New York, New York

While our husbands were all out working hard for the day Me, Tamara, Hailey, and Brittany all took a trip to NY City last Saturday! Brittany was our amazing tour guide - she has been interning in NYC this summer so she's become a pro at riding the metro :) The other two girls have been to NY before also, but it was my first time. We had soo much fun!
Our first stop of the day was China Town. I was WAY unprepared for this place! I was expecting something similar to China Town in SF, but wow, it was Nothing like that! This place was crazy!! There were so many people! And so much cute cheap stuff to buy! But I restrained myself and came out of it with only One purse.
Next, we went to lunch at Grimaldis. It's a tiny pizza place under the Brooklyn Bridge. It's super famous and super good! We waited in line for 45 minutes just to get inside. But it was definitely worth it! I would totally do it again!
Then we headed over to Central Park and walked through a little bit of it. That's when it started to rain! You can kind of see the water hitting the lake behind us in the Central Park picture. I knew Central Park was big, but I didn't know it was BIG!!!! I was amazed! It takes hours to just walk the perimeter! They have carnival rides, ponds, bridges, all kinds of stuff in that park! It was so pretty and so neat!
Then we went to see the Manhattan Temple. That was so cool also! I have heard a ton of times how neat it is that it's right in the middle of the city, but seeing it in person makes such a difference! We took a picture across the street from it, and all the pictures of the taxis were taken from the same place. That's how busy it is!
We then headed down to Times Square, and as soon as we got there it started pouring rain!! It was still so hot though that none of us wanted to put on our sweaters. We eventually gave in. It was so funny seeing hundreds of people trying to crowd under the overhangs to try and stay dry. We decided we were already wet, so we just kept going (plus we were running out of time). So we kept walking through Times Square in the pouring rain! Brittany took her shoes off and was walking barefoot. One time I was trying to hurry across the street so I wouldn't get hit by a taxi and my flip-flop got stuck in the puddle in the street. It took me a few steps to notice, and Brittany scooped it up for me.

You can kind of see how soaked we were in the picture we took in

front of the wall of M&M's. After Times Square we headed back home to meet our husbands for dinner. It was SUCH a fun trip! I can't wait to go back, there is still sooo much more to see in the city!! My mom is coming to visit next week, and we're planning on going to a Broadway musical, so I'm sure I'll post some more NYC trips in the near future.