The Airport! Me and Chan above, me and Linds below.. riding the plane.. stoked for NYC!
The sleeping masks.. very entertaining. We were a very loud group on the plane! I'm sure all the people who just wanted to sleep on the Red Eye flight weren't very happy!
Soooo tired. We arrived at like 4 am!
My roomies:)
First day out. Sporting our All-A-Dollar hats we bought together before the trip!
Berkley, me and Bri! My junior buddies!
Showing our state rings the city:)
Me and Linds snapped a pic with this guy in the vendor booth. These like booths were everywhere!
We shared a breakfast the first day.. yeah the new york rations are crazy! One sip of OJ each!
Hahha this crazy bear statue we found! We had a lot of fun posing for pictures with it!
Me, Angie, and Bri riding the subway to the Yankees game!
Yankees Stadium!! Yea buddy!
We had awful seats on the bleachers right in the sun.. it was still a blast! We moved up to some empty cooler seats eventually!
Lindsey, Me, Chan, Bri, and Anna!
The Yankees Field! So awesome!!
We were all so tired! Everyone was falling asleep during the game! It was classic. It was seriously the longest day of my life! It felt like we had already been in New York for a week and it had been one day!
Me and Angie were the only HP fans who wanted to go look at this huge poster! I wish i could go to hogwarts...
Times Square before dinner at an Italian place called Carmines!
Bri, Me and Berk at dinner! We ate sooo much Italian food during the trip!
Yeah previously.. hahah while we waited outside for dinner, our appetizer was some guys leftovers he gave us! Sketchy.. but we were starving!!
Just posing on some metal pole things!
We met some VERY interesting people on the subways. Of course we weren't afraid to talk to them! hahah here is chandler meeting a crazy guy named Yacko! Lindsey was even kissed on the cheek by a homeless man!
The next morning we woke up and had a contemporary class! Here we are heading on the subway to class! It was an unreal experience to go to dance classes in NYC! It was soo fun and i loved it!
Some more subway stalking.. it became our subway entertainment.
And again..
We probably took the most pictures on the subway so it seems like we rode it a lot, and we did, but we walked SO much! My feet were killing by the end of each day!
Me and Bri with her signature pose!
The World Trade Center Memorial! The construction site where the twin towers used to stand!
Me and Bri at the World Trade Center Memorial!
Me, Linds, Chan, Anna and Cecily outside of the NYC Ballet Theatre! Turns out we thought we had tickets for Thursday night, but they were for Friday! So we had a little photoshoot for fun, and then left! Haha
Too tired to stand and wait for the subway...
Since we couldn't go to the ballet we went to a famous cafe called Serendipity! It was delicious!
It is famous for it's 'Frozen Hot Chocolate.' It doesn't sound that good but it was INCREDIBLE.
Yes i had a whole one to myself and i ate the whole thing!
You can see from this picture how big the desserts really were!
After serendipity we met up with the rest of the team to go to the Empire State Building!
Here's most of the group!
This was the coolest picture i could capture with my camera! hahah i had never been up to the Empire State Building so it was really awesome to go! I loved it!
Me, Linds, and Chan made friends with this sax player on top of the Empire State Building. There is this hilarious you tube video called sexy sax man that we love and after we met this sax player we would ask every sax player to play the George Michael song- Careless Whipser! But we didn't know the name so we would sing the tune and they would recognize it and play it! We took videos with each sax player we met! It was pretty hilarious!
Our 'Empire State Building Picture' that i got in trouble for taking a picture of it! Hahah because of course they just want you to buy it!
This is the studio called Steps on Broadway that we would take our classes at!
Here's me, linds, bri, and berk walking to our second day of class.. hip hop class!
Here's the whole group with our insane instructor!! It was a really fun class!
After we went to the Grand Central Station to do a flash mob! We went right in the center of the station, spread out and then our captain Angie shouted 5 6 7 8 and we all broke out dancing the hip hop dance we had just learned in class! It was sooo funny!
Later that day, me, Berk, Anna, and Linds went to the Manhattan Temple to do baptisms for the dead!
It was such a neat opportunity even though we were practically falling asleep all during confirmations because we were so tired! I love this picture of all of us:) I also got to go back to the temple on Sunday for church with Spencer!
We had to walk like 15 blocks to find a hamburger place! We were sooo sick of Italian food! haha but we hit the jack pot with 'Goodburger, Home of the Goodburger..." Who would've thought?!
After we hit up some frozen yogurt!!
That night we ate at this Indian Restaurant! It was pretty good but kinda sketchy as we were the only people in the restaurant!!
This time we went to the ballet for reals! :) It was one of the best things we went to in New York! I'm so glad i went! It was an amazing production! After dancing on pointe so much this year i felt like i could truly appreciate how good the dancers were! We were all amazed!
After the ballet we went to a famous cheesecake place called Roxy! Me and linds shared this HUGE piece of oreo cheesecake! Yummmmy!
And yet again... another crazy homeless guy! If you put money in his cup he would move and dance!
Our third class was a Broadway class with the lead chimney sweep from Mary Poppins! He taught us real choreography from the number Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious! It wasn't my favorite class, but it was still a really neat opportunity!
Even earlier before the broadway class, me, chan, anna, and linds woke up at like 5 to go visit 'Carlos Bake Shop' from the TV show 'Cake Boss.' The shop was right over the New Jersey border! Here are some of the amazing cakes they make!
Here we are in front of the shop! We even bought some pastries which were delicious!
After class that day we went to Canal Street and did a lot of little shopping and bargaining! Here me and anna are with our subway food that we brought into a Chinese restaurant that the others wanted to eat at! Haha it was pretty funny!
So we did a lot of shopping in New York and i did buy a lot, BUT this picture is a joke! Haha i was teasing Lindsey because her mom spoiled her and pretty much bought everything she wanted so here i am holding some of her bags to make it look like i got more than her for once!
Yes.. this is a subway floor we sat on. Our feet would hurt soooo bad that we craved elevating our feet. So here we are elevating our feet!
Saturday Night half of us went to see Mary Poppins, and the other half went to Mamma Mia! I went to Mary Poppins!
It was a really fun show but also very hard to stay awake in! Haha
We also visited the M&M Factory!
More interesting surprises on the subway!
Times Square!
Sunday was the best day because i spent the whole day with Spen, Diana, and their kids! Me, Spen, Hudson, Owen, and Sophia went to church! Shem and Riss were both getting over some sickness! :( I fell in LOVE with Sophia! She had changed the most since i'd seen them all last! She loved to smile for the camera!
The kids had a lot of fun taking turns trying out my camera! I love this picture with the shem and riss doing Egyptian like hands! They were learning how to draw lots of Egyptian things out of a book! They were really good at it too!
Hudson and Owen had the cutest little sunday outfits! I loved the bow ties!
More camera fun! Shem was sooo funny! He was posing Hudson for this picture with this book! He was telling him how to hold it and how to sit!
More Camera fun!
This was my first time seeing London Chloe! Number 6 for the Marsdinis! I felt privileged to be the first family member to see her! Here she is with a cute bow Ray sent for her!
Here's the whole crew! Spen looked at this picture and said like he finally realized: "We have a lot of kids!"
Here are pictures of how they fit all 6 kids in a two bedroom apartment! Two bunkbeds with a portacrib in one room and a make shift room for London! I thought the house was really cute!! I loved the kids room!
Their cool motorcycle faces! Thanks to shae for these cool motorcycle toys!
Me and the Boys! :) They loved this sweet bubble gun i brought them! It was so fun to spend the day with them!
I love this picture! This shows the beautiful view they have right outside their living room window! It was so hot so Sophia just chilled in her diaper! :)
More classes Monday morning!
All showered and ready for our last day in New York!
We spent our last day in central park! It was a beautiful day!
Eating Ice Cream in the Park!
Sad to leave New York! Last subway ride!
Our home! We had to take a picture by 51 Street because that was our home and our subway stop! We felt like we lived there for years! Hahah the Marriott Courtyard inbetween 51st and 52nd street on 3rd Avenue!! Such fun trip! It was my fourth time to New York, but my first time being a real tourist! I loved it :)
