AMAZING!

James and I have just got back from Borders as I needed to replenish the book supplies in order to survive the next few days and the long flight home (Hooray!).

We went to get a coffee to go and while we were waiting the guy behind the counter said, 'Hey Sue!'
As he has only served me once and some days ago at that, I thought this was pretty amazing really. The place is always heaving and I can't imagine how anyone could possibly be remembered. You do have to give your name so they can match drinks to customers, but with the numbers that pass through each day I'm sure the names just become a blur.

Admittedly, he had helped me to sort out some change on that previous occasion, telling me that the pennies were the 'little brown buddies!' but even so, I still thought it was incredible that he remembered my name.

I confess that the US coins are a little confusing and I tend to use notes or my card in the shops. As a result I had a purse full of change which Charles kindly took off my hands, counting out about ten dollars!

We haven't done anything at all today (Borders is right next to Maddison Square Garden and Penn Station so literally across the road from our hotel). Charles has finally sorted out the mix up with the room charges and has managed to get a free breakfast for us all and one night's accommodation free of charge and have dropped the daily rate in an attempt to mollify him. James and I are quite happily lounging around and reading and this is great so long as Charles isn't on the internet scouring it for any NUFC news and then proceeding to read it aloud when he does. I thought James was going to throw his book at him when he insisted on reading an article about Greggs Geordie pasties to us.

However, the article WAS quite interesting in a sort of surreal way. Apparently Greggs were overwhelmed by seeing so many Toon fans wearing their bags on their heads at the Plymouth match that they have had special 'Congratulations Toon' bags printed for tomorrow's game!