Our adventures in NYC!

For Christmas/birthdays, Amanda and I decided to give each other a trip to the Big Apple to see Wicked on Broadway! It was a BLAST and one AMAZING show. We got to sit about 8 rows from the stage and felt like we were right in the production. Here are a few pics from the day trip to the city.

We were SUPER blessed to have Em & Sua offer to take our kids--not just for the day (Saturday), but for Friday night & Saturday night, too!! Not only that, but they let us take one of their cars for the 90 minute journey between Lititz to Trenton! THANKS you guys!

Brandon and Kev joined us for the trip up, and we got to spend the whole time minus the show together. This is a picture at the lovely parking garage right outside the Trenton, NJ, train station:


Catching the train bound for Penn Station:




"Ew, what's that smell, Kev?"


Our studly new RM brother, B:


After arriving in Penn Station, we spent our best $7 on day passes for the subway/bus system. We never messed with the busses because life "on the surface" was nuts so close to New Years. But the subway system rocks! We headed south first to Ground Zero. This photo was taken just after grabbing a sandwich at the Essex Cafe:


Then we walked south to Battery Park where we saw the WTC Memorial (this sculpture was IN one of the towers and they saved it in its damaged condition as a memorial to 09.11.01) tons of handbags for sale, and the Statue of Liberty from a distance...






Then it was time to head back uptown. We caught the subway and took it to Times Square.


We have never been in such a crowd... It took us 20 minutes to walk one block up there. We tried to walk over to Radio City Music Hall and something was going down over there. Brandon got a couple of NYPD with attitude telling him to "get back on the sidewalk" as we were all walking down a closed off 51st St. We went around the block and visited H&M, which was worthwhile simply because we got to use their restrooms.

From there we went to the "ticket lottery" to try our luck at getting front and center (in which event we would have given Kevin and B our other tickets), but we didn't have that fortune. Kev and B split from there for their own little adventure in SoHo. After some pizza at a local place, we went over and saw our show!


The show was simply mahhvelous! We can't wait to see it again when it travels through SLC. Kev & B met us at the subway station right by Gershwin Theatre, and we timed our arrival back at Penn Station perfectly enough to catch the "early" (11:14 p.m.) train back to Trenton, arriving there at a quarter to 1:00, then driving home. What fun memories!!