I LOOOVE New York

Labor Day weekend me and 6 of the most fun girls I know left our husbands and kids at home and headed to New York!! Sorry but this post is going to sound like a big love letter but I can't even tell you how much I love these girls and I also don't think I can explain what a total blast we had on this trip! It was everything you hope for when you take a girls trip - constant chatting, laughing, acting like 12-year-olds, eating (for me and Sara at least), telling deep dark secrets, and so much more!


One of my favorite things we did was we ate at a place called "Cafe Lalo", they filmed a scene from "You've Got Mail" there and it was just an adorable little place with awesome food and desserts. All the girls loved the fancy fresh salads and sandwiches they ordered...me and Sara loved our waffles and cinnamon whipped cream.

I think the girls would have known where to find me and Sara if we came up missing:
FAO Schwartz candy bar

Emily, Brittany, Sara, Me, Alyson, Kim, Heather

On Sunday we took the subway to church which was downtown near central park so after church we walked to the park and had a picnic next to a castle!

We did have one scary experience (in my opinion at least!). We stayed at Kim's brother's house in Queens and one night on the way home Kim accidentally had us get off the bus at the wrong gas station. I was already feeling like a big scaredy cat just cause we didn't know where we were but then we looked behind us and realized that this creepy guy that had gotten off the bus at the same time as us was following us!! So we all took off running for what seemed to me like a mile (I am a little out of shape so it was really probably only a couple blocks) and at one point while running my shoe flew off so I bent over to pick it up forgetting that Alyson was running full speed right behind me, pretty sure she almost did a front flip right over my back! But we did eventually make it home safe and sound thanks to Heather and her i-phone.

(Thanks a lot Sunoco - jk)

Another huge highlight was going to Mary Poppins on Broadway!! We all wanted to go to a broadway show while we were there but we went to a booth where they sell Broadway tickets 1/2 off but the tickets were still $75 and we are poor students!! So we were heartbroken but decided not to go, but then when we were at Times Square Brittany and Emily decided to run into the ticket office just for the heck of it and they got us all tickets for $30!!

Eating pizza on the bleachers in the middle of Times Square

We wanted a picture with all of us jumping but our photographer had some timing issues...I thought this one turned out pretty good though, I can't decide which looks cuter - all of us jumping or all of us squatting

We didn't want to stand in line for the ferry so this is as close to the Statue of Liberty as we got

I think that the only fight we got in the whole trip was during a conversation where we were trying to decide what which Disney princess everyone was. It got mostly heated between Snow-Freakin-White and Belle, I was pretty happy with being princess Jasmine after I was so sweetly informed by Alyson that I would NEVER be Tinkerbell!! But then they didn't even have a Jasmine doll in the biggest Toys-R-Us in America so I still felt ripped off.

Our sleeping arangements were awesome we all rotated between the bed, the airmattress, and the single-person-midget-sized-pull-out couch, me and Sara's friendship reached a new level after we slept on the pull-out together. There was nowhere to even take a step when all the beds were set up and there was still not enough room for all 7 of us so apparently Alyson drew the short straw because she ended up sleeping on a mat in the kitchen.

We missed our husbands and kids but I think were all still heartbroken to have to bring our trip to an end. The 6 hour car ride home didn't seem long enough we wanted to spend more time singing things like Celine Dion Songs and Total Eclipse of the Heart together at the top of our lungs. I'll just have to hold out for the 5 year plastics reunion to do it all again I guess!!!

Love ya - Ice Queen, Bibs, Pumpage, Safety, Flow, and Sunoco

Sincerely - Anna