Monday, December 31, 2007

New York City!

After Christmas Britton, Q, Di Di, Paps, and Kim all drove up to New Jersey to see Kim's grandmother. It was the first time both B and Q had met her. It was a loooooong drive, 855 miles and @ 14 hours in the car, but we all survived and Q did remarkably well! Praise God for the van's DVD player! It was a trip of many firsts for both B and Q. We first went to the Jersey Shore (they don't call it the beach for some weird reason, and you have to pay to actually go onto the sand) and walked on the boardwalk.
Q loved looking at the water and walking on the boardwalk! Here we are with Kim's grandmother. How crazy that in this picture there are four generation of Middleton (Kim's mother's madden name) women represented. P.S. She was trying to push Grandma's wheelchair!

It was B's first time being north of Baltimore, so we took the chance to visit New York City one day. It was so much fun! We took a tour of Yankee Stadium, which is something I would highly recommend for anyone to do if they are up there within the next year (because it is the last year the stadium will be open). We went to monument park, on the field, sat in the dugout, in the locker room, and in the press box. It was simply awesome.
The rest of the day was spend hitting the streets, and subways, of the Big Apple. We went to Time Square, Rockefeller Center, Ground Zero, Battery Park to see the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, and a bunch of other places. This is the cross the was down at Ground Zero after 9/11.
Q even got into the action and met us there later... check her out riding the subway!
In front of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. B isn't too pumped because he has been carrying Q through about a billion people by this point!
All in all, it was a fantastic trip and we were so ready to be home and in our beds by the time it was over.

1 comment:

Deanna said...

Those are some great pictures - and what great memories from that trip. I love that you got to see so many famous things. The pictures with your grandmother are wonderful too. Very cool.

Still can't believe you drove for 14 hours. I've never done anything for 14 hours. Maybe sleep. I remember sleep.