We both have some friends that live up in New York, so we thought it would be fun to take a day and try to see them and a show on Broadway. Micah's fraternity brother Geoff and his wife Hallie gave us a great tour of the city. We saw a lot, and walked a lot :) Here are some pictures from our 36 hour trip to New York.
My two favorite shows right now...Phantom will always be number one for me though!
Our hotel was right here on Times Square
The day we were there, the
Five Boro Bike Tour was going on. It was crazy to see all those bikers there! Thank goodness Micah did not know about it before hand, otherwise I'm sure he would have wanted to participate, and there would have been our only day in NY! haha :)
We took the better part of the morning walking Central Park-in the rain...But it was still gorgeous and we really enjoyed it.
The fountain
Turtle Pond was so cute...I want to get the boys a turtle now! There were so may little ones, but with the rain it was hard to get good pictures.
I took these pictures of the animals for Aiden. I think this was the Tavern on the Green...
The Gate
Good Ol' Trump Tower
The Biggest Toys R Us I've ever seen...thank goodness we did NOT have the boys with us ;)
Rockefeller Center
We had a mini lunch at Dean and DeLuca's before getting ready for Wicked!!
It was AWESOME! I totally recommend it, even if you haven't read the book. This was Geoff and Hallie's 3rd time seeing it-and luckily for us they said we got a great production :)
After the show we went to have dinner with my girlfriend Samantha and her fiance Terry. Sam and I were in the same class during our semester in Washington. She was one of my bridesmaids and she brought Terry to the wedding. Now they are getting married July 2nd! It was so wonderful to see the two of them again, and we are so happy they are getting married soon :)
Great friends, great food, great evening :)
Hallie, Geoff, Micah, and I headed out for some drinks afterwords.
Arc de Triomphe in Washington Square Park where we walked a little more, finding a good dessert shop still open for cannolis
Doing some quick shopping for the boys before we take off...stopped by this cool NBC Peacock full of M&M's! So wanted to eat them all ;)
Passed by the Phantom theatre with a sense of longing and sadness that I didn't get to see it on Broadway yet.
One Day...before I'm Passed the Point of No Return
All in all I think we did a lot and had a fabulous time with our friends. Anyone wanting to go to New York, call up Geoff and Hallie!!
I guess Aiden was pretty excited to ride a bus from the airport.
In the rental car ready to see Great Grandma Betty and Great Grandpa Arkie!
Devin's first forward facing car seat ride. I guess he was too big for the infant seat, so they had to get a regular one. When they got back from their trip, Devin had his 9 month appointment and the doctor said it was fine to switch him over permanently. So now he's forward facing next to Aiden in our cars too-and LOVING it ;)
Aiden ready for bed. The Bears bear is his "Daddy Bear" that has Micah's voice on it from a few years ago. Then in preparation for their trip without us, we made both the boys new bears with both our voices on them, so they can play them whenever they felt like they were missing us. I think it worked well for everyone. I guess Aiden played his over and over and over again and had it memorized in no time. And he kept exclaiming "That's my Dad! That's my Mom!". Too cute :)
chilling out
My goobotz :)
Grandpa Arkie gave Aiden his old base ball mit and a hat...how cool!
Give me more food!!
Aiden hard at "work" with Grandpa
Pictures by the "Biggest cactus of them all!"
Grandpa Arkie and Devin
Hanging out at the park
Silly Kiki
and Grandpa
Play time!
This picture made me nervous...;) What a good sport!
Life is good when it's on a slide
So sweet
Aiden was excited that this tank had a Kangaroo and a cactus on it!
Just don't touch the prickers!
