Wednesday April 27 2011- Day 114

Today I'm leaving for NY for the NFL Draft. I'm glad I'm finished chemo and surgery so I can travel even if it means putting off radiation for a week. I wish my hair had grown back in time but oh well. My roommate and I finish throwing things in our bags and then we take ride our rental car to the subway station and catch the subway to Union Station where we'll catch a bus to NY. We arrive around 11 am and my roommate realizes he left the business account credit card at home..UGH! We eat some food and wait for our friends that are traveling with us to arrive. My roommate plans to rush to the bank to withdraw the cash but he looks up the bank and realizes that there are branches in New York so we'll wait until we arrive to worry about the money for the hotel. We walk to the bus depot and wait in line for the bus to NY. Our friends arrive just behind us and we all wait as the bus arrives late. We all hop on the top level of the doubledecker bus and head to the very back. We all sit together and my roommate and his friend try to find the wifi connection on the bus. My laptop is locked up below so I play with my iPod touch but cant find the signal. The 2 of them get their iPads connected and work online for awhile. About an hour into the trip I'm starting to get sleepy so we all stretch out and fall asleep in our spots. I doze off and on wake up in Delaware, fall back to sleep, wake up outside of NJ. I stay awake the rest of the way there. My roommate and I decide to wire the money to me so I can go pick it up as opposed to try to locate a bank and such. We get into Manhattan and after trying to flag down a cab, call the hotel who tells us to catch the subway to Woodside-61st Street Station in Queens. It ends up being a long ride changing trains carrying luggage and chairs. We arrive and call the hotel who sends us an airport shuttle. We arrive to our hotel which is unfortunately situated across the street from a cemetary. Explains why the room was so cheap for a suite. We check-in and get to our rooms. I am glad to have a room to myself which includes a bed and a pull-out couch. Unfortunately the view out my window is of the cemetary so I keep my shades drawn. We get settled and decide to head back into the city. We are all tired so we cant imagine catching the subway again so we catch a cab with all of our chairs so we can go to the draft straight after. We arrive at what we think is early and discover a long line has already formed out front of Radio City Music Hall so we decide to go ahead and stand in line. I am dressed in Denver Broncos gear from head to foot so as I walk pass the line of NY fans I get a loud chorus of boos and hisses and jeers. I laugh and pull my hood on so they can see the Broncos logo on the side. We get to the back of the line and wait. As we wait we realize we are all hungry so 4 of us decide to walk to find food while my roommate waits in line. We find a pizza parlor a block over and decide to order a pizza and some sodas. The place is an authentic italian restaurant so they handmake our pizza. While I'm waiting my friends walk off and leave me. Jermaine comes back with his girlfriend Rah now wearing a jacket since it has now gotten cold. His cousin returns after taking a call. By now the pizza is ready. My roommate calls to tell us we lost our place in line but we need to hurry back. We grab the pizza and our sodas and run back to the line. We have to get in the back of the line and as we run in the barrier they close it behind us. We will be the last ones in our section. We pull out our chairs and sit down and eat pizza. Miguel is up front somewhere but he's crowded in and cant sit down and doesnt want pizza. We stay in our area listening to the NY fans boo people as they come through in any jersey other than Jets or Giants. After an hour or so of waiting they move the barricade and move us up further. An hour after that the line moves through and we move into the Hall to get our armbands. I'm glad we're moving because it has gotten breezy and much colder. We all get our armbands and decide to catch a cab back to the hotel. We have the number for our gypsy cab driver who arrives 20 mins later and takes us back to our hotel. It is late when we get back and we are all tired so we each go to our separate hotel rooms and go to sleep. I have been texting him all afternoon so he knows where I am and what's going on. I know he's most concerned that I'm sleeping alone so I make sure to take a pic of my room so he can see I'm there alone. After a few more text and talking to my roommate about breakfast in the morning I fall asleep.