Hiking the grand canyon was lovely. We sang we are climbing Jacob’s ladder while…hiking that portion of the trail. We were around six when we did this.
We visited dad at times Square while he worked on the nye ball drop, and got to see inside the the…command center. Small but neat.
I remember both family reunions, one on each side. One was in the middle of Montana and we drove over grandfather’s foot while using a little kid car thing. It stopped working and we popped the hood to figure out what was wrong like daddy did. The other was on long Island with so many people in a tiny house. Loved it. Warm and cozy.
Speaking of Time Square. I remember one time in Manhattan, like somewhere near 42 st, but maybe not that close. There was like a big toy store, Toys R US maybe? Forgot. They had this weird paper plane thing constructed from I think cardboard paper. Dude threw this paper plane and it kinda “bommeranged”, looped back back to the man and he caught it. I kinda wanted that thing, never got it.
I remember having a toy helicopter thing as a gift. Broke it during first flying attempt. If it were a modern DJI, it would never have crashed, that thing sucked, but I kinda got sad about it.
Also, I was in, well… not Long Island, but I’ve played at the beach in Coney Island. It was a fun beautiful memory. I think every time I was at the beach, I always try to make a model NYC Subway railway with the tunnel things, or it’s an amalgamation combined with a castle, or something… forgot…
I also rode the ferris wheel at Coney Island… Every been there? There was like the ones that move and the non-moving carts. The moving ferris wheel carts were in red or blue or something, the non-moving ones where painted white. The non-moving ones ends up higher at the top, so it was scarier for my fear of heights, but its non-moving so its less scarier in thay regard. My entire body shaked during the ferris wheel ride, so much heights. I remember riding the Q train (or was it the F train?) when we used to explore NYC, that coney island railway segment was layered on top of the F train, like taller than 5 stories of a building, and it was so high, I got scared that the train would fall off. I think they even paused the train when there were storms, perhaps it is possible for those trains to fall off?
Oh yes they had a Toys R Us in times Square. We actually went there that year we visited dad. We all had walky talkies with us from his work so we’re using them. A guy comes up and asks where the bathroom is.
To be fair to the guy, the workers also did have walkies, but a different type. Also they were all wearing that vest toys r us use to wear. But I was a kid, and a short one!
It was also Christmas eve. The place was paaaaaaaaacked.
Speaking of Holidays, I remember during the first Thanksgiving Black Friday, we were at the Bayparkway (Brooklyn) Bestbuy. A whole line of people lined up there. We didn’t have a car, so we basically just walked there, like 30 mins away. We got a cheap tv and some budget laptop, forgot how we got it home, but I assume one of our relatives came by and helped us move it home.
My aunts and uncles who lived around there said people would set up tents there the night before lol. Wait in line felt like 1-2 hours, maybe 3 hours, forgot. That was insane, but you kmow… poverty and people want cheap stuff.
Home would’ve been so much sadder without these stuff. Never had laptop before coming the US, new stuff, the novelty… it’s useful to look up a lot of unanswered questions kid-me had. Like space stuff, planets, looking up stuff was magical.
Like this was 2010s btw. Nowadays I think people just do online shopping.
Hiking the grand canyon was lovely. We sang we are climbing Jacob’s ladder while…hiking that portion of the trail. We were around six when we did this.
We visited dad at times Square while he worked on the nye ball drop, and got to see inside the the…command center. Small but neat.
I remember both family reunions, one on each side. One was in the middle of Montana and we drove over grandfather’s foot while using a little kid car thing. It stopped working and we popped the hood to figure out what was wrong like daddy did. The other was on long Island with so many people in a tiny house. Loved it. Warm and cozy.
Speaking of Time Square. I remember one time in Manhattan, like somewhere near 42 st, but maybe not that close. There was like a big toy store, Toys R US maybe? Forgot. They had this weird paper plane thing constructed from I think cardboard paper. Dude threw this paper plane and it kinda “bommeranged”, looped back back to the man and he caught it. I kinda wanted that thing, never got it.
I remember having a toy helicopter thing as a gift. Broke it during first flying attempt. If it were a modern DJI, it would never have crashed, that thing sucked, but I kinda got sad about it.
Also, I was in, well… not Long Island, but I’ve played at the beach in Coney Island. It was a fun beautiful memory. I think every time I was at the beach, I always try to make a model NYC Subway railway with the tunnel things, or it’s an amalgamation combined with a castle, or something… forgot…
I also rode the ferris wheel at Coney Island… Every been there? There was like the ones that move and the non-moving carts. The moving ferris wheel carts were in red or blue or something, the non-moving ones where painted white. The non-moving ones ends up higher at the top, so it was scarier for my fear of heights, but its non-moving so its less scarier in thay regard. My entire body shaked during the ferris wheel ride, so much heights. I remember riding the Q train (or was it the F train?) when we used to explore NYC, that coney island railway segment was layered on top of the F train, like taller than 5 stories of a building, and it was so high, I got scared that the train would fall off. I think they even paused the train when there were storms, perhaps it is possible for those trains to fall off?
Oh yes they had a Toys R Us in times Square. We actually went there that year we visited dad. We all had walky talkies with us from his work so we’re using them. A guy comes up and asks where the bathroom is.
“No idea?”
“But you work here!”
“No I don’t? I’m a kid?”
“Oh. But the walky talky-”
“Oh, no. Family has them”
He grunted and left lmao.
Clearly, they hired kids as unpaid interns xD
To be fair to the guy, the workers also did have walkies, but a different type. Also they were all wearing that vest toys r us use to wear. But I was a kid, and a short one!
It was also Christmas eve. The place was paaaaaaaaacked.
Speaking of Holidays, I remember during the first Thanksgiving Black Friday, we were at the Bayparkway (Brooklyn) Bestbuy. A whole line of people lined up there. We didn’t have a car, so we basically just walked there, like 30 mins away. We got a cheap tv and some budget laptop, forgot how we got it home, but I assume one of our relatives came by and helped us move it home.
My aunts and uncles who lived around there said people would set up tents there the night before lol. Wait in line felt like 1-2 hours, maybe 3 hours, forgot. That was insane, but you kmow… poverty and people want cheap stuff.
Home would’ve been so much sadder without these stuff. Never had laptop before coming the US, new stuff, the novelty… it’s useful to look up a lot of unanswered questions kid-me had. Like space stuff, planets, looking up stuff was magical.
Like this was 2010s btw. Nowadays I think people just do online shopping.