For the past two Thursdays, Chris and I have been able to have some adult time to ourselves. We haven't done much of this since Camryn was born mainly because we want to spend time with her as much as we can. But, we have been taking full advantage of the summer so far. Okay, so today involved buying her some birthday presents, but we did it alone. After that, we went to see the movie The Happening. Last week, though, we had a full 24 hours to ourselves in wonderful New York City. We took the train from NJ into Penn Station in the city and only had to walk a few blocks to our hotel. We walked around Madison Square Garden and the Empire State Building for a while until it was time to get ready for our dinner reservations. We left our hotel around 5:30 to grab the subway completely forgetting about rush hour. It is a far cry from rush hour in Lancaster!!! It was quite an experience, but we handled it like pros! After an amazing Italian dinner, we saw Phantom of the Opera. It was awesome! We enjoyed Times Square after the show for a while and headed back to the hotel much later than we had intended. We planned on getting up bright and early at 4:45 AM to get to the ABC studios to see Regis and Kelly - yes, we are crazy. Unfortunately, the alarm didn't go off and I woke up at 5:27 AM. We needed to be at the studio for stand by tickets by 6:00 AM. By some random miracle, we were able to get up, get ready, grab the subway, and make it to the studios right at 6:00 AM. Yeah, don't ask me how! Too bad it was all for nothing because we learned at that point that they don't do live tapings on Fridays in the summer! It would have been nice if the website said that!!! Anyway, we then walked a million blocks while making pit stops at the Today Show where Kenny Chesney was performing and stumbled upon The Early Show where we watched the cast of Xanadu perform as well as Camryn's favorite person, Bindi. We could only imagine what Camryn would have done if she were with us. We literally could have reached out and touched her (apparently the Early Show isn't a popular show in NYC because no one was around), so I am sure Camryn would have run right at her!!! We continued walking and doing whatever it was that we wanted to do. We walked in Central Park, had a great breakfast in a small cafe, and did some shopping in the big stores like Macy's and Toys R Us. Before we knew it, we had walked all the way back to our hotel! It was a lot of walking in one morning!!! We had a wonderful time, but it had to come to an end. We checked out of the hotel at 12:00 and headed back to Penn Station to catch the train to NJ. Camryn had a wonderful time with Connor and Ella and Aunt Jen said she fit right in to the family. She was extremely excited to see us when we got home, though!! There is nothing better than seeing her run full force across the room while screaming, "Mommy! Daddy!!!!!" We missed her a lot, but we had an incredible time. We plan on having more adult time this summer, but it may not all land on a Thursday - any day of the week works for us.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Adult Thursdays
For the past two Thursdays, Chris and I have been able to have some adult time to ourselves. We haven't done much of this since Camryn was born mainly because we want to spend time with her as much as we can. But, we have been taking full advantage of the summer so far. Okay, so today involved buying her some birthday presents, but we did it alone. After that, we went to see the movie The Happening. Last week, though, we had a full 24 hours to ourselves in wonderful New York City. We took the train from NJ into Penn Station in the city and only had to walk a few blocks to our hotel. We walked around Madison Square Garden and the Empire State Building for a while until it was time to get ready for our dinner reservations. We left our hotel around 5:30 to grab the subway completely forgetting about rush hour. It is a far cry from rush hour in Lancaster!!! It was quite an experience, but we handled it like pros! After an amazing Italian dinner, we saw Phantom of the Opera. It was awesome! We enjoyed Times Square after the show for a while and headed back to the hotel much later than we had intended. We planned on getting up bright and early at 4:45 AM to get to the ABC studios to see Regis and Kelly - yes, we are crazy. Unfortunately, the alarm didn't go off and I woke up at 5:27 AM. We needed to be at the studio for stand by tickets by 6:00 AM. By some random miracle, we were able to get up, get ready, grab the subway, and make it to the studios right at 6:00 AM. Yeah, don't ask me how! Too bad it was all for nothing because we learned at that point that they don't do live tapings on Fridays in the summer! It would have been nice if the website said that!!! Anyway, we then walked a million blocks while making pit stops at the Today Show where Kenny Chesney was performing and stumbled upon The Early Show where we watched the cast of Xanadu perform as well as Camryn's favorite person, Bindi. We could only imagine what Camryn would have done if she were with us. We literally could have reached out and touched her (apparently the Early Show isn't a popular show in NYC because no one was around), so I am sure Camryn would have run right at her!!! We continued walking and doing whatever it was that we wanted to do. We walked in Central Park, had a great breakfast in a small cafe, and did some shopping in the big stores like Macy's and Toys R Us. Before we knew it, we had walked all the way back to our hotel! It was a lot of walking in one morning!!! We had a wonderful time, but it had to come to an end. We checked out of the hotel at 12:00 and headed back to Penn Station to catch the train to NJ. Camryn had a wonderful time with Connor and Ella and Aunt Jen said she fit right in to the family. She was extremely excited to see us when we got home, though!! There is nothing better than seeing her run full force across the room while screaming, "Mommy! Daddy!!!!!" We missed her a lot, but we had an incredible time. We plan on having more adult time this summer, but it may not all land on a Thursday - any day of the week works for us.
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