What a day!!

Let me see if I can get it all in and in orders.

Started the morning by going to the cigar store for newspapers. Joey Madura was there and I asked him if he's the cop that's out in the lot next door almost every night all night. He didn't know I lived here and yes, it's him. I told him if I'm ever awake when he's out there, I'll make him tea. He said ok. :)

Then I met Sandy at the Ansonia train station and our adventure began. We took the train to Bridgeport, then got off and onto the next train - to 125th St. (Harlem), NY. Got there fine and got on the next train to Peekskill. And then the strange/funny day started.

We got off at the station -- both needing to use the bathroom. Well we ran into a girl, who we think was really a guy, who told us the station is being remodeled and they didn't even leave it open for bathrooms. We could see the fairgrounds so we went over there. We were probably the first patrons on the site. So we used the bathrooms there and then got food from an amazing food truck. I think it was called Chippy's Wagon (or truck). I had an egg and cheese sandwich with Irish bacon. It was huge and delicious.

The fair itself was very tiny. There were only 10-12 vendors but lots of non-stop music. There was a whole bagpipe and drum band made up of cops in kilts wearing police shirts and carrying guns. It was a little odd but also cool.

We did go there WAY too early because we had to hang out for pretty much 8 hours before Mundy went on stage. And we were following his plight on Facebook. He came in today from Philly by train. Apparently something happened at Penn Station because he called it the Devil's crotch on Facebook and then said the same thing when he got onstage. LOLOLOL!! He said his whole train experience today was horrible.

Anyway he finally got on stage and sang great. Afterward he was signing CDs so of course Sandy bought one. While she was getting it signed I was talking to his roadie -- an older guy. He thought we came a long way from CT and I told him we had gone to Kansas City just to see Mundy. He showed me his hat that said Kansas City -- he was there too setting up for him. Told us that Mundy will be playing that festival again next year and if we go (we will!!) we should go see him at the top of the stage and say hello. Mundy looks at Sandy and saw her name on her jacket. He asked if she was on Facebook and then said Sandy Mendyk??! She said yes and told him we'd been in KC. He said, and I quote, "I didn't see you there but I saw your friends!" ROFLMAO!!! Me and his roadie started laughing and the roadie said yep he saw the friends but not her. Anyway Sandy told him he did see her and took a picture with her. LOL!!

Then we left because we had to be precise to get the right trains and be on time for the last train from Bridgeport to the Valley. That's when OUR Devil's crotch started. LOL!! We got on ok in Peekskill but were told that we were at 125th so we got off and found out we were at Yankee Stadium -- 153rd Street. Then we had a nightmare of a time trying to find the next train to 125th. Finally got that -- they let us go for free -- and coasted into that station in time to barely make the one to Bridgeport. We had to ask all over to the place to find the one to 125th. Got to Bridgeport and went down and under and back and forth a few times -- in minutes because that's all the time we had -- before we finally found the right track and got to it just as the train pulled up.

Now I'm home and relaxing. It was a really great day! Love my adventures with Sandy!