NYC

{May 2nd - 5th}

My parents kept the boys while we took a long weekend trip to NYC with some friends of ours and we had a blast!

We had 4 full days there and really loved the city!

We packed our days totally full with the exception of the last day, when it poured rain all day.

Our first afternoon there, we just walked around and started checking out sites.

We had lunch up at the food court at the Plaza hotel and then walked down 5th Avenue.

Here is our stop at St. Patrick's Cathedral

Times Square

We got changed and took the train over to Brooklyn.
We walked around Williamsburg for awhile (where my brother lives) and had reservations at Peter Lugar's steakhouse.
This was Brian's NYC bucket list item and it was great!

The next day we got up, ran through Central Park and then hit all the sites.

We walked down the Highline Canal, had lunch at Los Tacos in Chelsea Market (this was my favorite area) and then walked over the 9/11 memorial and museum (incredible!!)

From here, we rented bikes and rode over to the Brooklyn Bridge.

(worst idea ever!  there was a ton of construction so very little designated bike paths and we almost gone run over several times)

Walked up to the middle of Brooklyn Bridge...

Realized we didn't see the Oculus, so went back over near the 9/11 memorial.

After this, we went to eat dinner in Little Italy (our favorite meal of the weekend!!) and then Brian and I met up with my brother Jeremy and his girlfriend for a comedy show in the West Village.

We thought we'd be able to catch a cab but never saw one and ended up running a mile and a half over to barely make the start.

We got drinks afterwards and then went to our hotel to crash.

We ran/walked 15 miles this day!

The 3rd day we hit up several more tourist spots... 

The Top of the Rock, Grand Central Terminal, had awesome Ramen before our show and then...

HAMILTON!

My NYC bucket list item.

It was amazing.  So So amazing, it was 3 hrs long and I literally did not want it to end!

Our last day was kind of bust due to the pouring rain.

We browsed around a little and then hit up the museum of Nature and Science.

Brian and I ended up back at the hotel in the afternoon and had a good nap!

Trying to take a pic next to the largest found dinosaur for the boys

We met up with both of my brothers for dinner at another awesome restaurant that night.

Such a fun weekend with friends and a bonus that I got to see Kyle, Jeremy, and Amanda as well.

Definitely will be back!