It's a Wonderful Life

Well one advantage of not having any time to blog, is that I get to relive our vacation night after night as I try to update :)  So, on Friday morning we had planned on sleeping in, but honestly I was just too excited.  I think I woke up at 6:30- crazy how wired we are to wake up early once we are parents! One thing that was kind of "stressing me out" was getting to a couple of shows I have always dreamed of going to.  One is Regis and Kelly (well now Kelly and Michael) however I didn't get tickets ahead of time so this would have meant standing in a stand by line at 7:00 which even though I was awake, I didn't want to be out of the door at 6:30.  So at around 9:00 we walked over to the Rockefeller Center to check out the Today show (oh by the way, if you didn't know I was huge nerd before this trip, these posts will most certainly confirm this fact!) As you can see, there was no one at the Today show on Friday.  I guess they were on location in Florida...

On Thursday morning we said good bye to my mom and the kids and headed out!  It felt sooo weird to be childless in the car for so long, but we had a great time catching up, trying to sleep (that would me), and eating candy :) And then . . . we were there!  And I was so excited to be in the city that I had dreamt about for so long that I started taking bad pictures through our dirty windshield. :) I also started frantically trying to find any song on my phone that is about New York before we got to the parking garage.  We found a parking garage just yards away from Kim's apartment, which was nice.   I brought way too many shoes to lug around blocks and blocks :) So Erik's cousin, Kim was so nice and offered to let us use  her Manhattan apartment (which is what started this whole idea).  She often goes skiing in the winter, so we set up a date that she would be gone and she left instructions with the doorman to give us a key.  Her place i...