The rest of New York City trip....

We started the day off on Saturday riding around on the bus tour looking around the city. We went on the downtown tour where Madison Square Garden was.A little before 11, we got off at Carnegie Hall and went through a Beatles exhibit and then a walking tour of Carnegie Hall. The tour was good and it made me think it'd be fun to play my violin in there!

On the bus riding through the city

They had lots of horse carriages around that you could take a ride on...we never did, but you could for the low price of $50 for a 20 minute ride! After our Carnegie Hall tour, we went to Toys R Us and saw the ferris Wheel.

A big Willy Wonka chocolate factory-type area...They had lots to buy in this area, but it's cheaper to just buy the candy in a Wal-Mart back home, so we came out empty-handed!

After that stop, we jumped on the bus again and stopped off at Macy's. You can't go to New York over Thanksgiving without going to Macy's! It's a store with 11 levels of shopping and a wooden escalator. Downstairs they had a big food area. One of the things I liked was this gingerbread house village. I like to decorate a gingerbread house at Christmas time, so this was neat to see! The store was packed the entire time that we were in there with lots of people, so we weren't in there all day!

At night they always have broadway shows and musicals. If you wait two hours before they start showing, you can get the tickets half price. On Saturday night we went to "Radio City Hall Christmas Spectacular." It featured the Rockettes in it, which are very talented dancers. They did a very good job of telling the Christmas story, which is hard to find in today's day and age.


In NYC, it's common to have these bikers hooked up to a buggy, so when we got outside the hall after the show, there were a bunch waiting for riders. We thought it sounded like fun, so told him where we needed to go and off we went. They go right on the main roads with the traffic and are swerving right in and out with the taxis...made for an interesting ride, but we made it to the hotel safely and had a good experience!

Sunday morning we went and had breakfast and then had a van shuttle service come pick us up to the airport and spent the rest of the day getting home. It was a good Thanksgiving weekend filled with memories!

Our Day in NYC....

Well, I thought I'd post quick before we relax for the night...today was a busier day and a longer one...but fun-filled.
We started the day at 5 am so we could get up and stand in line to watch the Today show. We got there by 5:30 and waited for an hour before they opened the gates to let people in. It was interesting to see how they film the two hour morning show. We made the camera a few times....
After that, we bought a bus pass so we could go around the city and get off at different times and different parts of it. It was a double-decker bus. One of the stops was by the Ground Zero, where the twin towers collapsed ten years ago. They have a little museum-gift shop area about it too.

Then we bought a pass to go on the ferry to go to Ellis Island and to see the statue of liberty. Here is Andrew on the ferry going over.

Statue of Liberty

I like this picture of us-- it's kind of hard to get pictures because there's so many people around.

Us in front of the Statue of Liberty. I'm thankful to be married to my best friend! It's been a great Thanksgiving out here.
Well, Andrew fell asleep already, so it must be time to end the post...I'll catch up later!

Hello from NYC!

Well, NYC is a BLAST! Last night(wednesday) we got the the hotel by 6 after three hours of flight delays, but the ride from the airport gave us our first taste of the big apple. Our driver seemed like he couldn't go fast enough, or cut off enough other cars, or honk enough!

After getting checked in to the hotel and finding our room on the 21st floor, we headed out to get a feel for the city and find some food. We decided to go to a highend restauraunt and found that we had never heard of anything on the menu, and I mean it. Rebecca ended up getting flat noodles with mushrooms, cheese and some other stuff that we had never seen before, anyways, today we met up with my friend and got up to the 9th floor of a building to watch the parade and it was spectacular! The crowds were loud and so were the marching bands. The view was great and everything was really undescribable.

We went to rockefeller plaza and up to the top of the rock(top of the building). The view was like nothing else. The skyscrapers seem endless and you can see the statue of liberty out there, and central park and the empire state building. It is great.

We just got back from a broadway play called Million dollar quartet, about sun records and elvis, johny cash and some others. It was very very good as well. Well we are going to get some sleep now so we can get up early to get to the today show.

Blog Catchup

We ended the month of October by doing some carving of pumpkins and getting ready for the trick-or-treaters. We had quite a few, considering we live in town.


Here we are with our carved pumpkin, in between the kids coming down the street to our house to trick or treat.

We were in Lemmon last weekend and did some hunting and work on the farm. Andrew's two friends from Michigan, Dan and Mike came out as well.

Here we are hunting with our new gun.

The kids at school learned about clocks, so here is one activity that they did: they rolled the dice, and whatever they rolled on the dice was the time they would draw on their paper. I had a clock stamper that they used to stamp and then draw the time that they rolled...for example, a roll of a 5 on the dice would you 5:00.
I made these cute counting dimes cards...I found them on the internet and laminated them. They have dimes on each card and the kids have to count the coins and write the time on the corresponding sheet.

Today in second grade, we learned about ordering two digit numbers. I found these cards online also, so I printed them and laminated them for a future lesson (today.) Each card has four numbers and they have to put the numbers in the correct order.

And, finally tonight: winterizing our house, since it's the middle of November. We still have no snow, but snow is in the near future. Andrew is putting plastic on our windows to keep the cold air out.