You dyed your hair!?

Yes, yes I did.

Before...

After...

I really like it! What do you think?

FAO Schwartz (Mostly in Pictures)!

We had some time before one of our shows started and decided to hop on over to FAO Schwartz. It was well worth it.  It was fun!

 We may or may not have all had our fortunes told by this machine. It was pretty funny :)

 Angry Birds!

 A very large minion! Isn't it cute?! :)

 Awesomeness!

 The Statue of Liberty made out of legos.

Star Wars man made out of legos too. I wonder how long that took to put together. FAO Schwartz = fun time.

Prince of Egypt Soundtrack

Stephen Schwartz was inspired when he wrote the music for Prince of Egypt.  If you haven't listened to the full soundtrack recently, you should! It is awesome!

NYC Birthday Trip Day 3

There were two things that I really wanted to do on this trip... see a show on Broadway and walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and we did both and many, many other things also. :)  On our last day in NYC, we rode the subway to Brooklyn to start our journey across the Brooklyn Bridge. 

  

But before we made it to the bridge, we ran into this French bakery that we couldn't pass up. I got a chocolate eclair and it was delicious! Stephanie, Kara and Melinda loved their items too. So basically what I am trying to say is if you're ever in Brooklyn you should try this place. :)

Brooklyn! 

The Delorean! I don't think it's the actual car from "Back to the Future" but it was still pretty awesome!

The Manhattan Bridge!

The Ship of Tolerance and the Brooklyn Bridge.

We finally made it to the bridge!

The Brooklyn Bridge is about a mile long and it was beautiful!

Love locks on the bridge.  A couple will sign their names and the date on a lock, lock it onto a post, then throw the key into the water to seal their love forever or something like that :)

The fog enveloping the city. It was a cool way to see the city!

Once we got to the Manhattan side, we walked from the bridge to Chinatown and then onto Little Italy. This was a cool building on the way.

Look how skinny that building is.

We ate in Little Italy and this was a canoli I got at the restaurant we ate at.

Little Italy! If you look on the right there is a Christmas in Little Italy store, which was fun to look around!

I liked the contrast of the white building with red fire escapes.

It was a little foggy our last day.  The Empire State building.

This is the end of our lovely trip to the Big Apple. I loved the trip and I am grateful for the friends willing to go with me!

NYC Birthday Trip Day 2

Have I mentioned recently that I love NYC?!  Well I do.  First thing Saturday morning Melinda and I (the two birthday girls) made our way to lower Manhattan where we took the Staten Island Ferry so that we could see the Statue of Liberty from afar. We would have gone to it but it was closed due to the government shutdown.  (Kara and Stephanie were awesome and waited in line (while we went to the ferry) to get matinee tickets for that day for all of us.)  

   

I liked this building near the entrance of Staten Island Ferry. 

Lady Liberty!

 Melinda and I on the ferry!

View of Manhattan from the ferry.

Manhattan!

If you look closely you can see the Statue of Liberty in the background.

 We had a bit of time after the ferry ride before we had to meet up with Kara and Stephanie, so we went to Battery Park, which is super close to the ferry landing. I really liked the park! We didn't get to see it all, but the part we did see was pretty cool! In the picture above is the Navy memorial. The walls on the sides have names of Navy men killed in action.

I have never seen a statue like this before. It's the American Merchant Mariner's Memorial dedicated to those American merchant marines who lost their lives at sea.

 Battery Park!

Our matinee show this day was Once with Arthur Darvill and Joanna Christie.  (Another blogpost to come later about the shows we saw while there.)

I also love Central Park! On this trip we went to a different part of the park than I have been to before and I loved that part too.

We saw Belvedere Castle in Central Park.

The view from the castle!

Central Park!

Still Central Park!

Look how large that bubble is!

To end our awesome second day in NYC, we saw Newsies, which I absolutely loved! What a lovely end to another day in the Big Apple.