Saturday, June 14, 2008

10 Year Anniversary Trip to New York - May 2008











For our 10 year anniversary (which was actually April 24 but Ed was in Europe for an Executive MBA trip) Ed and I went to New York.  Luckily, my cousins Angela & Cortney were able to come and watch our 4 boys - they did a fabulous job!  We could not have gone without all their help!  Thanks!  You guys did a great job and my boys had so much fun with you!

In the 4 days Ed & I were in New York - we saw and did a LOT! We flew into LaGuardia Airport, Thursday, May 15 around 6 pm at night. Once we got our luggage, we waited in line for a taxi to take us to our hotel, Marriott East Side. One advantage of Ed traveling so much is we got our plane tickets using miles and we paid for most of our hotel with Marriott points. The taxi ride was an experience in itself - taxi drivers are a little crazy, but they know where they are going and how to get there. Once we got checked into our hotel and put our stuff in our very small room (which I am told was pretty big by New York standards), we decided to go walk around and see what was nearby. We had a few things planned for our trip but thought we would play a lot of it by ear. If you click on the pages above, you can see more details.  Here are the highlights of our trip:
* Carriage Ride in Central Park
* Serendipity 3 (we ate there 3 times)
* Today Show (just outside)
* Riding the Subway
* Statue of Liberty
* Ellis Island
*Grand Central Terminal
* Time Square
* Eating lots of Pizza
* Wicked
* Street Festival
* Ground Zero
* Wall Street
* Brooklyn Bridge
* Law & Order Courthouse
* China Town
* Little Italy
* Phantom
* Empire State Building
* Mama Mia
* Tram to Roosevelt Island
* Hershey Store
* Planet Hollywood

Sorry for all the pictures - I tried putting a slideshow of my pages on instead of all 11 pages but I get an error from blogger, bX-vvjlxq.  Everything I can find says their is a bypass to it but no one will tell you what it is - UGH!!!!!

7 comments:

Amy said...

I've been waiting to see these pictures - I'm so glad you put up all 11 pages! It looks like you had a blast. I love the one of you in the Hershey store. Wish we could have joined you guys - darn father/son campout!

Gina said...

WOW - super fun! NY is the best! You look REALLY good in the pics. I can't figure out where you get the time to scrapbook & post so much stuff - do you sleep?

Jolley's said...

NY is the best! I'm glad you guys got to go too! I'm still working on my NY pics to post...it's quite the project! Yours turned out cute!

Donna said...

I love your pages. I can tell you are really loving digital scrapbooking and your pages look great! When I see yours I think how much faster it would be ... but I'm still not ready. Maybe someday. NY is one of those places that I'd love to go! Glad you had so much fun!

The O'Havers said...

Your pages look awesome! You make it look so easy. I thought the same thing that Gina said...you look so cute in your pics. I'm excited to come take care of them again in August. You have the best boys!! And...it looks like I am going to have a couple more helpers to be able to feed Brecken. They will have the routine down by the time I get there. Hee hee! Miss ya all!

Amanda Stephan said...

What fun!!! I've always wanted to go to NYC....and yes, I remind Rob about this! ha ha. Hello cute, skinny, blonde lady!!!! You look great and I'm glad you guys had so much fun....just the two of you! :)

Rachel said...

Oh how fun! We are hoping for a fun 10 year trip as well but can't come up with a way to swing it with the four kids. Humm. . . we'll keep thinking!