A Thank you to the NYPD

I left the apartment this morning with the intention of seeing what this ticker tape parade was all about and to vote. I planned everything out and decided to catch the start of the parade from Battery Pl and Broadway and the head up to Trinity Place to vote. By the time I left my apartment building and saw the madness, I scrapped those plans and decided to catch a bit of the action from Rector Street. It was really really crowded, but I got a good view of the event. People were emptying their paper shredders from the top floors of the office buildings and there was lots of cheering and screaming and intoxication going on (yeah, did I mention the morning part?) I saw the coach and a few players go by on parade vehicles. It was controlled chaos, if that's possible. I enjoyed the bands, parade and flying paper for a few minutes and decided to up to Trinity Place.


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I walked north a few blocks to the polling place and went in and voted. When I came out, I was caught unaware in massive crowd headed north. I followed along and figured I would be able to return south after a few minutes. The area was barricaded and surrounded by police and they were shuffling everyone north and stopping anyone going in any other direction. After about 20 minutes of following the crowd, I started having contractions. Uh oh. I barely had room to walk, and stopping might have been dangerous. I finally pushed my way through the crowd to the edge where I found a police officer. He took one look at me and opened the barricades. I calmly explained my situation..."I need to walk home...I live south of here and I'm having contractions..." He and the other officers sort of freaked out and were like "What hospital are you going to???" and I explained that I didn't need to go to the hospital, I just needed to get home. They agreed to escort me through the barricaded area and I made it home. I was quite happy to get home and then of course realized that I actually had to go all the way back uptown for a scheduled doctor's appointment. I took the subway and it was blissfully uncrowded. My appointment was pretty standard. Nothing new to report. I am still having contractions, but I am still pregnant, so...stay tuned...