Saturday, December 29, 2007

NY on my mind . . .

Martha and I took a "baby-moon" trip to NYC. It also happened that Milly (maid-of-honor from our wedding who is from Spain) was going there too. Well, Robbie went a bit crazy with the pictures (took 200) so here is an abbreviated scrapbook from the trip.

DAY 1

Our day began with making a trip to ATL. They recently began selling maternity clothes in select stores. There happens to be two stores in NYC selling maternity clothes. Well, ATL was our first stop.

This is me while Martha was trying on all of these:

After all that shopping, Martha took a little nap and I went out and explored. I made it to Central Park and took this shot.

Around 4 Milly (from Spain) made it to our hotel. We took her out to a traditional NYC eatery . . .

Later on that night, we met another friend of Milly's who flew from California to see her. We ate dinner at Mesa Grill, one of Bobby Flay's restaurants. Here is us after a wonderful meal.

This is us returning to our hotel in Times Square.

DAY 2

So we woke up to this view from our hotel.

Our first stop was to the Today Show where we took these pictures.

No trip to Rockefeller Center would be complete without a picture by the tree.

Later on that day we made it down to the WTC. Words cannot explain what it was like to be there. I can not imagine what it would have been like to be there that day.

After the most frustrating part of the NYC trip, we finally made it to the Statue of Liberty. Robbie navigated NYC like he lived there all of his life, except for this leg of the trip, one hour, four trains going in all different directions, we finally made it there.
After getting there, and seeing the line to get back on the subway, we decided to take a cab back uptown.

Later that night we ran into a super hero in a phone booth while we on the way to the Hershey's Store. Here is Robbie enjoying a little late night snack.

Then Milly, Martha and I went to see a Broadway Play. We saw Legally Blonde. Here is curtain from the stage.

DAY 3

What a sad day . . . we have to go home. Well on the way to our first destination, Wall St., I stopped and snapped this picture of Martha. When I had the idea for the picture, there were 3 rows of taxis, but when we got ready to take the picture, it was only 1 van. Oh well . . . you get the idea.

Well, we made it to Wall Street and we even found the Trinity Church, which was featured in the movie, National Treasure.

The next picture made Robbie's day. All morning, he kept talking about finding the "bull." Well we found it and he rode it. That's my husband for you!!!

I guess after climbing the bull, he decided that he must climb everything. This is Robbie in a tree in Central Park.

We did pick up one gift for Campbell . . . she loves NY too!

Finally . . . here is Martha on the plane on the way back to Charlotte.

What a trip we had. Besides the pictures above, we took many more pictures of some cool locations, including: Carnegie Hall, Empire State Building, Grand Central Station, Chrysler Building, Macy's, Pennsylvania Station, NY Times Building, Radio City Music Hall, and a 3-Story Toys R Us with a ferris wheel inside!

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