NEW YORK AT CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Well, we're back, safely. We celebrated our first anniversary this past weekend in NYC. Our anniversary isn't until December 15th, but we had to celebrate early. Friday morning we headed to the airport around 5:45 to catch our 7am flight to Houston. Everything was going well until we boarded the plane. It seemed as if it was foggy in Houston. GREAT. So, we sat at our gate for an hour and half before we were given the go ahead to fly. Unfortunately I was a basket case the whole flight, because I knew we were going to miss our connecting flight which was to leave at 9:09am. We landed in Houston at 9:15. So, fortunately, there was a girl next to us who was headed to NYC as well. She had been calling her mom looking for other options. She let us know that there was a 10:45am flight leaving that we could catch standby. SOOO, we basically RAN (I'm not sure why because it was only 9:30ish). It was on the opposite end of the airport, of course. SOOO, thankfully, they had actually put us on that flight! Peter had Chicken Express and I had Subway at 10 in the morning. Hilarious. We landed in NYC around 3 something and headed to our hotel! It turned out to be a great little hotel in Chelsea! Perfect for us! Here is a pic of us unpacking and getting ready for the nights events. We got in our warm clothes and walked 30 blocks down 5th Avenue and stopped at the Europa Cafe for dinner. We had some great flat bread sanwiches with turkey, cheese, pickles and hot mustard! We were energized and ready for the next adventure. We ended up in Rockefeller Center for THIS AMAZING SITE......... We waited in line for an hour to go ice skating and it was well worth the 25 dollars a piece to do so! Afterall, there was no time limit!!! Here's a few pics and a video.
After ice skating we walked around Rockefeller Center into some stores and then walked on into Times Square. That place still amazes me. There were people EVERYWHERE!!! We passed by this.... I bought a hat, which you will see in the next pics. After Times Square, we headed home. We were beat after a day of travelling and lots of walking!!!

Saturday morning we slept in and went downstairs for our free breakfast. It was important that we eat quickly because we had to be on Canal Street IMMEDIATELY! I prepared Peter on the subway ride of how quickly this will all happen. I instructed him to follow close behind and not to be scared.
THIS picture below shows you the damage that was done in less than an hour or so. :)


We even headed back down to Chinatown again once more on Sunday. :)
After our shopping spree we rested in at the hotel for about an hour and then met our friend Luke for lunch. I regretfully forgot to take a picture of us. He took us to a fabulous Thai restuarant! I was FULLLL.
After lunch we decided to go wait in line for Broadway tickets. But, much to our dismay, the line was well over a mile long. We debriefed and decided we'd try again on Sunday morning for the 2 o'clock showing. Sooooo, we headed through Times Square and shopped around. We then headed to the all familiar H&M and decided to hop down 5th avenue for some more shopping. At around 5 we went to a HUGE Catholic mass. There were SO MANY people there, and I must say it was very interesting. We then hit FAO Scwartz, Trump Tower, the Nike Store, Anthropologie, and a few others. By this time, it was time for dinner. Luke introduced us to a fabulous hole in the wall Italian food restaurant. It was glorious!!! We then hit up Bryant Park for this outdoor Shopping and Ice Skating. We just walked around to the different Christmas booths and decided to take a picture under the tree.

We headed home for a much needed sleep.
Sunday, we meant to wake up early and go get tickets for the Broadway show, but realized we'd be late to Luke's church if we did. So, we again, opted out of standing in line. We Walked out of our hotel to see that it was SNOWING! It was so pretty!!! We loved worshipping in NYC with Luke. I Secretly wanted to get up there and join the choir singing "O Come O Come Emmanuel," but I refrained. We talked with Luke for a long time and then headed for some pizza for lunch. We also hit up Bloomingdale's and a walk around Central Park. Here's some pics. IT was beautiful!





Sunday evening we celebrated our anniversary in Little Italy at a great restaurant. I can't believe I didn't have someone take our picture! I might have had to much wine or something. Or, I probably just forgot!!! It rained on us on the way there and on the way back. We left our umbrella in our hotel room. We laughed it off!!!
We had a great dinner. Unfortunately, all that rich food didn't sit well with my stomach, so I was up until around 3am. I was fine when I got up the next morning.

Monday, our last day, we decided there were a few things we needed to do! So, we headed to Bleecker Street for some AMAZING cupcakes at the Magnolia Bakery. I'm retarded and didn't take pics. We then found a local dinner in Greenich Village for breakfast at 12. :) We walked around and then hopped on the subway and headed downtown to Wall Street and The World Trade Center. I'm sure you've all seen too many pics, so I won't post any.
We had to be back at our hotel at 3, so we booked it back and got in our Lincoln car off to La Guardia.
We had an interesting travel experience on the way home. We get to the Continental counter to realize that ALL flights were delayed and that we would miss our connecting flight. Long story short, we ended up at the American counter for a non-stop flight at 8pm. Or so we though. After being strip searched and my bag testing positive for some chemicals, 45 minutes later we were at our gate. After waiting a few hours, we find out that our flight was delayed 45 minutes. Then another hour! We ended up leaving New York around 10ish to arrive at DFW after midnight. We finally climbed in bed after 1am exhausted and mad that we had to go back to work!!!

Overall, it was a a wonderful trip.
Thanks for sticking with this post!!