Adventures with Mel

My Maralyn Monroe Impersonation

Mel and I with "Blinkie"

"D.J. Slim"

Chris

My sister in law Melanie is all about the adventure. If you want to have fun stick close to Mel cause you'll never forget your experience! We were on the 102 floor of the Empire State Building and I was wishing I had bought the "Empire State Building A Guide to the Views Souvenirs Map" like my wise sister in law Kathy. I kept looking out each window and didn't know what I was looking at. I mentioned this to Mel and she felt the same way. She asked attenedent if it were possible to go back to the souvenir shop (5th floor?) and then come back up. Yeah right like they let you do that. But Mel can get anyone to do anything you know. So she radioed down and got the o.k. Simple right? Well not exactly it. The elevator attendent told us to make sure we say we were Vinny's cousin and that we needed to get back up to the 102 floor. We thought he said to talk to Vinny's cousin. Well we get down to the shop and find the attendent who was radioed with our ok she told us to go back to the shop but make sure not to get in the line to go the rest of the way down. She said they would try to tell us we couldn't go back up but to try to find her. Well once in the shop we found out we couldn't purchase the books there that they were only sold on the 1st floor. So we talked to another attendent who said that if we talked to "D.J. Slim" that he might let us go down and then back up but we had to call him "D.J. Slim" loud enough for him to hear. So that's what Mel did. She called out to him and they both started laughing. Well he gave us the ok and said to talk to Chris on the 1st floor. So we get down there and buy our wonderful maps. We make our way back to Chris who lets us skip the enormous line and sends us back up to the 5th floor. We are welcomed by D.J. Slim and he tells us that the other guys name was "Blinkie". We talk to Blinkie and he tells us that he was the one to nickname everyone. He calls himself Blinkie because he always blinks. He even told us the name of the girl on his floor that we talked to was "Babyface". (It was straight out of a movie.) Blinkie got us up to the observatory and found our original elevator attendent who took us up to the 102 floor. Of course by the time we made it up everyone else was ready to leave (or had already left in Cort's case). We looked around with our newfound maps and enjoyed ourselves. On our way down to the observatory we mentioned to the nice guy that we never found cousin. He laughed at us and said "I told you tell them that you were Vinn'ys cousin." He said I'm Vinny! Who knew? (It was hard to undertand the thick New York accent at times.)