NYC

Joe was working in NYC Sunday - Thursday and I left the kiddos with our fantastic families and headed out of town!  It was a much needed break.  Joe's travel schedule has been bananas the last few months.  We didn't have much of an agenda since this was our 3rd trip together and Joe has been countless times for work.  And honestly, we just didn't have a lot of time to research.  Our biggest priority was sleeping :)

All of these photos were taken with my phone.  I didn't think I was going to need a nicer camera for anything I was seeing... and I was right.

Here is a quick breakdown of what we did (mostly for my memory):

Thursday - I got to hotel around 7:30 pm and Joe had a glass of wine waiting... good man.
Dinner at Anejo and drinks at Long Room and a late night search for pizza that was futile.

Friday - Rockefeller Plaza.  Saw Willie, Meredith, and Al from the Today Show.  Fought some crowds to check out the Lego Store and some Christmas window displays at the fancy department stores.  Got a picture with a greedy Cookie Monster for our little Cookie Monster back home.  Headed over to Brooklyn.  We hadn't had much to eat all day and it was 3 pm.  The pizza at Grimaldi's was epic.  Not sure if was actually epic or if we were starving.  Luckily, we walked back across the bridge to help burn the epic pizza.  Tried to visit the WTC Memorial.  That was an epic adventure of a different sort... as in an epic failure.  Regardless, we headed back to the hotel and then out for dinner at Hudson's Clearwater and drinks at Village Tavern.

Saturday - We didn't plan a ton for this day because the forecast was for snow.  And it did...all... day.... long.  We went to the Meatball Shop for lunch but didn't get too full because we wanted to hit up some places in Chelsea Market.  We shared a sandwich from Num Pang (amazing Cambodian sandwich shop.... wish I could open a local branch).  We did a little shopping and then went to buy tickets for a movie (American Hustle).  The time we wanted was sold out so we had over a hour to kill.  We were in Times Square because only a few theaters were showing this movie.  In our defense, it was STILL snowing outside... so we headed next door to Chevy's.  Yes, we were those people... drinking beer at a ridiculously overpriced chain in Times Square.  I told Joe we needed to pay in cash so it was like we were never there.  He said that if we were paying this much for a couple of beers... he wanted the rewards from the CC company.  HA.   Then we went to THE. BEST. THAI. PLACE.  Pure Thai in Hell's Kitchen.  Amazeballs.  We proceeded to head across the street for a few drinks at a gastropub after dinner.

Sunday we just slept in, and went to lunch down the street from the hotel.  Joe graciously gave me his first class upgrade.  Once again, Good man :)

We were so excited to get home to see the boys!  They were lovingly cared for by multiple family members and had a great time!