Then the next day, we took the metro to downtown D.C. Jake had never been there, and I lived there for a year when I was 20-21. Aside from Kauai, it's my FAVORITE place! I love that city. It is so patriotic and beautiful! I have so many awesome memories from living there. The church is SO strong there as well, which makes it that much better. The National Gallery of Art is my favorite Smithsonian. Just go there and you will see why........
Washington Monument
Yes, to many of you that's the "Forest Gump" pond, where he runs to Jenny! It's called the reflection pond. :)
Vietnam Soldiers memorial
Vietnam Wall Monument. It's an amazing sight to see all the names. It goes on forever!
Abraham Lincoln. Yes, I have read all the walls. :)
Korean War Memorial. We also went to the National Gallery of Art, American History Museum, Natural History Museum, and the National Archives Building(where the constitution is). It was all heavenly!
New York! Radio City, Times Square, and the unlit Rockefeller tree
The highlight for me was seeing "WICKED"! It was amazing! I have a couple versions of defying gravity on the blog! :)
My parents and I in "Little Italy" at a yummy restaurant. The Italian men were very touchy. Haha! Then we met Jake at the Empire State building. It was way cool! Then we went to Rockefeller center again, St. Patrick's cathedral and F.A.O Schwartz. Amazing!
The New York skyline. To the left was the Twin Towers. You can kinda see the crane where they are being rebuilt. Then off to Lady Liberty and Ellis Island. Much smaller in person.
Two ABSOLUTE musts are Central Park and Ray's pizza. We went to Ray's twice in 4 days. Jake and I have decided that Utah has NO idea how to make good pizza. Rays= YUM! Doesn't it just look perfect?????
SO we had a blast with my parents. IT was a great UNrelaxing trip. We did a heck of a lot in 6 days. It was good to see "my" city and to experience the Big Apple! We will definitely will be going again. But not anytime soon. Unless someone surprises me with "WICKED" tickets again! :) tee-hee.
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Amazingly fun to see these pictures! Awesome!! I'm so glad you had a great time!
Thanks Rach. It was fun!
What an amazing trip! I want to see it all. Central Park looks so pretty and that pizza looks dang good, pizza is one of my favorite foods! You look so cute in the pics, thanks for sharing!
Ahh, Tibby, you would LOVE it all! One day we will do a girl's trip there, just for all the broadway shows. :)
sounds so fun! we're planning a trip there this coming fall! :) PS I LOVE LOVE LOVE your new family picture! you all look so beautiful! :)
Ahhh, thanks Bre! You will have a blast in NY.! It is a great city!
You SUCK! Not only because you ate that amazing pizza without me, but because you saw Favre play!! (I still love you though!) :)
Next time, I'm bringing you with my Hoki!
What I fun trip! If you come down and visit us next week you can see Wicked again! It opened in Albuquerque this week. We're going to see it on the 3rd.
Hey Emily-it was so much fun hanging out with you guys at the wedding festivities! You guys are so awesome! What a fun family!! I saw your blog off of Tibett's and just thought I would say HI!
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