{J & M}: New York City

For most of my life my dad and brother have gone on guys hunting trips. Whether these were just camping for a weekend or a whole week in Canada, they were guys only! Not that we really wanted to go with them haha. So we always thought the sound of a girls only trip would be great. We finally were able to go just a week ago. My mom, sister-in-law, Dayna, and I could not wait to leave for our fun weekend. We had so many things planned that we wanted to do. I took way too many pictures so I am just going to have to choose my favorites or this blog post would go on forever. I had so much fun with just my mom and Dayna. We definitely shopped 'til we dropped! By the end of the day our legs were numb and we loved it. Walking 10+ miles a day will do that to you!

DAY ONE...

We arrived around 5 or 6pm Thursday night. So we took a nice stroll through times square and grabbed some dinner. Nothing too eventful.

DAY TWO...

We woke up bright and early and went to the Today show! It was a blast for a few reasons...First of all, we were on TV!! Wahoo! We looked like dorks but we felt special ;) We also got to see Jason Mraz and Christina Perri perform live and they were really good. And we got to meet everyone who is apart of the show. We love AL!!!

AL!!!

After the Today show ended around 9 we quickly grabbed breakfast and were off to shop! After shopping for a bit we headed to Little Italy. My Aunt and Uncle told us how great Lombardi's was so we thought we'd give it a try. It was delicious!! The best meatballs I've ever had by far!

Gelato in Little Italy is a must ;)

We then headed back to our hotel to get ready for our show that night. It was called "Nice Work if You Can Get It" It's Matthew Broderick's play and he acts as the lead roll. It was really fun to watch him in it and he was pretty funny too. After the play is over the cast comes out to sign your program if you want. We were so excited to meet Matthew Broderick but.....when he came out he didn't show a single ounce of happiness! I was so mad at him. He only had to stand out there for ten minutes tops and he couldn't show a single smile to anyone! What a jerk! He was so rude to us. I don't care if you're tired or had a bad day. That's your job, we all paid to see you so you can be nice to us for just a minute and then be on your way. Lame! (Sorry for my venting haha)

Such a fake half smile

How he was really feeling and acted....

We all can't stop laughing at this picture now. My mom could barley make it in the photo cause he was being so rude. Matthew looks like he wants to kill us!! haha

DAY THREE...

(I took so many pictures this day it was hard to choose from! I don't know why these ones are looking so weird) After walking down 5th Avenue and looking at all the high-end stores we headed to Central Park. This is one of my favorite things to do in New York! We have a guy drive us around on his bike through the park. The park is huge! We didn't even see the whole thing and we went through 6 miles of it! It's so fun to see where so many movies were filmed and all of the cool street dancers. Central Park is my favorite!

The Friends Fountain ;)

The biggest toy store! It was amazing! We spent almost 2 hours inside..whoops.

Found the Temple ;)

Of course we had to go to Serendipity for some Frozen Hot Chocolate. Yum!

DAY FOUR...

We started out this day with a tour and ground zero. It was amazing to see what they have done with it. They have made two giant pools in the footprints where the twin towers were and also built a new building to replace the two. It was such a sad feeling being there. You just see name after name of those whose lives where taken because of that day.