New York

Tim and I finally decided to take a trip without our kids. It took us a while to decide where to go, but we finally agreed on New York City.

We left on Tuesday, June 17. Our 20th wedding anniversary. We flew into Newark and took a car straight to the hotel in Midtown. We spent the first evening wandering around the city looking for some Italian food and decided to eat at a restuarant in Eataly. It was fun to look around while we were waiting for our table. Then we wandered a bit more in search of dessert on our way back to the hotel and found some pastries at a random little shop. 

On Wednesday morning we planned to get up early to beat the heat but ended sleeping in and didn't get started until 11:00. So we decided to just stick to Utah time for the trip and had a NY cheesestake from a food truck for breakfast. We walked down to Penn Station and then decided to take the subway up to the park. We walked from 86th Central Park West across the park to The Met (which is closed on Wednesdays), and then got an ice cream and some lemondade and walked around the resevoir, back to the other side. I decided to live my best You've Got Mail life and get a kiss from the love of my life in front of the 91st Street Garden in Riverside park. We also made our way over to Brooklyn for pizza at Juliana's. 

Then we took the Subway back downtown to Times Square, which understably blew Tim's mind. It really is like no other place we've ever been. We went back to the hotel to try and tried to find some tickets to a show, but when we weren't having luck we decided to just wander around Broadway and see if there were any available tickets. We finally lucked out with Stranger Things and it was incredible. We were both just totally blown away and kept saying how much the kids would love it. Except Ava, she hates scary shows. We ended up just getting Five Guys on the way home.

Thursday morning we headed toward the Statue of Liberty, but decided to stop by the World Trade Center and 9/11 memorial first. We took our time walking around the memorials. Then we walked down to Battery Park and got a glimpse of the statue and sat in the shade for a while. I finally got the try a NYC bagel at Lazzaro's. It was fine. We took a walk up the Highline to look around then decided to take the subway to the Met. I really wish we had more time there, but we stopped and got Bua Thai Ramen for lunch and didn't get there until the middle of the afternoon. It closed at 5:00 - just in time for everyone to have to exit the building in the middle of a downpour. So we got completely drenched looking for the subway station. We finally found it to get back to the hotel, but we accidently got off on the wrong stop and ended up walking for a couple more miles. We went and got pizza and Alfredo at Roma Pizza and then crepes and a milkshake (definately not a Utah milkshake) and went back to the hotel to watch the final NBA playoff game. Which is when we got a phone call that Mason had hurt his ankle jumping on the trampoline...