We left on Saturday, August 23rd EARLY in the morning. We had 3 celebrity sightings just at the airport. The 1st sighting was John C. McGinley...he plays Dr. Cox from Scrubs. The 2nd sighting was Kevin Bacon he was on our plane. The 3rd was Kyra Sedgwick...she plays the lead actress on The Closer. She is also Kevin Bacon's wife.
Saturday when we arrived in New York the taxi cab rides began...I had major anxiety these people drive HORRIBLE! No one seems to know how to drive and they say CA drivers are bad haha. We checked into the hotel and then went to dinner at an Italian restaurant. After that we walked around Time Square.
Sunday we did a lot of walking. Had bruch at a French Bistro. It was very yummy. We also went to see Wicked on Broadway :). It was really good and a lot of fun! After seeing Wicked we went to dinner at Bar Americane it is a restaurant owned by Bobby Flaye. If I weren't pregnant I am sure I would have enjoyed the food ;) Brent and Deb LOVED the food :) The restaurant was beautiful!
Monday we went down to Ground Zero...there wasn't much to see they are trying to rebuild the area around it. We went to the Statue of Liberty. This was such an amazing thing to do. It was one of our favorite things to do there! After the Statue of Liberty we went over to Ellis Island. We walked around after returning from Ellis Island and met up with one of Deb's friends Colleen. While waiting to meet up with Colleen we went to St. Trinity (I think that is the name of the church). It was a beautiful church and we walked through the cemetary. It was neat seeing the really old headstones. We walked down Wall Street. She took us to her apartment and we walked to dinner. We took our first subway back to the hotel that night ;)
Tuesday we did a ton more walking. We went to another church, St. Patricks. It was also very beautiful. We went to the Empire State Building. This was a little disappointing. We stood in line for almost 2 hours and then were only up on the 86th floor for maybe 10 minutes. The view was lovely, but it is most likely more beautiful at night. We also went to Grand Central Station and did a little shopping. After that we went to the hotel to drop off stuff and rest for a few minutes. Then we headed to Yankee Stadium. We went to see Yankees vs. Red Socks. We don't really like either team, but wanted to see a Yankee game since we were in NY. Boston beat the Yanks and boy were the fans upset! It was fun!
Wednesday we headed to the US Open for Tennis! It was so much fun. This is the main reason Brent wanted to go to New York this time of year. It was our favorite thing to do in New York. Brent was very excited as were we all. Deb got some awesome courtside seats!!! The matches were amazing! We were so tired from this I think we only went to dinner and then went to the hotel early...can't remember exactly haha.
Thursday we went to the MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art). It was a beautiful building. There was so much to see that it was a little overwhelming. My favorite art there was Egyptian and Medieval Art. It was amazing :) We did SOOOOO much walking during this day. We walked through FAO Schwartz...then we went to Serendipity 3. I really wanted to eat here ever since I saw the movie Serendipity. There was a 30 minute wait so we decided not to wait around...but I can say we were there! ;) Deb wanted to go out for a great dinner and we ended up eating at the hotel...sorry Deb!
Friday was our final day in New York. We went to MOMA Museum. This was our favorite museum. There was a lot of architecture art and buildings to see. This is what we loved at the museum. I love seeing Brent in his element. You see the passion he has for architecture. We got to the airport early and were able to get a flight home early! We were all ready to go home :)
We were so very lucky...the weather was amazing! It was never over 86 degrees and really only one day of humidity!
To Deb...thank you so much for such an amazing trip! You are the best :)We love you!!!
Below is a slideshow of just some of the pics. I think we took over 200 pics...but a lot of them are more structural stuff that we took and it would be hard to explain ;)
Enjoy!
3 comments:
sucha great trip!We also saw stars on that same trip. That LAX to JFK is a popular flight with celebs! We went at about the same time of year and it was so perfect!I love
NY!!! glad you had a great time. Still not sure how you did it preggo!!!! I'm tired just reading about it!
You must have been one tired lady! I'm glad the weather cooperated for you. Your trip looked fantastic, you did so much. I want to go back so bad! And I've wanted to eat at Serendipity since the movie too (it's one of the place we didn't get to). I'm officially jealous, but very happy for you ;)
Looks like you guys had a wonderful trip. Congrats to Brent on graduation and you for receiving teach of the year, that is awesome.
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