Mouse stretches as she is slowly wakeing-up. She looks towards the window in the bedroom she slept in last night. She enjoyed the Broadway show she went and saw last night. She just lay there and stares up at the ceiling. She was trying to motivate herself to get out of bed. She lays there for a few more minutes, before getting up and slipping her house robe on.

She walks into the kitchen and looks through the cabinets. She wanted to see what breakfast items her uncle had the place stock with. She spotted some of her favorites from home and some American coffee as well.

She takes one of the K cups of dark roast and put it in the coffee brewer. It was a good thing she knew how to operate one of these machines. While the coffee brews, she looks inside the refrigerator and takes out everything she needed to make an American breakfast.

She starts cooking breakfast, while she sips her coffee. It was a good thing her mother made her learn how to cook. The first time she cooked something to eat, she smoked the kitchen up. Her mother made her clean the kitchen up afterward as punishment.

Once her breakfast was ready, Mouse sits down and turn the television on. She enjoyed watching the news when she had time to eat breakfast. She couldn’t believe some of the things going on in America currently.

Mouse looks at her cellphone to see what her agenda was for today. She wanted to visit Ellis Island and a few more museums. She was thinking about going to Atlantic City and doing some gambling while she was on vacation.

Mouse finishes her breakfast and cleans the kitchen up, before heading to the bedroom. She strips out of her nightclothes and steps into the bathroom and takes a nice relaxing shower. She spends some time in the shower before the water starts getting cold.

Once she was done with her shower and getting dress. She decided to go to Ellis Island and visit some more museums as well. She grabs her purse and key to the apartment and heads down to take a cab. She’ll drive the Charger when she goes to Atlantic City tomorrow.

Mouse manages to flag down a cab. The driver was an overweight bloke with a bald spot in the middle of his black hair.

“Where to, ma’am?” Steve had spotted a cute young woman with emo style coloring standing in front of a high-class apartment building.

“Ellis Island please.” Mouse looks at the interior of the cab and notices it wasn’t as well maintained like the ones in England.

“Ellis Island.” Steve presses the meter and starts driving towards the place.

He noticed that the young lady had a British accent in her speech. He looks at her in the rearview mirror “so, what part of England are you from?”

“What makes you say, I’m from England?” Mouse had a smirk on her face.

“Your accent. You have a British accent.” Steve has heard a few different accents during his years as a taxi driver.

“I’m from London. Since you know a little about me, what part of the city are you from?”

“Queens, New York. Born and raised.”

“Which community Belle Harbor or Breezy Point?” Mouse did a little research on New York and the different cultures.

“Breezy Point.”

“So, that would make you Irish-American.” Mouse looks at Steve in the rear-mirror.

“I have some Irish in me. However, I’m mostly German. My father was third-generation German.”

“The Germans are nice people.” Mouse remembered going to visit a friend of her mother’s in Germany.

Steve manages to deliver Mouse to Ellis Island. He figures, depending on how long she was going to be, he could wait around for her.

“If you want, I could wait around for you.” Steve turns to look at Mouse.

“How much to hire you for the rest of the day?” Mouse figures it might be a good idea.

“How does two hundred- and fifty-dollars sound to you?” Steve figures that would cover what he would lose waiting on her.

“It’s a little steep, but it would be nice not to have to wait on someone. Do you take credit cards?” Mouse was about to pull her card out.

“Yes ma’am.” Steve picks up the card reader and hands it to Mouse.

Mouse puts her card into the chip reader and follows the directions on the screen. After she is finished, she puts her card away.

“Here you go, I shouldn’t be too long.” Mouse hands the reader back to Steve.

“Okay, I’ll be right here waiting on you.” Steve watches as Mouse leaves, before pulling his Fire Kindle out to read.

Mouse goes and enjoys herself. She stands in line to go inside the statue. She pulls her camera out and takes lots of pictures of the island and from the Statue. She spends several hours or more at Ellis island. Afterward, she heads back to where Steve was parked.

She notices Steve was reading something when she gets back to the cab. She gets in and makes herself comfortable.

“Sorry, for keeping you waiting so long, Steve.”

“You’re fine. It gave me time to catch up on a murder mystery I’ve been wanting to read. So, where to now?” Steve turns to look at Mouse.

“How about I treat you to some lunch?” Mouse had a smile on her face.

“Sounds like a plan. If you trust my judgment, I know the perfect place.”

“I trust you.” Mouse sits back and lets Steve surprise her.

Steve starts the cab and heads for one of his favorite pubs. He figures with her being British, she might like a nice pub lunch. The place he goes to wasn’t too far from where they were.

“Here you go. I think you’ll like this place.” Steve finds a nice parking spot and escorts Mouse into the pub.

The pub they stopped at had a unique collection of bar food. Mouse noticed that some of them matched what the pubs in London served. She
chooses something that was more American. She looks at Steve “choose whatever you would like. It’s on me.”

“Thanks.” Steve spots his normal.

“Have you decided what you would like to order?” Emilly had come over to see what her customers wanted.

“I’ll have your beer batter fish and chips, with a sweet iced tea, please.” Mouse closes her menu.

Emilly looks at Steve “I’ll have your bangers and mash.”

Emilly writes the order down “what would you like to drink?”

“A sweet iced tea would be nice.” Steve figures he would be safe.

He would like a Guinness, but he was driving. He looks at Mouse “so, how long are you going to be in America?”

“For a week or two. I still haven’t decided yet.” Mouse knew she could only stay for the time she put in for.

“Are you here just for pleasure?” Steve was curious about Mouse.

“I’m visiting my family and enjoying some downtime.” Mouse didn’t mind telling Steve a little about herself.

After a while, their waitress comes back with their drinks and later with their food. They enjoy the food, making small talk as they ate. Mouse does order dessert for them.

After they pay and leave a hefty tip for their waitress. Steve takes Mouse to the museum she wanted to visit. He does join her inside, instead of sitting out in his cab. He was never the artistry type but enjoys what they were looking at.

“Well, I have had fun today, Steve. Thanks for being my driver.” Mouse watches as Steve drops her off in front of the apartment building.

“You’re welcome and thank you for everything as well. I had fun with you today.” Steve loved everything they did and the food they had.

“You’re welcome. See you later.” Mouse gets out and head inside the building and up to her apartment.