I'm in a New York State of Mind

Actually this blog post should be entitled "when you get caught between the moon and New York City" because that song was stuck in my mind the entire weekend (just ask Megan)--it just doesn't fit with the weekend though, so the other will have to do.

This past weekend I got away. My mom and Nan flew to NYC to see Megan and since I'm so close, I decided to go too. Matt had the kids from Thursday afternoon til Sunday afternoon. It was SO great to get away, SO great to be with Mom, Nan, and Meg, and then SO great to come home. Sounds pretty perfect if you ask me.

We did so much, I'll summarize as best I can. Let's roll.

REGIS AND KELLY

Megan's friend works for Good Morning America and was able to get us VIP tickets to Regis and Kelly. SO FUN! The whole experience was just really cool. The studio is smaller than you would guess and it was fun to see all the behind the scenes stuff happening while Regis and Kelly were just doing their thing. I was sad to not win the audience prize but excited that my sister saw us on TV four different times.

We got to see James Marsden and the 3 finalist from Project Runway. After our show, they filmed 2 segments for future shows, so we stuck around and got to see a cooking segment with chef Jamie Oliver and then an interview with Mariah Carey. My celebrity connections are out of control!

We are stoked, can't you tell!

Nan's clothes even matched the set. (not surprising) :)
Regis and Kelly with James Marsden
(this is when I was wishing for a nicer camera. My non flash photography left me with lots of blury pictures)
Mariah...the diva indeed. Her segment will air in a few weeks. I would have never guessed that someone would need so much pampering during a commercial break, after having only been on air like 3 minutes. Who knew?

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

We only were here for about 30 minutes, but this museum alone made me feel like I need to get brave and actually come to NYC as a whole family. The kids would have loved it, biggest kid of all being Matt.

CITY BUS TOUR

I wouldn't have thought of doing this, but it was a lot of fun. We saw lots of stuff in not a lot of time and got a better feel for the city as a whole. Plus 2 of our 3 tour guides were so funny. We're still hoping that #3 is having a better day. It was on our bus tour near Greenwich Village that our driver started shouting like a lunatic that 'Tony Soprano was in the jeep'. Then he followed an SUV and I am now able to say I have seen James Gandolfini driving his SUV--and that he looked 'thrilled' to see me.

A cold day on the upper deck--gotta love the clear plastic covering.

A rare group shot
Nan is so funny. The wind was CRAZY cold on this tour at the start. In the blink of an eye, Nan became a New York celebrity--hair covered, sunglasses, scarve. I'm sure we missed out on some valuable NY information from our tour guide because we all just kept laughing at Nan and her scarf blowing in the wind.


SOUTH PACIFIC
Nan was excited to see South Pacific and I was excited to go to a show. I didn't remember the story line of South Pacific at all. None of it came back to me while we were watching it, but it was fun. It was a really fun show, but it was also a wierd show.

LOTS OF FOOD
Crepes on Columbus, Sara Beths, A Salt & Battery (fish and chips), Levaines Bakery (cookies), Patsy's Diner, Shake Shack

LOTS OF FUN!!

Columbus Circle

A Salt & Battery--it was fun to have fish and chips for Nan.

I think they passed her test.

We went through a big farmer's market and Nan made a true 'gasp' at the site of the largest cauliflower we had ever seen. And my mom fell in love with beautiful brussell sprouts. In NYC? Who knew?

Us all outside the UN. No tour though...it was Saturday.

I call this one "two ladies on a bench"

And this one "two dead ladies on a bench"

I love that moms and nans let you do wierd things. :)

Thanks for all the fun Mom, Nan, and Megan--it was a rare treat to get to spend so much time with just you guys. Thanks for letting me go Matt!!