Rick and I in New York City

 Since they changed our contract this year, we get

the whole week off for Thanksgiving and I get tortured early mornings

on Tuesdays, but Rick and I found a killer deal to New York and we've never been

so we decided to take the red eye Friday night after I worked all day and came home late 

Tuesday night. We are too old for red eye flights, I felt super puky when I got off the plane and

Rick said welcome to graveyard, that's what he felt for years and years. Anyway we couldn't get

over the amount of police cars there, it was insane and since Trump was Elected for president, the

city is crazy with police and tons of barriers in front of the Trump towers. 

We actually stayed at the Westin in Mid Town Manhattan and it was a perfect spot. We were 

right across the street from the Grand Central Station and took tons of pics of it

because Mia had just finished a novel about it and wanted to show her class.

 Time Square I can't even tell you how cold it was 

I mean insane... 50mph wind ughhhhhh

I survived but I think cold is my hell .

 we ate desserts every single day and even more than once

a day.... cookies, cupcakes, you name it, we ate it. YUM

 We took the ferry to see the Statue of Liberty and 

it was sooo cold.

 The first day was in the 50's so we went to Central Park and

rode bikes around the whole thing which was 7 miles and walked 10 and this 

was the day we were on the red eye so we were trucking away..

 Stock Market

 More treats

 Brooklyn Bridge: we walked across it and then ate at 

the original Gremaldi's. It was super fun and cold. haha

 Riding bikes

 Trump towers

 collectiing leaves in Central Park

 view from hotel

 famous Macy's

 we realized how our selfies are just not cute haha

 we absolutely loved riding the Subway we took it everywhere

it was awesome!

our favorite thing was the 9/11 memorial and 

the Twin Towers memorial. We were able to find 

Rick's mentor's brother and read about how he helped rescue the kids

from the daycare, called his brother to tell him he was safe, and then the second plane hit and

he died. I couldn't be next to Rick in the memorial, it was just too emotional. They did

an amazing job of making it personal for the 2,000 plus who lost their lives. 

We had a great time, walked over 30 miles at least, froze to death, I told Rick he didn't even need to 

feed me food just desserts, saw some cool sites, and definitely want to bring the kids with us next time.