The Big Apple - Travel Day & Day 1

Rather than try to extract every detail from our trip and bore you with wordy explanations, I'm going to overload you with pictures and fun captions instead.  We left KC Friday morning and arrived in NYC around 4 o'clock.  We were able to check in to our hotel room and begin our fun family vacation immediately!

Friday: Arrival and The Lion King

Awaiting our plane to NYC

Fun welcome sign as we landed

Casablanca Hotel

Rainy Friday night on the Square

As the sign says... "There's simply nothing else like it!"

The Minskoff Theatre was only a block away

Busy Times Square after the show - it looked like daylight when we walked out of the theater!

We found Dave Letterman!  Not really, just his studio.  And Jay has glowy eyes... creepy.

Giant cheesecake at Stage Deli - the best in town!

Enjoying dessert after the show

Saturday: Double Decker Bus Tour Day 1, Central Park, Rockefeller Center, Once

Starting the day - it was about 65 degrees in the morning with a high of about 80.  Beautiful day!

Fun Instagram collage: (from upper left - characters on Times Square, top deck of the bus, wishes written on confetti from New Year's Eve 2011)

Snapshots from the bus...

Not entirely sure what this picture is of... but I think it was a cool statue and there was some high-end shopping around there or something.

Museum of Natural History - where they filmed parts of "Night at the Museum"

Pretty church with no significance.  I just thought it was a nice picture ;)

Central Park Lawn with Belvedere Castle in the background.  There was a wedding going on there!

Yummy hot dogs - New York style!

Mom and me at Rockefeller Center

Dad and Jay

Beautiful cathedral where lots of famous people supposedly get married.

Jay and I made a candle offering and placed it by the angel.

Fancy dinner at a Pan-Asian restaurant called TAO.  Supposedly lots of famous people eat there but we didn't see anyone.  Maybe they were super sneaky.

Dinner was delicious - we all got something different and our waiter wasn't crazy like the picture makes him look.  He was actually very helpful and pleasant.  :)

Outside Jacobs Theatre before "Once".  People were cutting in line as we were taking the picture.  How rude.  It's not like we didn't have reserved seats, people.  C'mon.

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Stay tuned for more from our New York get-away.  I've sat in front of a computer for way too long today and need to catch up on Team USA!