NYC 2009 - Summary

September 21st - 23rd we headed up to New York City for a fun weekend with Aaron & Brooke. This was Aaron's first trip to NYC - we took the country boy to the city and he survived! =)
We did all of the normal NYC tourist attractions: Ground Zero, Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island, Battery Park, Empire State Building, Times Square, ToysRUs, M&M & Hershey Shops, the Subway and of course the brand new CitiFIELD.
Statue of Liberty

Battery Park

Get your mind out of the gutter people - those are eye balls. Haha! Corey and Aaron thought this was hilarious since they looked so much like...I don't think I have to say. So they just had to take a suggestive picture!

Empire State Building

Aaron, Cooper and me on top of the Empire State Building

View of NYC skyline from the Empire State Building

Times Square

Times Square at Night - Aaron & Corey went bar hopping in Manhattan; while Brooke, Cooper and I went to bed (so much for the city that never sleeps).

Elmo was even in NYC for the weekend - Cooper spotted him instantly!

CitiFIELD
The main reason for our trip was to see the METS and Phillies play and experience the new stadium. As most or all of you are aware I lose my husband every night around 7 pm for the METS games - he is a fanatic and severely suffering this season since everyone from the Mets starting roster is injured! Aaron is a huge Phillies fan so he loved that the Phillies whipped up on the Mets.CitiFIELD is absolutely gorgeous and luxurious. Cooper fell asleep during the first inning so Cooper and I headed to the air conditioned Caesar Club House and watched the game sitting on the comfy couches. It was rough let me tell you - haha! Corey, Aaron & Brooke enjoyed the game in our seats - there is not a bad seat in the stadium.

The other highlight of the weekend was finding our brick at CitiFIELD fan walk!

Corey pointed to our brick!

We had a great weekend! I love our annual trips to NYC - it's a great place to visit but I would never want to live there!

Whirlwind

We are back from NYC - we had a wonderful time! I promise to post more details and pictures later - when things slow down a bit.

The post is titled whirlwind for a reason...

The month of August has been very busy for us and has no plans of slowing down for a while. Last week Corey was in London - so I played single mom for a couple of days. Then on Friday we headed to NYC for a fun weekend with Aaron and Brooke. Tomorrow I fly out to San Diego for a couple of days for work. Busy! Busy! Busy! Here is a sneak peak of our trip.

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!