Then we went to the Temple with our wonderful friends, the Thorely's.
Boys got a little tired from running around, so what do you do? Well you lay on the ground of course. Oh, if we could all be like little kids again!
Then Christian and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary! Yay! Christian planned an amazing weekend. We went to New York (kid free) to see Wicked! Our friends kindly accepted to watch our kids for Friday and Saturday while we spend a night in the big apple. We headed out Friday morning and was planning on hitting the Temple but long story short it didn't work out too well mainly because of parking. So we found our hotel. We had a room right on 51th street so it was awesome! Everything was at our finger tips. We headed straight to Central Park and enjoyed a lovely walk then walked around more to see some other sites and visit stores till our dinner reservations at Vice Versa. People were great there and my food was delicious! Christian's food was not quite as good but still really good. Then we got back to the room and I saw on the news a storm was going to hit PA Saturday night so I thought, good, we should make it home before then. Then I wake up Saturday morning to find a text from our friends saying the storm has hit and it's a blizzard. Hmmm. That's no good. How are we going to get home? Well the snow storm hit New York around 11:30am that morning and we soon realized that we would not be going home. Roads were closed and the weather was awful. Moving on. During the time the snow hit we happen to be in a WONDERFUL diner called Ellen's Stardust Diner eating lunch. It was the most fun I've ever had at a restaurant. ALL the waiters are aspiring Broadway people and so as they serve and take orders they are singing and dancing full out. A glorified karaoke. (Cheesy? Definitely, but I loved it.) We had a few regular songs that were fun and enjoyable but we also had some great ones. 'Sweet Carolina' by Neil Diamond and EVERYONE in the diner was singing. We had a Frank Sinatra sort of voice sing 'Let it Snow' (very appropriate, I thought). Then we had a Phantom of the Opera song and the guy voice was amazing! He kept yelling 'Sing to me, my Angel'. It was awesome! Then we headed over to see Wicked. Amazing. More than amazing. I could watch it over and over again and the songs are more fun to listen to now that I've seen the show. I loved every minute of it! We then walked Times Square some more, grabbed dinner and went back to the hotel cause it was FREEZING and a mess outside. Sunday morning we got up early and headed home. Sure getting 'snowed in' in New York is fun but I think my bank account will beg to differ. All I can say is I hope our second loan disbursement comes soon. Yikes!
Cool side note is that New York hasn't had snow in October since before the Civil War. Wow! We witnessed history. So cool!
Our backyard looks so tempting. Snowman, here we come!
And what the heck, why not throw on another picture! Man, I love this boy!
Happy Halloween!
