trip prep etc

Gregg and other comments. thanks tons. we might just gamble it and try a taxi. :)
I've been printing all the suggestions out. G, can you think of what chocolate candy store you might have been thinking of, the papabubble place in Soho I found to have only sugar candy etc.. although also very cool. thanks. I also look forward to going to the park with all the Christmas crafts and homemade goods this weekend. I'm going to try and take the sisses to the New Museum in Soho also just for the fun of the Experience exhibit. but we're also going to go through some of the Moma. depends on how much they want to shop or not, which I don't think they'll be trying to overshop. we'll see though.... ha.
today went so very well, mostly because the angry newcomer, the brother that didnt' get to go home, was absent today. anyway, just love teaching the kids when everyone is cooperating.. also my night class went well tonight, it was a short class since they were turning in papers, and we only have one class left. they were signing up to bring food and stuff to class, and after class I remembered that oops... I don't think we're supposed to have food parties in the rooms. dang it I didn't even think about it. ugh. but I do so love this particular class, it'll be fun to hang with 'em. :) they've all worked so hard and such so..... I received an invitation from a friend of mine in town who is a lesbian and is "married" as far you can be in OK to a really nice girl. anyway they invited me to their big Christmas party the 17th, and the invitation is to a lot of different people including other people we went to highschool with. so I'm pretty excited to get to visit with some new people, old friends, and maybe even some gay guys in the mix. we shall see but I'm definitely going. I had a bible verse on my social net work status today from Is 55:6-8 and she commented today about where I was going to church nowadays. I told her I was still going to my folk's church (the same one we went to as kids when we were all in youth group together, seriously we were great friends back in 9-12 grade). I also told her I'd be more than willing to visit any church here in OKC just let me know. so it will be fun to see if I get to go check out some churches with her or not sometime. ahhh.. I love my friend A. I also love that she's consdering a church because for a while there she was pretty much just part of the gay party every weekend crowd that was annoying me, I mean people out of college who are still doing the same partying and using year after year, come on, grow up! she has now so beautifully and is really happy with her gf. anyway......
I need to get some more thinks in little stacks in prep for packing up for the trip. cheers and thanks again for the suggestions of things to see in NYC. I subscribed to the NYC TIME OUT magazine a few weeks ago, but of course I won't get anything in the mail for 4-6 weeks. wah wah....