New York City and the Mets!

This past weekend Corey, Cooper and I headed to New York City for a three day weekend. We drove up Friday morning and did not hit any traffic (I know it's hard to believe!) and arrived at our hotel around noon. Cooper did great with the ride, but then again I was in the backseat the entire time entertaining him. We stayed for free, nada, zip at the Crown Plaza in Times Square - see there are perks to Corey traveling to London. We had a corner room on the 24th floor courtesy of the hotel manager that fell in love with Cooper. One side of our room over looked Times Square and the other side looked out onto the Hudson River. It was awesome!

Here is the view of Times Square from our room and a picture of Cooper relaxing on the bed.

After settling in the room and grabbing a hot dog from the street vendor we headed to Battery Park to catch the Statue Cruise ferry. We took the ferry to Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty and to Ellis Island. Very cool experience. We definitely want to go back when we have more time and the names of our ancestors to research.

Friday night we ate at Becco. Corey and I both ordered the special for the night which was roma tomatoes and fresh mozzarella, caesar salad, and table side service for three of their favorite pastas (garlic and pesto penne, lobster and shrimp pasta and spinach ravioli). YUMMY!!! The food and service were excellent and the prices were very reasonable! If you are ever in NYC and want great Italian we would definitely recommend this place!

Saturday was the highlight of the weekend for Corey! We had tickets to the 2nd to last Mets game at Shea Stadium. Corey wanted to make sure Cooper got to experience a Mets game at Shea - even if he is only 3 months old! We will have pictures to show him when he gets older of his first and last Mets game at Shea! Cooper slept the entire game! He's such a good baby! He was also the star of the game - we had our picture taken by like 10 people because they thought he was so cute in his Mets gear. Santana pitched an awesome game and the Mets won!! Yippee!

Next year we will have to take him to Citi Field (just doesn't have the same ring or emotion as Shea).

Saturday night we grabbed some good ole' NY pizza for dinner and took Cooper to the hotel pool!

On Sunday we got up early and visited the M&M's, Hershey's and Toys-R-Us stores before heading home.

It was an awesome weekend!!! Can't wait to go back!