New York, New York

Well, admittedly New York was not the first choice for a vacation. We had dreams of spending our days on the beach. But with my pregnancy, yes we're pregnant! We decided to stick closer to home.

But being an American, who would want to miss all the sights New York had to offer?

Time's Square

We went to Broadway and saw the ever popular Wicked show. It was fantastic. An elegant theatre, with fabulous props and singers.

It fulfilled our expectations. If not more, even though they were not the original cast to preform it. Ben and I could not see any reason not to go to Broadway while in New York. Especially a musical.

Rockefeller Center

We also saw the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Which had a wide array of classic art from around the world. It was an expansive, impressive museum. One, if you get the chance to go to New York you should see!

Such art pieces included famous paintings of George Washington crossing the Delaware River and Mary Cassatt paintings.

There was also an interesting armor exhibit, showing different elaborate pieces of armor from England to Japan. 

Not only was the art nice to look at, but the Museum itself was clean and had accommodations of cafes in case you were hungry.

We also visited the classic building of movies and prestige, the Empire State Building. This particular building has been in such movies as King Kong, Sleepless in Seattle, An Affair to Remember and Miracle on 34th Street. 

Though it was cold, we went all the way to the top and saw basically a fantastic view of New York from a bird's eye. 

What else did we do? We went to the Brooklyn Bridge and walked across it. It was a nice little jaunt where we took pictures and just enjoyed the city views. 

Brooklyn Bridge

I got a fair picture of the Statue of Liberty from the Brooklyn Bridge. Unfortunately we were unable to go Liberty Island because of hurricane Sandy.

Another neat place we went to was E.A.T on Madison Ave. We enjoyed a very tasty dinner of chicken pot pie and meatloaf. Those dishes sound run-of-the-mill, but they were far from it!

There was a excellent wait staff and the service itself was good. Course we were one of the few people eating dinner when we first got there.

New York has not strayed from it's original melting pot atmosphere. While we were there one of the many languages we heard was French! We almost felt like we were back in France and fell back to our few French language skills.

Besides French, I'm certain we heard Spanish, German and Italian. It felt as if all of Europe decided to vacation in New York.

But it makes sense. Where else would you visit if you were from Europe? Plus it probably would only be one flight, depending on where you were from in Europe.

Our trip to New York was fun, but it also was exhausting, walking everywhere! We did use the subway, but much like Italy, the subway was kind of far from each destination. You had to walk, no matter how far you were from where you were headed.

The subway is the cheapest way to travel throughout the city though. I wouldn't have any idea how much a cab ride would cost for every single destination we went to. I'm sure much more expensive then what we spent on the subway.

Well, I hope you enjoyed our little jaunt through New York. I hope to see you next time for more crochet!

March: From Squares to Strips

One day I suddenly had the urge to finish my master bedroom blanket. So, much of my time was spent carefully sewing squares together.

I decided to sew them together instead of crocheting them together because I wanted the blanket to look clean, as opposed to looking as if it were a patchwork quilt.

It's going to look great after its done!!

Here is what it's going to look like (sewn together of course).

 I designed the format for the blanket myself, all the while using squares from Vanna's Choice pattern book.

Unfortunately after all the strips were done, I came down with a horrible 24 hour stomach flu. Which did not help future crochet.

A Few of the Strips.

Then there was a big trip to New York to think about. I will tell you all about our mini vacation in my next post.

All in all March was a busy month, planning for our trip and getting through sickness.  I hope to have the blanket done this month.

Thanks for joining me! See you later.