I Took My First Bite of the Big Apple

I blogged this big blog about life since we got back from our last trip and went to publish it (we still have dial-up) and it fizzled and died. I hate it when that happens. So, I'm missing some stuff that was probably blog-worthy, but I'm here now to tell the tales of NYC.

My mom, Dee (who we all call Mama Dee), came up from Little Rock last Thursday, June 17, and after work we jotted up to XNA to fly to NYC. Christian has 40 mandatory hours of CPE classes as a CPA that he has to fulfill every year to keep his CPA current, so this year his firm sent him to The Big Apple. Not too bad at all!

So, with two nights of free hotels and one free plane ticket, the three of us got a little trip together to make a weekend out of it! Other than our plane being delayed five hours and getting into NYC at 3:00am, our trip got off to a great start. We hit the ground running Friday morning and did Times Square, saw Biff Henderson of the David Letterman Show, saw a Broadway show, ate a $20 cheeseburger, etc. (TOURISTS! I guess you have to see it all at least once, eh?)

The show was a blast. We saw Thoroughly Modern Milly on Broadway and it was entertaining. Story line: it was about a girl who comes from Kansas to make it big and her pursuit of success, love, and life. It was great and we enjoyed it. The best of the best perform there and you could tell.

We saw the Brooklyn Bridge, Greenwich Village, went to the Metropolitan Museum, took a horse and carriage ride through Central park (at mom's request of the two things she wanted to do while we were there), Empire State Building, Battery Park, Statue of Liberty, Ground Zero, yadda, yadda, yadda...we just went and went. We did stop, however for RCV to go to ESPN Zone to catch the last few innings of the College World Series for the AR/AZ game. I think it's safe to saw that we were definitely the only ones there to catch that game... Hey, a fan is a fan is a fan, right?

My mom got pulled aside by a cop when she was looking at buying a knock-off Gucci watch from a street vendor. She was mortified. It was so hard not to laugh because she was just too innocent about the whole thing. She bought it for $15 later! No worries.

We had reservations for Tavern on the Green for brunch on Sunday morning. That was good to do something special with mom on Father's Day. The last time she went to NY it was with my Dad, like over 10 years ago or something. So, I'm glad that worked out. It was special.

Welp, that's all I've got for now. I had a wreck last week and got a mad case of whiplash. No worries...I'm doing neck rolls and taking big fat muscle relaxers so I'm actually doing great.