Snow in St. George

After getting home from New York, it really is colder here. It snowed all night and now we have this lovely stuff.

My house at Christmas time

Welcome to New York City

Our shocking arrival in this great big city. We were wide eyed as we turned the corner to Time Square. Our first sight after getting off the bus.

It was really a bit overwhelming and exhilerating. The first night we just walked around aimlessly and wowwed out. It gets dark by 4:30 so it seemed to be night most of our trip.

Overall we found people friendly and very helpful when we were looking for the right train, bus or street. Lots of honking though:) Sometimes it felt like being on a movie set. It was a very memorable trip and what a great time of year. The temperature never went below about 36 during the day and it snowed once but didn't stick.

Top of the Rock

The city at night from up top

Hard to get a good shot with the reflective glass. Guess they don't want people jumping.

Wicked

We went to three Broadway musicals, but Wicked was my favorite! LOVED, LOVED it!

We also saw Billy Elliot, and Rock of Ages. Also saw Alter Boyz which was an off broadway show. We also went to two comedy shows. Always something to do.

TIME SQUARE

My favorite part of New York has to be Time Squre. The lights are better than Vegas and there's so much energy there with all the people.
Sitting on the red steps.

Unbelievable!

See all those people!!?

Imagine the the craziness when the ball drops to 2010!

Tree at Rockefeller Center

It was very pretty and very large, and alive! Some kind of Norwegian Fur.

Hundreds of people and they all wanted their picture with the tree too.

Another day, and still a billion people everywhere.

It's Christmas Time In The City!

Just in front of a nice hotel.

I think these lights fell off the top of that building:)

Christams balls!

Central Park

A tree reflecting in a pond in Central Park

The grass was suprisingly very green and it looked just like so many movies filmed there.

We kept our eyes open for any celebrities since they all seem to be seen walking their dogs and kids in all the magazines here...no luck. But we did see some guys that looked like they could be paparazzi because they had big nice cameras. But they could have just been tourists like us.

It was a nice stroll and we walked through half of it all the way to Time Squre. With all the walking we did there, I ended up with these cute new boots...warm too:)

Around Town

The Met....we tried, only lasted an hour or so. Pretty bored.

We went into Trump Towers for a Bathroom and a snack. Didn't see the Donald

Leslie posed for a sketch of her to be drawn into a characature.

It looks a bit scary here in this shot, but it's not that bad in real life...although she doesn't resemble it much. Obviously she looks better in real life.

Riding The Subway

It wasn't as easy as it looked. We crossed this street three times to try and find the right train. Then we realized we had to cross the other way to catch the train we wanted. This is also the corner where we saw a pizza delivery guy on a bike totally biff it. Slippery in the rain.

So cold outside, but so hot inside. Constantly shedding layers and putting them back on as we go in and out.

We were lucky this one was pretty empty.

In the Movies

Doesn't this look just like the movies....you can tell we're tourists because who takes a picture of this?

NY Giants and Cowboy's

Nick Folk, practicing his kicks before the game.

The Game

Coldest I was the whole trip....until evreyone got there and filled in all theempty space with warmth. Oh those NY fans are so full of warmth....they were so happy to sit by two Cowboy fans.

We had pretty good seats:)


This is a true NY Giants fan....trying to get the crowd into it saying,"if we don't do something right now it's over!!!!" The Giants season was on the line if they lost....but they won and we were sad.

The Statue of Liberty From The Ferry

First View of the Lady Liberty....

It was cold and cloudy and Leslie almost kept us from going because she could barely walk from blisters on her feet, but we made it. Seeing her is always awesome!
Larger than life. Hard not to take a billion photos.

View of the City from the Ferry

Luckily Lelsie found a nice coat to keep her warm.