Boys and their toys

  Kay and I drove from Omaha to Colorado for a farm implement auction.  These are Kay’s purchases.

At the neighborhood spray park

Kansas lightning storm. Kay is doing some terracing on his property there, living in his truck camper shell.

NYC part two, the final post.

I worked on this post on the airplane ride home.  We were very busy getting out of the house somewhere between 6AM and 9AM every day, coming home for dinner and then out again until 11PMish.  We were exhausted but kept on ticking.
On Sunday we went to the Harlem ward with mom and dad and attended the temple prep class dad taught.  We got right on the subway to the NJ train to Chatham NJ to visit my brothers.  Davin picked us up from the  train and we ate and ate and went home.

Monday Leah and I took Janell toJFK for her flight to Rochester NY to the YFE camp she signed up for.  Leah and  I visited some more places
Walked the Brooklyn Bridge, ate at Serendipity where the owner/cookbook author signed Leah’s book.  We ate beautiful food there, these are some salads.    We tried to get into the David letterman taping and called 86 times to get tickets right at 11am, I didn’t know the trivia question (what color is the announcer’s hair), Leah knew but I didn’t ask her so we were # 27 and 28 and they let in everyone up to number 26 so we didn’t get in.  We had to buy bagels before we left and went to a small recommended bakery.  Leah wrote a list of what we did and saw in 11 full days.  Our NY pass was good for 7 days and we saw and toured everything.  We saw 5 Broadway shows and 1 Off Broadway.
After the red-eye jet blue SLC to JFK Tues.  First day in NYC
UN- tour
Sak's Fifth Ave.
American Girl Doll Store
St. Patricks Cathedrial (JFK was married there)
NYC library-really big library
Wicked
M&M store
Wed
NBC Studios - tour
Radio City Music Hall- tour
Top of the Rock- look out
King Tut exhibit
Madam T’s wax museum
Carmines (had cheesecake)
Phantom of the Opera
Thurs.
Central Park bike tour
Madison Sq. Garden - tour
Lincoln Center- tour
Macy's
Empire State Building look out
Mary Poppins (Broadway)
Fri.
Food on Foot Tour (mostly Hells Kitchen area)
Museum of Natural History - highlights tour
39 steps (off Broadway show)
Sat.
6 hr. walking tour of the city - consisted going to Grenwich Village, Washington Plaza, Wall St., SoHo, Little Italy, China town, Central Park,
saw where John Lennon was shot and where Heath Ledger died of drug overdose and NYU.
Bodies exhibit (interesting)
St. Pauls-behind world trade centers
Trinity Church- where part of the movie National Treasure was filmed
Clipper Ship tour - Statue of Liberty at night
Sun.
church in Harlem
NJ transit -Chatham and Summit
Mon--took Janell to the airport
Statue of Liberty
Ellis Island
911 walking tour
Sylvia's (Soul Food)
Apollo Theater (Harlem)
Columbia University
V&T Pizza
Tues
Van Courtland House (George Washington stayed there it's in the Bronx)
Carnegie Hall - tour
Guggenheim Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
St. Johns the Divine (biggest cathedral in the world)
Wed.
China Town (ate at NY noodle town)
walked across the Brooklyn Bridge
Fao Schwarz
Canal St. Shopping
Tenement museum tour
The Plaza (over the top hotel)
Mama Mia (Broadway)
Thurs.
Serendipity restaurant
Bloomingdales
Baldman Chocolates
Ed Sullivan Theater - called 86 times, we were one number off from being let in.
Tiffany's
Toys R US (there is a Farris wheel in it)
Trump Tower
Temple (had an exclusive tour after our session)
Billy Elliot (Broadway)
Friday- buy bagels and cookies and take the mass transit with 3 pieces of luggage each

NYC

Janell, Leah and I are in NYC .  We have been to 3 musicals, 1 off Broadway show and bought a NY Pass where we get into lots of attractions for free and have done 14 attractions.      99 cent pizzaSubway, Rockette at Radio City Music Hall United NationsCheesecake at Carmines Two hour bicycle Central park tour, Top of the Empire State Building Food on Foot tour Exhaustion

Making Pitas

We made Pitas today along with some bread and muffins. Claire and Alice

Janell's Senior Send off.

Janell had her Senior Send-off where as a ward (church) we honor our graduation High School Seniors.   She made a table display depicting important things in her life and had to stand by the table to answer questions. We were served dinner and watched a slide show honoring the 5 seniors and 5 senior citizens focusing on the 1940's when they were the same age as Janell.

Janell blew people away with her map showing all the places she had been, we made bite-sized lemon bars (drew in the crowd) and I made Janell wear her giraffe print sweater and shoes... Her favorite animal after going to Africa.