New York City Baby!!!

So, the trip to NYC was wooooonderful!! I loved it! The city was amazing, very friendly, very busy....of course, and just had a wonderful vibe!

We arrived very early on Saturday morning - 8:00am! So, we dropped off our luggage at the hotel...which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...and we started our shopping day! Oh yeah baby!! We were only a couple of blocks from Broadway and started towards Time Square. It was amazing. There are billboards everywhere! It was really cool to get to experience. I loved it there. It's definitely friendlier than Montreal! I thought anyway. We got to do alot and see alot but we still relaxed, didn't rush anywhere, and slept in! What a treat!

Thanks again to Darryl's wonderful parents for taking care of Shamus and Breagha. They did very well, by the way. Breagha was a bit lonely on Saturday and would do a little cry every now and then...and that was it. Shamus asked for us on Saturday morning, and that was it! His cousins came in from Ottawa and he had a blast! I don't think he was too worried that we were gone!!!

Here are a few shots of the trip:

I was pretty impressed with all the billboards. They really are everywhere...well, in the Time Square area. Of course they aren't all over Manhatten! They're huge too. I saw one ad for Aveeno cream and it was the whole block!

And more billboards...

Heading to Time Square...I was pretty pumped!

And that's Time Square.

We went to see Tarzan on Saturday night. It was superb. The staging was amazing, the cast was excellent, and it was just cool.

On Sunday we headed to Rockefeller Center and then to Central Park. This is in front of Rockefeller Central...you know where they skate in the winter, NBC's headquarters, and do all the events...all that good stuff! ...of course we did some shopping on the way!!!...it took forever to actually get to Central Park because we stopped every 10feet!

Darryl checking out Rockefeller....

This was really cool. Remember the famous NewYork pictures of the Steel workers from the 1930's...working on Rockefeller Center. Well, this was inside the building, on the way up. You could sit on one of the beams with the "famous" background....

View from the top of Rockefeller. That's the Empire State Building in the back. (thanks for the tip Kristjan!)
View of Central Park for the top of Rockefeller. I didn't realize that C Park was so big.

We stopped in at FAO Schwartz. Pretty cool. This is the piano that Tom Hanks played on in the movie "Big".

Finally made it to Central Park! Only took us about 5 hours!!!

Central Park.

Yeah, so this is inside Macy's. This is a shot of the cosmetics department...this is only a small part of the department. Macy's is the biggest department store in the world. 10 Floors! You needed a map to get around! Huge!

Bubba Gump's restaurant!

Oh yeah, did we forget to mention that we got tickets to the Late Show with Dave Letterman?!!!

Oh yeaaaaaah! Pretty awesommmme! We were pumped! I emailed the show about a month before we left but I really didn't think that we would get tickets. The show called on Thursday and asked Darryl a question about the show...he got it right, and we won the tickets! Oh man was I excited! We got there on Monday afternoon, the workers ask you a couple of questions..."scan" the audience...and they put us in the Front Row! Right in front of Dave! I couldn't sit still! And the guests were Matt Damon...Wheee hooo!!...and Dario Franchitti...he just won the Indy 500...and he's married to Ashley Judd.

So, needless to say...this was definitely the highlight for me. I was so pumped for the show. It was cool to see how everything worked. They have a comedian come out before the show to "warm up" the crowd. Then the band comes out. Then Dave came out for a couple of minutes. He was standing right in front of us! I'm not a "star struck" person, but it was really cool!

Going to pick up the tickets.

Yeah, Dario Franchitti drove his race car down the street after the show. Pretty cool.

And that was the trip. We did lots of sightseeing, saw Madison Square Garden, Radio City, Tiffany's, NYC Library..which Darryl thought was cool because of the movie "Day After Tomorrow", lots of shopping, went out to some great restaurants, slept in, drank booze, checked out some pubs/clubs, more shopping, took the subways...which of course I almost got stuck on one!...I don't have good luck with subways!!....and did some more sightseeing and shopping, and reeeeelaxed together!