Trip to NYC

Last week Mike took a group of students to NYC to see the broadway performance of Mamma Mia. He tries to do a trip like this every year, and for the first time since Miles was born, I was able to join them again. It makes for a long day (and night) and most of our weekend was spent in a bit of a fog. In fact, just this morning I went to see if I needed to upload any pictures from the camera onto the computer and realized that I had taken pictures in the city (although not many).

The trip was great. But we weren't sure that the trip was even going to happen up until we got into the city. There was the huge epic hurricane winds blizzard predicted for the northeast for Thursday, and our trip was on Friday. And where we live, people tend to panic at a dusting of snow. Due to the storm, my MIL was unable to drive down to watch the kids. A friend's (and music teacher) parents were unable to drive down due to the storm as well, so he very generously offered to watch his kids and ours so his wife and I could still go on the trip. Thank you Bill!!!!!

Of course the weather was still an issue for the trip, so we played it by the moment, watching weather forecasts constantly. Luckily, the roads and weather was great for our drive up (and back). We arrived in the city to big beautiful snowflakes. I have never gotten to be in the city for a snowfall before, and it was beautiful. The beauty didn't last long once the snow stopped and the slush and grim took over, but I chose to remember all of the snow covered parks, trees, and fire escapes.

After poking around Times Square for a bit, we had a workshop to meet one of the performers that we would be seeing in the show. We met with Eric William Morris, who plays the fiance (Sky). Then it was dinner, where we met up with my parents, brother, SIL, niece and nephew. They drove down to the city for a day of sightseeing and to meet us for dinner and the show. It was great to see them and spend a few hours visiting. The show was wonderful, lots of energy and fun. By the end I was on my feet singing and dancing! Not your average broadway show.