The Big Apple

This past weekend Steve and I joined my family on a trip to New York City to celebrate my grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary and to see my brother compete in a track meet. I hadn't been to New York in over ten years, and Steve had only ever been there on a layover, so we had a lot to see! We did all the typical tourist stuff - Rockefeller Center, Empire State Building, Central Park, etc. - and ate so much good food like giant corned beef sandwiches from the delis, New York style pizza, and lots of cheesecake. Luckily we did a lot of walking to combat all those delicious calories ;) One of my very favorite parts of the trip was going to see the musical Wicked on Broadway. It was a great show...I hadn't read the book or heard any of the music before, so it was all a surprise to me, but it was very well done and really fun to watch. The first night there we also went to a comedy club, which was an interesting experience. There were 6 or 7 comics, and they were all pretty funny, except for the last guy who was AWFUL! It was like he wasn't even trying to be funny, he was just trying to say the most disgusting things he could think of. Kind of awkward. But it was still a fun night, our favorite comedians were Judah Friedlander (from 30 Rock and Best Week Ever) and a guy named Godfrey (who I just found out is the 7-up spokesperson in their 7-up yours campaign! haha) who was so so funny. And seeing Parker vault at his meet was cool too, he is always so impressive. The best part was just getting to spend time with the fam and spend a few days doing something different. We came back to some good news also, Steve has his first law school acceptance! He's only heard back from one school so far, University of Miami, and he was accepted! It is really exciting, Miami is top tier law school with a good international program, so it's definitely a good option. And it's really cool that they accepted him so quickly, obviously they really liked what they saw, because it's only been a few weeks since he applied. I am really, really proud of my very smart and amazing husband, and so excited to know that he's for sure going to law school next year!