Our trip began on a Wednesday June 26th, 2013. The way I decided to book the trip was to travel to New York first. I figured this would help us in two ways. The flights overseas were much less expensive than flying from Las Vegas, and I figured with small children this would give us a little "break" from the long flights we had ahead of us.
Our first flight was quite early, and we ended up getting to our hotel before we could actually check in. We had left early in the morning, and we were all REALLY tired, but we decided to head to the Empire State Building to check it out while we waited. It was walking distance from our hotel, which is one of the main reasons I booked it. Connor was dreaming of seeing the Empire state building, and really wanted to go up it. So everyone, including Brian, was a trooper and we started walking. We stopped for a little sugar energy though!
Here we go!
Much needed ENERGY!!!
Connor was a little more excited than Aaron.
Aaron was more excited about the icees!!
Connor REALLY loved this model of the Empire State Building.
We got him a camera for the trip so that he could take his own pictures.
Not sure Maya was as excited about the trip either.
We made it to the TOP!!!!
Connor was so excited.
So after making it to the top of the Empire State building we headed back to our hotel. We still had to wait another 45 minutes or so until our room was open, and with the time change we were getting really tired. Finally it came time to get our room, and the front desk clerk gave us a big smile. She said, I hope it's ok, but we have had a family room come open, and we'd love to upgrade you for free today! We were all OVERJOYED!!! We couldn't believe it. New York hotel rooms I've stayed in were always very small, and this room was at least twice the size I've ever seen. On top of it, there were BUNK BEDS!!!! The kids were in heaven.
So we got into our room around 3pm or so, and we all were so tired we fell asleep. Brian and I woke up around 8pm and we couldn't believe we slept so long. We were thinking about walking to Times Square that evening. We whispered to each other, and decided that we were tired enough to go back to sleep. We all slept until the morning and felt GREAT! I was so thankful that the kids slept the whole night.
The next day we planned on taking the kids to ground zero and to get some super good pizza at a place we had eaten at our last visit to New York before flying to London that evening. As we are packing up I got a call from my sister that Brody, our dog had gotten out. At that time it was too early to call the Animal Control, so I decided not to tell Brian yet.
As we were walking to 911 ground zero I got a call from the Animal Shelter that they had Brody. That was a relief. Brian was shocked when I told him, so I'm glad I didn't worry him at that point. He was dealing with driving through New York and the humid heat.
We arrived at the memorial and it was incredible.
We couldn't park close to the pizza place so we just stopped at the first pizza place we could find. Connor was so impressed he still tells everyone that the best pizza is in New York.
We headed to the airport where we were offered $500/ticket to stay one more night and fly out the next day. Maybe we should have taken it, but at that point we thought it was a miracle we had made it that far, plus trying to coordinate it with Thomas and Courtney who were picking us up in London, we weren't sure if we could swing it. Maybe we could have, but we will never know.
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