New York City and Longwood Gardens

So our first trip was to New York City. And I was kind of dreading it. I am not a big city person. I was so nervous that we would get mugged or kidnapped or something. I told Bryce before we left that it may be the last time he would ever see me alive. The night before we left for New York I had the hardest time sleeping too because I was having all these dreams, or nightmares I guess, about getting lost and stuff! So I was really glad that everything went well while we were there. We did get lost driving...which really was to be expected. I am the worst with directions and even get confused driving in downtown Bartlesville, which is pretty sad. But we made it to our hotel in one piece and didn't get lost on the subway once!

We went to Times Square, Central Park, saw the Manhattan temple, went to a broadway show (Phantom of the Opera), rode in a taxi with a fingerless driver, took a ferry by the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, walked by Ground Zero, took a tour of the NBC studios, went to the Empire State Building, and got to all of these places on the subway!

Here are some of the pictures we took. They are mostly of Jenny and Sarah, because it was their vacation and I don't really like pictures too much. I decided to try making a collage of them because we had quite a few. Hopefully it works out okay. I guess I should also mention that Sarah broke her arm playing soccer again a few weeks ago, and that is why she has on a bright orange cast.


1- Jenny and Sarah in the subway 2 - At the top of the Empire State Building 3 - Sarah with a peanut M&M 4 - Times Square at night 5 - J Dawg, S Kid, and P Diddy 6 - Central Park 7 - This one is for mom, Jenny drinking straight from the bottle 8 - By the Manhattan LDS Temple 9 - Jen and Sar in the M&M store 10 - In the Hershey store, aka heaven on earth =)


1 - Sarah looking out over Ground Zero 2 - Palm trees in New York! 3 - Jenny at Ground Zero 4 - Jen with the Statue of Liberty 5 - The girls on the ferry 6 - Sar with the Statue of Liberty 7 - on the ferry with the New York skyline in the background 8 - So this is on here twice, but I don't want to redo the collage, so Jen and Sar at the top of the Empire State Building 9 - New York from the ferry!

We had a lot of fun in New York and were very glad to make it back to our apartment with no problems. We slept in the next day and decided to visit Longwood Gardens that evening. We walked around, took some pictures, and happened upon a Celtic Concert where the Hunt Family Fiddlers were performing! They are really good and we were glad we went when we did so that we could see them. It is a family of 7 kids, 2 girls and 5 boys, that all play the fiddle and dance!


Here are some of the glamour shots we took in the gardens. We were just getting Jenny ready for taking senior pictures. By the end she was pretty sick of me and the camera, but we got some great shots!