to Newark Airport.

Fabulous short vacation! Have too many blisters, still sleep deprived, and way behind on Nano... but I feel a writing binge coming my way.... maybe this afternoon!