Another year has passed and once again Liz and I were pleased to attend the most anticipated blogger event, Audrey and Vera’s, Getting Gorgeous.
I took a PTO day from work and drove into Astoria, were I meet Liz.
The weather forecast for the day was not a very good one. It was to be a hot, humid and rainy day. I knew that when we got to Manhattan it would be more hot, more humid, and more rainy. 
We always walk from Liz’s home to the train station. The walk from her house to the train is at least a 15-20 minutes, now this depends on how fast you walk, and since we weren’t in a big hurry and it was not raining, we just took a strolling pace. Anyway, it was way to hot and humid to get the heart pumping when we did not need to do so.
When we arrived at the station we began to climb up the stairs to the train platform. The air began to get thicker, and less breathable the higher we climbed. It was surely a “Hot town summer in the city.” I surely did feel the back of my neck get ‘Dirty and gritty”… but then the train pulled into the station and we hopped into the air conditioned train. 
The train ride from Astoria to Manhattan is around 20 minutes,( Why I drive to Astoria and train it from there). If I took public transportation from Long Island it would take me 1 hour and 30 minutes to get into Manhattan. UGH!
Once we arrived we walked up from beneath the ground to the busy streets of Manhattan and then walked 5 blocks to the event.
Love to walk. Walking and the city it just what you do.
Now this event was not all about pleasure we also went to assist the event planners, Vera and Audrey. As soon as we got to the event we began organizing all the goody bags that every person, who participated, will go home with. I never saw so many goody bags. I was told there were 400 bags. All holding a gifts from the sponsors and all participants would go home with a goody bag and a smile.
Oh, let me not forget to mention my daughter, who also came to help Vera and Audrey. What a surprise! I had no idea she would be there. Would have been nice to know she was coming since all three of us could have traveled together. However, she had already made plans to meet her friend in the city for dinner so guess we were not invited.
Liz and I always have a good time at Getting Gorgeous events. We mingle, we drop our blog cards, pick up some goodies and get to help bring the event to a happy close.
Yes, Groovinmoms loves Getting Gorgeous… I mean, who doesn’t want to Get Gorgeous?
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