New York City! Part One

Conrad and I got to go to the Big Apple for spring break thanks to my brother and sister in-law James and Tricia. They gave us their free frequent flier tickets for Christmas last year, so thank you James and Tricia! We had a blast! New York City is such a fun place to visit. We spent 3 whole days there and did so many things and yet we barely scratched the surface of the things you can do there. We saw Broadway shows, ate New York pizza and other delicious food, went sight seeing, got lost several times, and walked around A LOT! I went from hardly walking to walking 6 or more miles a day and boy were my feet and legs sore! But it was so worth it.

We left bright and early on Tuesday morning. Here we are waiting to get on our plane. We look so tired!

We arrived in New York in the early evening, I was a little worried when we pulled up to our hotel and saw this...

The surrounding area of our hotel was a little sketchy looking, but it wasn't bad at all we had a nice stay there.

We were right across the street from a cemetery. It was crazy how tightly packed all the tombstones were. Just like all the buildings in New York.

The hotel told us that since we were staying four nights they gave us their best room. We were surprised to find this in our room...

Our very own personal Jacuzzi right next to our bed. Yes!

We were so tired from the plane trip we decided to order in food to our room and turn in early.

We had to walk a mile everyday to the subway from our hotel. It took us a few days to figure out the whole subway thing. We either got on the wrong one, or we got off at the wrong stop and had to get back on. Oh, and a couple times we missed it because we took too long to get on or off.

So happy we found the right subway!

Our first day in New York we walked around Time Square and looked for shows that were selling discount tickets.

Right in the middle of Time Square. I couldn't believe I was actually there.

I really wanted to see Wicked, I saw it in San Fransisco 8 years ago and LOVED it and I have been wanting to see it again ever since, but the tickets are so dang expensive. So we signed up for the lottery that they do before every show to try and win super cheap front row tickets but we didn't win. I was so bummed. BUT, we did win the lottery tickets for the play, Godspell Wahoo!

We were in the very front row sitting on pillows, yep pillows. It wasn't the most comfortable place to sit. Conrad wasn't too thrilled ha ha.

Here we are sitting on our pillows.

This is a really bad picture, but I just took it to show exactly how close we were to the stage, I could rest my chin on the stage, we were that close.

GodSpell was pretty good. It was a bunch of different parables from the book of Matthew. I almost got kicked in the face a couple times though ha ha.

After Godspell we walked around, ate some delicious Pizza and then saw the show Mama Mia.

After Mama Mia we walked around and enjoyed all the lights and craziness of New York City.

More pictures to come soon.