New York !!!!

New York, New York! Ragnar had a contest at work recently where he won a trip to New York and he got to take a guest! So...thankfully he picked me!! Last weekend my mom and dad took our kids and we flew to New York with a couple of his coworkers who were on his team that won. Everything seemed to go wonderfully. The flight went great, the taxi to the airport was easy, the subway we figured out, and we just had a really nice time. Thank you to the Rockets for the trip, and to my parents and sister for watching my kids. Here is a little summary of our trip! There are a lot of pictures, but I had to cut down from 150, so I thought I did pretty good.

Here we are at the Ritz Carlton where we stayed. About to head out for our first night.

Our first Subway ride :)

I had to take a picture at Houston Street stop.

Right off the subway....our first view of Times Square....crazy amount of lights and people!

We went to see Wicked at the Gerswin theater and it was AMAZING.....it totally made the trip!

Emerald City at the theater, the characters were hilarious!

You know me, I had to take a picture of McDonalds in Times Square!

We went to Madison Square Garden with Ragnar's co-workers to see the Knicks vs. Rockets game.....of course on a trip with the Rockets employees they would get you tickets to a suite at the game.

The Rockets totally won! Hip Hip Ho-ray!

These are Ragnar's co-workers...Jesse, Cody, Eddie, and Ragnar

Here are their wives and one sister. Hailey, Me, Maggie, and Esmerelda

The Empire State building. Super Tall, and it turns blue at night.

It was such a beautiful time of year to go. This is in Central Park. The trees and weather was beautiful!

Chillin in the park!

Here is the famous Christmas tree at the Rockefeller Center. It has just gone up but is not lit yet!


We took the Staten Island Ferry to see the Statue of Liberty.

If you look close the Statue of Liberty is in the background.

Here it is!

Just a view in New York.

Ragnar wanted to see Trinity Church since it is in one of his favorite movies..National Treasure.

Here is another view. It was pretty. We saw a couple different scenes from movies, and one night they were filming a movie so we had to take a back street home.

Here was ground zero where the World Trade Center was. So sad, but they are building away!!

New York Stock Exchange....we walked down Wall Street.

Anyway, that is just an idea of the fun. We had a great time and were so glad we got a short weekend away with a little idea of what New York is all about. Fun trip, but I could NEVER live there!