NYC part 2 boat ride.

Our second day in New York we woke up really early. I mean like 8AM New York time, so that's like 6AM Utah time. We had a full day ahead of us. Just to warn you this post may have a picture over load.

We went to breakfast, first thing. Then we had to ride the subway to get to our water taxi that we decided to take around New York City. This was probably my favorite thing that we did while we were there! Even though it was hot as hell. Literally, hot and really humid. 

Everyone kinda freaked me out before I left for NYC (mostly my mom). Telling me riding the subway is really dangerous, and I should ride the subway.. I didn't think it was that bad. There were a few crazy people coming and going. But EVERYONE takes the subway, how else do they get places. So, the good thing was you were always surrounded by people. I probably saw at least 6 rats the whole time I was there down in the subway running around. They're kinda cute in their own way, far away from me!

We got to the water taxi and waited in line. It seemed like forever standing in the sun, melting away. Can't you tell how happy I was in the picture below?

I was so sweaty and hot. I hate being sweaty. I was in a bad mood, and Cj kept trying to grab me and hold me to make me happy. When your hot and sweating you don't want someone holding onto you. I feel bad now for how rude I was being.. I'm sorry babe!

Being on the boat was fun! It was nice to have some wind blowing in my hair.

My handsome man!

The boat was a come and go. It would boat around to places and let people get off and explore, hang out. Then and hour and a half later another one would come get you. We stopped off at the 9/11 memorial. 

It was pretty cool to see the memorial. Everyone there didn't really talk. It's just a really sacred place. 

Jamie and Cj

After we left the memorial Cj got a New York hot dog. He loved it, of course. While we got some pretzels and Popsicle waiting for our boat, I was entertained by people watching. There were people just on the side walks tap dancing, dogs playing, people sleeping in the grass, and I even saw a squirrel running around.

Cj showing his dad where the hot dogs were.

Next stop was boating under the Brooklyn bridge. That bridge is so old! It's amazing how they could build something like that. It reminded me of the Golden gate bridge :) Don't worry Jen, SF is still our favorite.

After the Brooklyn bridge we went around to the statue of liberty. I really couldn't wait to see her in person! I was really, really looking forward to seeing her. My first thought when I saw her was "She's tiny!" She's not as big as I thought she was. It was still really fun to actually see her and be there. So amazing.

Looking through all of our pictures I still can't believe that I was there! 

After our boat ride, we felt like some of us needed to go back to the hotel and lay down, and relax. Getting back to our hotel was another subway ride. Getting to and from places can be exhausting. That's just part of being in the city. I'm not so sure of the city life haha. 

Later in the night, Jamie and his dad went to Broadway. Cj and I, well I wanted to go back to Times Square and do some more shopping.

While we walked around we found the Rockefeller. My mom talked that place up, I didn't think it was that exciting. 

This picture is for Sam and Eli.

Jamie met up with us later to do some shopping. Cj is always in need of new clothes, but he's such a picky shopper. He has a lot of clothes, you know for being a guy. But he only like's like 3 of his shirts, and 1 pair of pants. What's a wife to do?  He does let me shop before he shops too. Which is really sweet of him. But I love getting new dresses. It's a little bit of an obsession. Oops.

Jamie met up with us and we got some good food. 

After getting food we got Jamie some new pants, and we took the subway back to our hotel.

While I was getting ready for bed, the boys were throwing tortilla chips at people from our hotel window. They thought it was hilarious. Dorks.

NYC part 1

Cj's family and I took a little trip to New York city, the big apple! Wow was it a life changing experience. We had an awesome time. New York is so different from Provo, Utah. Which isn't a bad thing. I feel like there is so much outside of Utah, so it's always fun to go visit new places!

We flew out of Provo. It was so nice b/c it's just down the streets from my parents house. I don't feel like they were very organized there, only b/c it's so small. But I loved flying so close to home.
We arrived in the big apple at about 4pm New York time. We stayed in the Marriott in Manhattan. It was such a nice hotel room! We had a queen sized bed and Jamie, Cj's brother stayed with us. He slept on the hide-a-bed. The first night we went to a deli that was SO over priced. It had really good pickles, but other than that it was $25 for a deli sandwich. Cj and I shared a turkey burger. The burger was $13 completely plain. It had nothing on it but a bun and the turkey burger. You had to pay for tomatoes, lettuce and whatever else you wanted on it. We ate it plain, putting a lot of ketchup on it. :/

After our deli experience Cj, Jamie and I wanted to go to Time's square. I absolutely loved it down there! Bright lights, lots of people and a lot of shops! Char heaven :)

Here is me complaining that my tummy is super full after the deli.

Times square New York city!  

This was probably the biggest forever 21 I've shopped at. It was 5 stories! Loved it!

Time's square was pretty crazy and this was a Thursday night! We went down there on a Friday night, and it was 10 times worse.

Alpine, Wyoming

A couple weekends ago Cj and I took a little road trip to Alpine, Wyoming! The Ziegler's had gone down there for part of there road trip and we decided to meet up with them while they were down there. Cj had never been to Wyoming, so I was really excited to have him go b/c I knew he would love it! We were lucky to enough to have stayed in the honeymoon suite at Steve and Diana's. They just had recently sold it, but the new owner let us stay for a couple of days.

We got to Steve and Diana's Friday around 6:30pm and everyone had already eaten dinner, and the guys were ready for a night fishing trip. Cj sat down to eat dinner and Steve said "You better eat fast." Cj downed his food and all the guys were off. I was able to stay back with Karinne and the kids, help clean up after dinner. After that we went to the honeymoon suite, where we stayed with the Ziegler's and put the boys to sleep. After that we went down to the spa in the honeymoon suite and sat in the Jacuzzi talking waiting for the guys to come home. It was SO relaxing. 


Our view from the honeymoon suite.

The next day we decided to do a little bit of everything! First we went off to the Snake River to watch all the people come down the river. We even saw some people surfing in the river. Here are some pictures of us at the Snake River.

  

It was so pretty, and perfect weather! Andrew was with us, but I didn't get any pictures with him.. :( 

After the river we went horse back riding. This was Cj's first time to horse back ride and I wasn't sure how he would do. Luckily he had the best teacher Steve to teach him the ropes of riding a horse. He got on the horse and he did really well. He said that was his favorite part of our Wyoming trip. 

After horse back riding, we went canoeing. I don't know if its a good or bad thing that we didn't get any pictures.. Canoeing was very interesting. This was Cj and I's first time to canoe. Even kept saying that this determined how well our relationship was, you have to communicate with the other person for it to work. Everyone had their eyes on us to see how we would do. First we tried to have Cj in the back, steering the canoe. We flipped down the river, he says he wasn't his fault. I lost my paddle, I got my hair wet and I wasn't expecting the water to be as cold as it was. After our little flip we decided to have me steer the boat in the back. That didn't work either. It was really confusing to figure out which way to tell Cj to paddle when he was in front. If you wanted to go left, he needed to steer right. We literally did 10 360's in the river b/c we couldn't figure it out. I was trying to steer the back of the boat, yelling at Cj which way to steer. We started running into a huge tree branch so I just gave up and Cj took the hit on the branches and I didn't know what to do so I just laid my body back, and just laid there. Cj was yelling at me b/c he didn't know which way to go and I just started cracking up that I almost peed my pants! 
We survived, but it sure was an adventure.

After a long day of doing pretty much everything! Diana was sweet and stayed home making dinner. Cj and Andrew were obviously very ready for dinner.

Wyoming was so much fun! We loved hanging out, doing new things and just relaxing. Thank you Ziegler's for letting us come crash your party for a couple of days, it was a lot of fun!!


Next trip is this Thursday New York City!!! I cannot wait!!