New York City

Our family at the Rainforest Cafe

Day 1...

For our 1st Wedding Anniversary we decided to take a 6 hour trip up to the Big Apple. We left early in the morning on Friday so the kids could sleep. We got into New York around 930, we checked into our hotel and decided to head over to Hoboken, NJ to Carlos Bakery which is where The Cake Boss one of my favorite shows is filmed at. It was exactly like the show, the mom was so funny..she was dancing and singing around. I wasnt going to take any pictures inside until I seen someone take one of his sister Mary who at the time was checking us out so I then asked her if I could take one of her, she said if youd like but I can take one with you instead so of course I said yes! While there we got a cake for our Anniversary and a lobster tail and canoli. Chris liked the lobster tail better while I liked the canoli better, the cake was sooooooo yummy it was yellow and chocolate cake with fudge in between the two layers, we still have half left but shouldnt be long before its all gone =) Then after we headed to a nearby overlook of New Jersey City. We then went into New York City for a little while just to do some looking around, we seen alot of things like the New Years ball, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Disney Store, and FAO Shwartz. Later that night we headed about 45 min. to the Rainforest Cafe to eat dinner. Yummy...I had Steak, Ribs and Shrimp scampi it was sooo yummy lol We had a great first day of our trip and an awesome 1st Anniversary.

Carlos Bakery!

 

Mary and me at Carlos

 

Our Anniversary Cake

 

 

Disney Store

FAO Shwartz

Nathans cool monkey hat we got in China Town

Hailey and me

Nathan and me

Day 2...

We headed to the Staten Island Ferry we took a cab with a crazy driver, actually all cab drivers are crazy. And NY and NJ drivers are all crazy actually..ive never heard so many horns honking in my life! I swear people honk their horns just for fun. Anyways, we had to wait 20 min. for the Ferry then we loaded and decided we would stay on the outside part so we could get good pictures of the Statue of Liberty..the Ferry ride took a half hour to get there then we had to get off wait another 20 min and get on another one to bring us back to NYC again which took a hour hour. So that took up alot of our day right there. The Statue of Liberty was awesome to see in person. Then afterwards we took a train over to China Town to do some shopping..most crowded place out of all the NY! After finally making it through all the crowds of people we ended up in West Village..we wont talk about it there...then we finally got to our train and were able to go back to the hotel to eat dinner and rest...we ordered pizza from some small pizza place nearby.

On the Staten Island Ferry

Day 3...

Was the best day of them all! We headed to Central Park..which is beautiful! We did the Central Park Carousel which both kids LOVED...then we watched the people ice skating for a few minutes before heading over the the Central Park Zoo. At the zoo we had an awesome experience. The kids loved it. At the Snow Leopard exibit he was sleeping over in the corner, Hailey was sitting on a rock and I was taking her picture then all of a sudden he was behind a rock that was behind her and he just jumped up at her and kept hitting the glass where she was, it was so cute! Hailey had no idea what was going on, everyone was surrounding us looking at what was happening it was awesome. After the zoo we decided to head to Hooters for lunch and to watch the Steelers Game =) The kids both fell asleep on our way over and Nathan stayed sleeping the whole time we were eating. After Hooters we headed a few blocks up to Dylans Candy Bar for some yummy candy! It was huge in there and I felt like I was in heaven, I have a HUGE sweet tooth incase you didnt know! We then headed what felt like a million blocks to the Path train to head back to the hotel! We walked a million miles it seemed on our trip. I swear ive never walked so much in my life, seriously my toes feel like they are going to fall off. We are so thankful the weather stayed so nice the whole time for us. The kids did awesome on the trip, they got a little restless at times when they were in the stroller too long or when they were tired, but other then that they did good we couldnt be happier! I really wish I wouldve taken more pictures, but it was so hard with all the people plus having to push the stroller or holding one of the kids. We hope to go back again in the near future though!

Getting ready to go!

Me as the Statue of Liberty

Chris made me take my picture with the A&F model!

The Central Park Carousel

They loved it!

The Snow Leopard pouncing at Hailey

Pigeons..

Hailey loved this frog!

Both kiddos sound asleep at Hooters lol