Last week John was in NY for business so I joined him for a weekend of fun! It was my first trip to New York and our first time to take a trip without Jaden! The flight was easy (movies always help) and there was a car waiting to take me to the hotel. A ride in a NY taxi was on my list of "must dos" but once we got into the city, I was glad to be riding with a professional driver...at least until he told me he just came back to work after being off 2 weeks due to an accident. Nice! It was SO COLD and we didn't come prepared so we had to stop at a street vendor to get hats and gloves. I don't think we've ever walked so much in our lives! But it was a great! We saw Central Park (via rickshaw), NYU, Rockefeller Center, rode the subway, visited Wall Street and Ground Zero, walked through the Irish Memorial and Times Square, shopped at Macy's, saw the Statue of Liberty and our hotel was on the same block as Carnegie Hall and the Russian Tea Room. We really only had Saturday to do everything but we really covered a lot of ground. The City is more kid friendly than I expected but I wouldn't take Jaden during the holidays because of the cold. Our rickshaw driver said that September is the best time for families because the weather is so nice and you see lots of kids playing in Central Park. John and I will probably take Jaden just before he starts kindergarten. Here's some pics from the trip.
View from our room
(that's Central Park in the middle)
Construction of the Twin Towers Memorial at Ground Zero
At The Irish Hunger Memorial
Times Square
Dinner in The Chestnut Room @ Tavern on the Green
Our last night in New York
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