Where to even begin?  It was AWESOME.  I figured I’d walk you through our vacation as I show you pictures of *some* of the things we did.  And walking is appropriate because we did A LOT of it.

Sunday:

Arrived at La Guardia at 4:10pm.  Picked up bags and enjoyed the drive into Manhattan.  It was drizzly, but warm.

Checked into the hotel, the Westin Times Square.  Awesome location.  Our room was on the 29th floor, and we were greeted with this view:

Attended cocktail party (free liquor!) and then headed out.  We ended up at the Hard Rock in Times Square, which was a mere two blocks away.  Drank some more, headed back to our room.

Monday:  Headed out on the town.  We walked up to Rockefeller Center and decided to buy tickets to Top of the Rock.

It took FOREVER to make it up.  There was lots of standing in line and we were forced to watch a few films, but it was well worth the wait.  The views were AMAZING.

After that, it was getting to be lunch time, so we decided to find a bite to eat.  I had my heart set on a Frozen  Hot Chocolate from Serendipity, so we headed in that direction.  I was thrilled to stumble upon Patsy’s Pizzeria.  SO. DAMN. GOOD.  Serendipity was just across the street, and I’m sad to say it didn’t *quite* live up to my expectations.  Which could have been either because my expectations were set WAY too high or because I was uncomfortably stuffed from the delicious lunch we’d just had.

We left Serendipity and made a stop at Dylan’s Candy Bar where DJ Dylan SCORED some awesome treats.  From there we headed to Central Park where we saw a group of street performers putting on a break dancing/hip hop show.  They were pretty damn impressive, but I was blown away by a little kid who was dancing with them.  Awesome.

We crossed the street and walked through FAO Schwarz and bought some stuff for the boys.  From there we headed to Tiffany’s and looked around.  Then we headed back to the hotel where we stopped at the bar, had a drink and made plans to head out to dinner.  We ended up at Del Frisco’s Steakhouse where DJ and I shared the MOST. AMAZING. FILET. EVER.  It was 26 ounces of BONE IN hand massaged Kobe Beef awesomeness.  We may never eat steak again.  Seriously, it was THAT good.

Tuesday:

We left the hotel at 8:30 for a bus tour of the city.  We stopped at Central Park:

Then we headed downtown where we walked through Little Italy, Chinatown and made a quick trip to the World Trade Center site (post on that to come later).

After that we headed over to Wall Street, which was a ZOO.  We left the tour and walked over to South Street Seaport where we contemplated taking a helicopter tour, but didn’t when we found out it was $137.00 per person for an 8-minute tour.  Instead we signed up for the Circle Line Cruise.

That night we were lucky enough to have the opportunity to meet up with Z & Marinka and a few of my friends from high school who I haven’t seen in 12 years.  It was insane.  And so much fun!  (I’ll get to my bloggy friends in another post as well!)

Wednesday:

We started our day at the Chelsea Piers where we rented shitty clubs and hit some golf balls.  It was fun and the location was pretty cool.

From there we walked to the Village and visited the Friend’s apartment building.

Then we walked through SoHo and over to Little Italy where we stopped and had lunch.

From there we took the subway up to Macy’s and walked around a bit.  But we were exhausted, so we headed back to the hotel and napped.  We went to the group dinner and then, on our last night in New York we walked a few blocks to the Times Square location of Junior’s Cheesecake.  OMG, it was unbelievably good.

Thursday:

We left Manhattan and drove to DC.  We stopped in Philly for lunch at Pat’s King of Steaks.  My first official Philly Cheesesteak lived up to my expectations.

Then we got to Courtney’s and got to spend time with these little ones:

We watched the debate and played the usual drinking games.

Friday:

We traded cityscapes for countryscapes and drove out to Leesburg, VA for some older architecture:

I also had THE MOST AMAZING Ham and Brie sandwich for lunch.  (YES, it IS all about the food!)

That night Court and I ditched the boys and headed out for AllMediocHer ‘08.  It was fabulous.

Saturday:

We packed up the kids and headed out to the middle of nowhere country for a fun fall family adventure.  There were animals, pumpkins, tractors and pig races.  I was bummed Dylan wasn’t there because he would have LOVED it.

On the way back to Court’s we stopped and picked up stuff for dinner and enjoyed a relaxing final evening…

It was a GREAT trip…but it was nice to be home to my boys.  Dylan still tells me constantly that he missed me and Zach is tickled with himself that he “walks”.  He’s getting better at it every day…

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