Twilight Saga: Eclipse

The evening of June 29 was the big Twilight party! Lots of great people combined with some fun snack food while watching a silly chick flick equals a great party! I don't have any pictures of the food yet (I managed to forget to take any, but my wonderful sister got some... I will post those later) but a few of the things we had were blood rimmed glasses, test tubes full of 'blood', kibble, dog treats, and cake balls. I will post pictures as soon as I can.

The pictures I do have is of everyone posing with their favorite team... aka Team Jacob or Team Edward. I have only posted one of everyone but have a few different posses per person so let me know if you want a copy of all your pictures. They are pretty cute, I just love the cardboard cutouts. If it wasn't for the glare they would be perfect!

This was such a fun night! For those of you who were not able to make it, there will be repeat of the evening when the first Breaking Dawn coming out in November 2011. I will send out emails once it is closer so make sure you let me know if you want to go!

Thank you to all of you who came, this really was a fun night!

Heading Home

Day 4!

Day 4 started out with a nice bike ride through Central Park. We rented some bikes out of a van and went on a hot bike ride. With this humidity we were so sweaty riding around. You will notice the pictures from this trip do not include us as that is not appropriate for a family friendly blog (lol).








Our bikes in front of the fountain I can't remember nor pronounce the name of.







The stair case by the mysterious fountain. We later found out that this stair case is also an amazing bridge with beautiful artwork. We didn't get any pictures with the phone so this post won't include any of those pics.







After our hot bike ride in the park we met up with Trent's cousin Jason. He taught us how to ride the subway and we ventured our way to the Statue of Liberty. If you buy a day subway pass you can ride the Staten Island Ferry for free. So that is exactly what we did! We got fairly close Lady Liberty and was able to spend time chatting it up with Jason.

Since we have been here the best food we had eaten up to that point was a grilled cheese sandwich. Sad, I know! Luckily Jason was able to suggest and direct us to a lot of great places to eat. One place Jason suggested was also a place one of our tour guides suggested, Grimaldi's Pizzeria in Brooklyn. This is a very popular pizza joint and the wait can get up to several hours long any day of the week. Our tour guide, a New York native, knew a great little secret, the owner of Grimaldi's also owns Ignazio's which is just around the corner. So around the corner we walked and sat right down and had delicious pizza.







This is the Brooklyn Bridge, also the view from our table at Ignazio's.








Our drinks came in these little 8oz glass bottles. Very cute but for $2 I would rather have a plastic cup with more than 8oz's.







This is our delicious pizza! Thank you Jason for helping us get to Brooklyn and back on the subway!







After pizza we walked down to the pier where Jason said was a great ice cream place. We got some wonderful ice cream an just enjoyed the view of the city. Here are some pics.





















This is the more commonly known pizza place.







And this is it's line. And this isn't even the end of the line, it keeps going!!!!!







Trent and I riding the subway back to our hotel.







The subway!


Day 5!

So to end our trip, we took a guided tour on a rickshaw around Central Park. We got so see where the popular movies were filmed in the park.







Us by the mysterious fountain again. You would think by know I would have learned how to say it. Well when your tour guide has a thick accent it is hard to understand the correct pronunciation.







After the park we made our way to the Guggenheim.







The structure of the building was stunning. As for the art inside, you have to really love modern art to fully enjoy the exhibits. Things were fairly extreme and in my opinion, a little weird. I love art but I have a hard time looking at photography that has no artistic value but is classified as art. I guess I don't like looking at picture and thinking I could do better. I want my pictures displayed there!







After the Guggenheim we went to The Burger Joint (another suggestion from Jason) and had lunch. It was a great lunch! Now we are headed back to the airport and will be back home tonight.







Anyone who would like to see more pictures come on over this week and we can go through them.


Until Next Time ...

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New York Day 3

Day 3! We managed to wake up at a more decent hour and hopped on our tour bus. We road it around uptown Manhattan and got off at The Met. Can I just say that is a massive museum! We spent an hour and a half walking around and probably only saw a quarter of it. We were trying to waste time so we could go on a guided tour but after walking around our feet couldn't take anymore. I don't think I have ever done this much walking in my life. We have both developed shin-splints in our legs from all the walking and if we sit too long we both look like gimps as our muscles re-adjust to walking.

I just cannot believe how much there is to see here! The tour is nice to drive around and get a chance to see everything from afar, but we are only going to get to see a few things up close. It is just a little bit overwhelming for an extended weekend trip.

Well here are some pictures, enjoy!




This is how much it cost us per person to see Despicable Me in 3-D. Crazy, but a great movie!






On our tour with our ponchos. It decided to rain on us.






Us at the Met.





This is a turkey sandwich from the Carnegie Deli! There is about 4 inches of meat and about a half inch of bread! The table next to us got a turkey and pastrami sandwich and it was about 10 inches tall, no joke!!!!


Up next on New York Day 4, Central Park and The Circle Line boat tour.

Until Next Time...


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New York Is Awesome

So we got into New York at about 5:30 pm last night and after dumping our bags at the hotel we headed out in the city in search of some food. We walked up to Central Park and around until we found a little pizza place. After, we found ourselves in Times Square where we had dessert at Roxy's Deli. As we left Roxy's we were stopped by this Scottish salesman who effectively sold us tickets to a live comedy show. He talked to us for a good 10 minutes and was very entertaining.

Today we accidentally slept until about noon wasting half of our day. Once we got up and going we ventured back to Times Square to hop on a tour bus. We went down town and got off at the World Trade Center. We walked around Battery Park and saw the Statue of Liberty from afar. As we slept a good portion of the day we were too late to catch a ferry to see it up close and personal.

On our way back to our hotel we stopped at the Rockefeller Center to overlook the city. It was a beautiful sight and we are going back tonight to see the evening view as well.

We just ate dinner and are off to our comedy show. Below are some pictures from last night and today. I will add the night picture of the city later tonight!










































Until next time...

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