Out and about in NYC again. Lately it seems that I have been out here a lot, for all sorts of random reasons. Right now we are waiting for our food in Hudson Place restaurant on 3rd and 36th St. Nice little place so far but as I said, no food yet so I can’t really give you anymore info on it.

Currently just hanging out in my hotel room with the hotels free wifi which is awesome. I am finally getting a chance to post the first of at least two posts. I took a good 60 pictures today

Sunday I went to one of the best events in my life. Waterfest 15. North Americas largest gathering of VW’s and Audi’s. With this post, I will be going over everything I did along with the pictures that I took. I didn’t take as many as I thought I would because of the sheer size of the event and the fact that I did not have an SLR.

I left my house at about 6am and immediately went to search for a car wash that is open that early. Well turns out there isn’t any, well, that I know of. I tried Vets Car Wash down the road from me. It wasn’t so instead of taking the LIE, I ended up taking 27. I was going to get off at Robert Mosses Causeway and take Southern PKW to the Belt but I completely forgot about it so I said whatever. Remember, it is 6:20am. I started to continue to take 27 all the way to the Belt PKW. At that point I really wished I got off at RM since I would have missed all the traffic lights, even though since it was early I barely hit any. Finally get to the Belt towards Verrazano-Narrows Br into Staten Island. I didn’t realize that the bridge went up to $11 a car. Took 440 south to Outer Br and than onto Rt 9 south. When I got to the track, I got completely confused at where I was going. Took me a good 10 minuets just to get to the huge exhibition parking lot I was parking in.

Finally, I got there and started to get overwhelmed with Audi’s and VW’s. One after another they where pulling in. From full stock to completely rebuilt cars. It was just amazing. Thing was that I got there very very early so I needed to wait to actually get into the grounds with all the vendors and such. I had to take a quick look around the parking lot just to see what was around. Here are some pictures. Most of these where later in the day since there where a lot more.

Finally It turns 9am and a flood of people made it into the vendor area. Here is what I saw though it.

The flapjack challenge is a huge pancake the size of a turkey platter. Actually it overhangs the edge in some places. Biggs was of course the one who wanted to try it. I have all the pictures from that event taken from Krass’s Blackberry. The rules are simple.

1. You have within an hour to finish it.
2. When it goes down, it must stay down.
3. No one else can help you.

If he beat it, he would have gotten a shirt what says “I ate it” on it, but Biggs did not get it. The pancake beat him. First time I have ever seen Biggs not be able to eat all of something.

Well here are the pictures to enjoy. I will be making more posts about the trip soon enough.

This weekend I am going on another adventure to visit my friend Krass up at Clarkson in Potsdam NY. I had my other two friends Biggs and Diana (Krass’s girlfriend) tag along with me this time. Last adventure was just me and Biggs but that’s a whole other story. I’ll tell that at some point.

So to start, Clarkson is just about 400 miles exact from where I live on Long Island to get there. I had to pick Diana up from Iona College in New Rochelle at 2pm when I had a class at 11:40 to 1:20. I ended up missing that class and leaving early. Of coarse as usual, Biggs was not ready at all. He didn’t even have his cell phone on him all morning when I was trying to contact him to tell him what time to. Besides that, I got lucky with finding him. I just sort of waited outside waiting for him for like 10 and than he just pulled up. He than has to go get ready and than pick up a car charger from best buy using our friend, 40, and his discount. I wish i worked at best buy just for the dam discount.

So we get on the road, and everything was smooth sailing till we hit the Throngs Neck Bridge. There was road work on it (nothing unusual) and they closed one lane out of three when there should be four. I love my ez-pass though. It makes my life so easy. We make it to Iona and pick up Diana and get going. Everything was nice and fasted pasted till we hit a huge amount of traffic when i-287 west merged with i-87 north right before Tappan Zee Bridge. That was fun. Than we stopped at the first rest stop at Sloatsburg, ate, and left. Simple as that. This gets better.

When we hit Albany, the crazy random exit to enter the same road again worked out just fine. Usually messes me up every time. That had some congestion but at exit 14, it just stopped. There was a huge accident what shut down two of the three lanes and there was 6pm traffic. I was just about to walk out. After that whole issue, i made it to the correct exit and the first few turns till the one road. I sign did not seem right but I took what I saw and went with it. Turns out we went the complete wrong direction and went something like 40 miles parallel to where the school was and winded up in some random town I can’t even spell. Something like Speculator. Well we backtracked like 40 miles more and still had like 100 miles left to get there and it was 9pm in the mountains. Very fun indeed.

I think we finally made it when it was 12:30 or something and when we got here, Krass was getting or looking like he was getting raped his friend Brian.

Well that’s the story so far. I have more to post like from today but I didn’t get the pictures yet. Trust me, its funny stuff.

Later.