Livin' the Good Life: New York, New York!!

I have friends in high places!! My BFF, Mandy has been given the incredible opportunity to live in Manhattan for 3 years. So I forced myself to go visit her! ;) I decided to take Jack since her daughter, Piper is still nursing and we were mostly just wanting to hang out. We decided the next time I come we'll go sans kids and go out. Jack and I got up early on Tuesday, loaded up our stuff, dropped off Elijah at school and headed to the airport.

When we arrived at the airport (and hour and a half early like a good traveler) I found out our flight was delayed 2.5 hours. Nice. So it got to be nap time and still no plane. Poor kid just passed out...

He woke up again when we were getting ready to load the plane, but couldn't stand it. Poor kid.

Our flight was about 3 hours, then we waited a while in Newark for a shuttle, then spent over an hour on a shuttle before arriving to Mandy and Brett's apartment in NYC. Poor Jack had had ENOUGH! We had been traveling 12 hours!!

We were pooped!! But we had to freshen up. Piper and Jack hardly got to know each other before we stripped them down and threw them in the tub together.

Piper just LOVED Jack. Every time he looked at her she just cackled!!

The next morning we hit the town. One of Mandy's friends let me and Jack borrow a good stroller. We walked all around her neighborhood and through the park (they live about a block from Central Park). We had sushi with a friend of Mandy's and headed back to the apartment to let the kids nap.

The weather was just great. Mandy said it was the first really nice weather they've had there. I guess I'm a lucky charm!

Can you tell we were a little late to nap time!!

While we were cooking dinner I caught the kids playing. Jack was really relaxing while he watched some cartoons!!

On Thursday we decided to go to Chelsea to the market. It is supposed to be one of Rachael Ray's favorite places. We were highly let down. It just really wasn't what we were expecting. We got a recommendation for lunch so we went to The Park for lunch. It was great! We had a wonderful pizza!!

After lunch I picked Jack up and noticed we had a Code Brown on our hands. I took him to the bathroom which did not have a changing table! The poop was EVERYWHERE and it smelled SO bad. I was just praying no one would walk in and catch us defiling the bathroom.

Playing!!

Jack loved this table in Mandy's apartment.

He just kept going back to it...

The only problem was he couldn't get off.

We took a quick walk Friday morning and got the big kids some souvenirs. We returned Sarah's stroller and got back to the apartment just in time to catch my shuttle back to the airport.

We had to get to the airport an hour and a half early but luckily our flight was on time. I tried entertaining him. We rode through the apartment like a parade. He waved and "talked" to everyone we passed.