Holding Family Blog: April 2010

Paul had to go to New Jersey and Long Island on business at the end of March, and we thought it would be a GREAT idea to go up the weekend before his business meetings and spend the weekend in New York City (BONUS: we were leaving on my birthday - so I would get to spend my birthday WEEKEND in New York!)!

we should have just stayed home.

I had been home with Lexi, who had the stomach flu, Wednesday and Thursday but we were still confident that she was well enough for us to leave town Friday afternoon. Lexi went to Nana and Papa Dunaway's and Mommy and Daddy were off for our first non-Lexi vacation!

when we got to the airport for our 1 pm flight we found out it had been delayed 2 hours, subsequently causing us to need to rebook flights so we could make another connecting flight into NYC from Atlanta. We waited in the Wichita airport for over 2 hours with NOTHING to do.

When we got to Atlanta, things starting going downhill - Paul got the stomach flu while we were on board our flight from Atlanta to New York. We made it, (with only minimal sickness and whole lot of tears) finally, to New York around 1 am. Happy Birthday, indeed.

After a speedy (wow, those cabbies drive fast!) trip across several boroughs, we made it to our hotel around 2 am.

The next morning, Paul was feeling a little better but I was starting to feel less than amazing. We still ventured out on a very cold windy morning to see what we could make of the big city! We were able to see Central Park, 5th Avenue, and Times Square before I admitted defeat and returned to our hotel, having come down with the stomach flu myself.

I was sick most of the day Saturday, and Sunday morning but was able to pull it together for one last attempt at sightseeing. We were able to wander around Manhattan (our hotel was in a great location on 6th Avenue) seeing much of what we did the previous day, including Bryant Park and Rockefeller Center.

I had a hard time with the air - it seemed like everyone smoked, the street vendor carts stunk, and there were too many different people who had not been introduced to deodorant yet. Other than that, we were overwhelmed by the building heights and number of languages we heard being spoken. We didn't shop because the heat in the stores made me sick (this is maybe the most tragic of all, I know!).

Coming home was even eventful - My flight home Monday got delayed for over an hour because there was GUM on a seat! Seriously???

Paul had it worse - his flight was supposed to arrive Tuesday evening, but continued to get delayed until it was finally canceled around 11 pm and re-booked and rerouted for Wednesday morning.

We doubt we will be vacationing again very soon, but here are the very few pictures we took while we were in NYC!