5 Days of GIVEAWAY:: DAY 4 - Plus, how I became a Protester!

Welcome to day 4 of 5 Days of Giveaway! 

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11 FQs AND Emmaline Bags Store Credit!

READ THIS! Before I get on to the contest, you are going to have to endure a little story about adventure and spontaneity while on holidays. As some of you know, I traveled to NYC with 5 friend from here in Alberta, and met up with 2 friends from Ontario and one from NZ.  We had a blast!

This story is about a day I planned to go with Natalie and Jo from Ontario and Deb from NZ to the Museum of Natural History.  It was going to be a nice quiet afternoon looking at previously alive things. They are always quiet and relaxing, aren't they? (Unless you are in the movie, Night at Museum.) This is a picture I took of the museum while driving by on the top of the double-decker bus the day before, whilst wearing my herringbone wool wrap and handmade flower pin that you read about in yesterday's post.  Isn't it lovely and relatively quiet looking?

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On our way to the Museum, the subway was PACKED, just like in the movies!!! It was only my second time on it, so I just thought it was normal. Very NY. When at the Columbus Circle stop, right at the start of Central Park, we heard the announcement, "for those of you going to the rally, this is your stop. Next stop Harlem - 125 street".   ACK! Harlem?  We were supposed to get off at the Museum station.  Everyone was getting off! The four of us ran for the exit and one of us muttered, something about maybe it was an express train? But oh well, we could go up and walk to the Museum. And a rally? I thought, " a rally, how cute!"

Columbus Circle, Manhattan. 

A couple of weeks ago I had never been in a New York subway train, and a couple of weeks ago I had never been in a protest. Now I can say that I not only rode the subway to the Museum of Natural History in NYC, but also came up from the below the street into the largest protest in the world, the protest for climate change with 310,000 people! OOPS! That was unexpected, but rather exciting.

Moral of the will be given in the middle of the story: Always consult current events if you don't want to end up on the same street as 310,000 people, and if you do end up on the street with 310,000 people - enjoy the atmosphere because you won't be going anywhere fast.

We ended up detouring through Central Park for a while, as walking against the crowd was not working. We decided a parallel route might work.

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I got to see parts of the park that I didn't know I would see that day. It's 843 acres, you know.

We eventually made our way to the steps of the museum.

Somehow we were all wearing protest buttons and carrying stickers and papers that we never started with. Security told us we had to put them in our bags though because protesters were not allowed in the museum.  Protesters? It was peaceful!! I did pocket the button and stickers and I am very happy I did, because my daughter loved receiving them when I got home. I had hoped to pick up a poster for her of the Statue of Liberty holding a wind mill turbine instead of a torch, but sadly when we came out much, much later - they were all gone.

At the time, we did not know there were 310,000 people, but we could tell there were a few thousand. It wasn't until we were in the museum basement at lunch that we googled the NBC news and found out. The museum was amazing and I feel very lucky to have gotten to see it. We kind of raced through, but I saw some elephants and plenty of awesome bones.

I was going to show you my pictures from B&J Fabrics on Fashion Ave.. but I think I've gone on long enough, so I will share those with you tomorrow.

ON to the Giveaway! 

(Sorry, but if I am going to try to give you free things, you must endure my stories! )

Thursday Oct 2, 2014 - Giveaway!! 

11 FQ's Waterfront Park by Violet Craft, 

AND $15 Store credit from my shop Emmaline Bags! 

Also, use the discount code: 5000FANS
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You can still enter in the previous contests from this week, they are right here on my blog! Make sure you stop in tomorrow for the LAST DAY and a great prize from the Online Fabric Store!!

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