Saturday, August 15, 2009

Our trip to NYC*

Let me just warn you now that this is going to be a LONG post! Me and my mom have been quite the traveler's for the past 2 weeks. I picked her up on Monday the 3rd and we stayed the night in Philly then woke up at 4:30 am to catch the train to downtown China Town in Philly to catch the 7 am bus to New York! And when I say bus I don't mean just a regular bus station that everyone is familiar with.... we were walking around in chinatown which is scary enough trying to find our stupid bus that everyone we asked seemed to know nothing about! We finally found this guy that has seen others like us walking around with papers and confusion on our faces! He told us that we get picked up by that little yellow sign with Chinese on it........... ya scary! Here is my mom sitting by our "bus station" hahaha

Other people starting showing up so we weren't so scared anymore. We met a lady and her son that helped us out a lot on our journey to NYC.

This is us on the bus almost to New York
My mom in the park where they do "Good Morning America" She loves this show!


After getting off the bus in NYC China town and getting on the subway.. we finally made it to where we got on our tour for the day! Let me tell you we looked like real dandies trying to get around on the subway.. it was hilarious!!!
View of the Empire State Building

Ground Zero

There are all of these statue of liberties that stand around so I thought I would go get a picture with one.. little did I know it was like 5 bucks just for a picture so I said no thanks but my mom happened to snap a few shots without them knowing :)

Me and my mom on the ferry to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. We standed in line for probably 2 hours for this! It was so hot and we were carrying all of our get ready crap and clothes in a backpack because we weren't able to go to our hotel yet.

View from the boat




Me on top of our tour bus

United Nations

My mom by the Rockafellar Center

Times Square



Madison Square Garden

Macy's:)

View from the top of the Empire State Building. We waited probably over an hour and a half in this line too.. It was ridiculous how many people were there! We were so beat!


Central Par


As you can tell since we look like beauties that we were so sweaty and tired from walking and touring all day

We finally made it to our hotel... after getting lost on the subway... and got some dinner in a little street cafe right by our hotel. Our hotel was hilarious, it was nice but it was so tiny! Right when you walked into the room you basically hit our bed! We were so tired we didn't really care! The next morning we slept in a little then woke up and got ready for Mamma Mia on Broadway. We got lost again on the subway............... haha
On the way to the play we stopped and got some lunch and saw some more fun things


Infront of the Winter Garden Theater

Us in the theater getting ready for the show to start. The play was definitely the highlight of the trip to New York. It was amazing and I would see it 20 more times if I could!!! The singing was awesome and it was just so entertaining!!
Me and the M&M factory
Me and my mom sat in Times Square for a while and just people watched. It was so crazy and busy it was fun to just sit there! After that it was time to make it back to the bus to head back to Philly. And let me tell you it was quite the adventure in itself! We asked probably 5 people how to get to the subway before we finally found it. After we got off in China town we probably walked a couple mines trying to find the dang "bus station" Once again it was infront of a random chinese shop! Haha we were so ready to get out of the city by then!!


Washinton DC Temple

Amy's mom took me and Annie to the Washinton DC temple to do a session before we left. It was so pretty! The grounds were so pretty and green! I was so glad that I got to experience going to this temple. Thanks Marsali!







oNe yEar!

For our anniversary on August 2nd we went to the Arlington Cemetery. It was the hottest day ever. We we're sweating to death!! But it was worth it to see everything. We walked around and saw all of the graves, they are amazing how straight and organized they are. You look and the grave stones go forever. We went and saw the changing of the guards and that was probably my favorite thing to see. It is so cool and I can't believe they do it 24/7! Here are a few pics

Changing of the guards.. they change every 30 minutes
Tomb of the unknown soliders



Me, Ty and Austin





After the cemetery me and Tyler went to lunch at Olive Garden and then went back to our hotel. Our hotel was right by downtown so it was really nice! We got ready and then went to dinner at the Lonestar and then went to the movie. I can't believe we have been married a year! It has flown by!!


Thursday, July 30, 2009

The ZOO

Me and Annie decided we needed to get out and do some things here since we will be going home very soon! We looked around and decided to go to the zoo mainly because it was FREE :) We had a lot of fun seeing the animals and I was excited to see my first Panda bear! They we're so cute!



Me by the elephants
Anne posing by the panda





Downtown DC & BBQ

Sine our office moved from Philly to Washington DC, last Sunday me and Tyler decided to go downtown and see some things since we are like 5 minutes away. We didn't have a lot of time so we drove around and saw some things and then parked and went and saw the Jefferson Monument. It was so cool, I had never seen anything like it. After that we got on some paddle boats and paddled around and saw some of the monuments from our boats! It was pretty funny in those things! After that we went home and had a BBQ with everyone! It is really different here and WAY humid, but so far so good!!!


Me and Ty in the boats

Jefferson Monument



Washington Monument

Annie, me, and Amy at the BBQ

All the boys
The whole crew