may 15, nyc!

may 15 was our 6th anniversary and my sweet and wonderfully generous husband sent me off to visit my lovely sister (see above) who has been living in nyc for the last year. there are a lot of reasons why that weekend was the only one that would work (mostly because of adam's crazy work schedule), but don't worry...that just means that our anniversary celebration has been spread over a couple weeks, so that is kind of fun too. anyway, i will attempt to document each of the the 3 days i was with charlotte so i don't forget as a trip like that will most likely not happen again for many years.

i arrived to jfk airport around 11am and char was late (i know, shocking:) )and my phone was dying so i sat on the floor and charged my phone while trying to figure out how to get to the subway from the airport...
char arrived and pulled me on to the airtrain and deftly showed me how to connect to the subway, read the map, get a metro card and she also promptly dropped her glass jar of coffee (not sure why she was carrying it around that way anyway) and it shattered all over the cement floor of the subway. we joked about how in the south, someone would have said "bless your heart" and helped her pick up the glass while in nyc, people just look on with disdain. very different culture for sure!

i was starving...kind of how i always am lately in this second trimester so we stopped at the block party at the neighborhood cuban restaurant on our way to her apartment. the music was loud, the people dancing like crazy, and the food delicious (though rather greasy)! according to char this is the first restaurant in brooklyn to run completely on solar energy. as she said "that is so brooklyn."

solar panels:

we then booked it to her apartment and changed clothes, dropped my bags off, and prepared for our afternoon.
brooklyn:


outside of her building:


her bedroom (we shared that single bed for the weekend)that was surprisingly quiet with a playground in front and a school behind, she wakes up to birds singing and church bells playing beautiful and obscure hymns:

bathroom window:

we were a little late for our story corps interview because of the switched around weekend trains, but we still had a great time...it was an interview to honor adam so char asked me all about how we met, our love story with a few rabbit trails here and there and now we have a 40 minute recording to pass on to our kids about how their parents fell in love. i was surprised at how nervous i was about it...the ultra-cool sound guy made me feel like there was an audience, but it turned out pretty well and adam was surprised and touched by it. char just finished her internship with storycorps and that is why she went to nyc in the first place.

lower manhatten


we then headed for times square where pretty much only tourists go to see mary poppins. we almost didn't get in because our tix were accidentally purchased for may 1st instead of the 15th, but they squeezed us in. we thought we would get some good salads to balance out all the grease we had for lunch, but...

we settled on fries and shakes

times square


the show was amazing even though the story corps people laughed at us for going to a kids show and i think char picked up some nannying tips from mary poppins. my only regret is that i was so tired from the long day that i kept nodding off during the dialogue of the second act. my oh my, though, probably the best musical i have ever seen!


we took the subway home and slept for 8 consecutive hours...amazing!