The Big Apple!!

The post everyone has been waiting for, including me. I knew it would take me some time to get this together so here it is...finally.

The view from our room. My dad and Mary got us an awesome room at the Marriot Marquis for my bday present. It was so cool there! Perfect location, right on Times Square by everything. Thank you!

Day One...We left on Monday July 25th but with all the traveling it takes to get there, the time change, a delayed flight from Chicago and a crazy ride in a taxi at 1am, this day was shot. So we went to bed and woke up refreshed to take on the city on tuesday. We went on a walk through central park and found our way to the Natural History Museum. It was amazing! So much to look at and as we were leaving this sweet girl asked to take our picture and so here is one of us together. A very rare thing on a trip with just two people. One of us usually always had to take the picture or we have a lot of us together but with one of us holding the camera:)

Tuesday night we had tickets to a show at Radio City Music Hall called Zarkana. It is a cirque de soleil show and was amazing! Both of us really enjoyed it. Radio City was really beautiful inside and had the most comfortable seats.

Wednesday was my berfday. The big 3-0! I woke up and we went and had a yummy danish and milk because I could and went to the Harry Potter Exhibit and the Pompeii Exhibit. Both were awesome and I was so happy to see the HP one cuz you know we are all crazy for Harry in our house. I was sad that our kids didnt get to see it. Maybe someday it will come close to us and we can take them.

After the exhibits, we were hungry and so we went around the corner and saw Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. SO we ate there and I had the best shrimp salad ever. Yum.

After lunch we had tickets to Phantom of the Opera!! Yay a dream come true for me. It was awesome and I loved every minute of it. Mitch however fell asleep. Yeah, annoying. Also embarassing.

After Phantom Mitch wanted to go to Chinatown and Little Italy so we rode the subway down and I dont have any pictures of anything there because, well I could have lived my whole life without going there! It was so dirty and very questionable characters were everywhere! So lame. Thats all I have to say about that.

Mitch made up for taking me to China, with a nice horsedrawn carriage ride through Central Park during sunset. Much better!

This is where John Lennon lived and was shot:( Yoko still lives there.

The famous Plaza Hotel

 Our carriage driver was stupid and didnt know how to take pictures, can u tell??

After the carriage ride, we ate some yummy pizza and salad at a small pizza joint by Serendipity because the wait was so long for a table, we just walked down the street, had dinner and went back and got seated for some dessert. I had their famous frozen hot chocolate. It was divine! Mitch had a killer sundae that was made up of warm pecan pie on the bottom with butter pecan ice cream, caramel and hot fudge sauce with whipped cream. It was super too!

After we rolled out of Serendipity, we stumbled upon this...The mothership of all Gap's!! Awwww!

Times Square

On thursday, we went to Top of the Rock, which is an observatory 80 floors up. We had heard from several people that it was even better than the empire state building. So we went for it and it was amazing! The view and sites were unbelievable! This was one of my favorite things that we did in NY.

Empire State Building

After TOTR, we found our way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or known as The Met. We spent the majority of the day in here. It was so wonderful. There were so many things we liked about this museum. They had so many cool things that we might never see again like art from Monet, Picasso, Van gough, a real part of a temple, lots of egyptian arctifacts, jewels, stones, photos, sculptures, it had a roof garden and reall good food in their cafeteria.  

That night we met up with a friend of mine from high school, Josh. He moved to NYC right out of high school and has done very well for himself. We had a really great time and he took us to dinner at a little hole in the wall but I seriously had the best pizza of my life there! It was so good to see him!

On friday we decided to ride the subway down to see the Statue of Liberty. It was well worth the humidity we endured down there. It is a sight to see! She is beautiful and her color is so brightly green. Its amazing that she is as old as she is. She was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States and is a universal symbol of freedom and democracy. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886, designated as a National Monument in 1924 and restored for her centennial on July 4, 1986.

Mitch's salute to America and the Lady Liberty...These pictures are so hilarious to me! Gotta love his sense of humor.

That night we had tickets to watch the Yankee's play the Baltimore Orioles!! We had some yummy hot dogs and were watching batting practice when all of a sudden it started to down pour! And it didnt let up for almost an hour and a half. But then after lots of praying on my husband's behalf {heehee}, the rain stopped and they uncovered the field and we had an exciting game! Awesome stadium and we had awesome seats!  

Derek Jeter was getting heckled by this kid sitting right next to us, he kept yelling at Derek, calling his name and all of a sudden he turns our way ans says to the kid "What?" Funny.

A prefect ending to a perfect trip...Junior's cheesecake. It was like heaven in a box. Thank you honey so much for this trip for my bday. You are so special.

Love you long time.