October NYC trip...late

Ok! I have been in charge of our first New York City trip blog. Unfortunately… I haven’t written it! So I am finally repenting. Now we can get this wonderful experience.  

I have a super amazing wife… which everyone knows and no one doubts or denies. For my birthday she spoiled me with tickets to a Red Bulls (soccer) game. Now, to be clear, I detest Red Bull and other types of energy drinks. So there is almost no way I would have been a Red Bulls fan. The one way happened, however, and they brought in one of my favorite players after Barcelona let his contract expire. So we decided to spend a weekend in NYC and I would get to watch the Red Bulls and Thierry Henry!

I took off half a day on Friday and we left as soon as Brittany was done with class. We had heard it took up to three and a half hours (my boss must be a slow driver), but we were into Newark, NJ in around 2.5 hrs. Staying in Newark saved hotel costs. We parked by Penn Station (Newark) and took the PATH system into NYC. Got some Metro passes and we were off. It was awesome! We hit time square! Lots of cool things to see there. Lego structures, lights… wow.

Saturday we went back into NYC and went up to Chinatown. Got Brittany a nice purse. Subway system was super-hot… too bad we had our coats… but we were prepared! I mean October in NYC… who woulda thought it would be hot! No luck on food. We kept striking out. We ate at one Mexican place Chevy’s. Super great salsa! We were so excited… but then the food was mediocre at best. Oh well. My highlight was the game of course! The night was perfect! Clear skies and 70 degrees! Stadium is new and super nice. Red Bulls beat the Timbers. Henry didn’t score but it was still a treat! To my surprise and delight Brittany had a good time. That means maybe we’ll get to go back someday! It was a great trip. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Great Salsa

JACK

Nice new stadium

Henry!!

Beautiful girl!

Star Wars Legos! + random leg

School Starts!

Today you get a glimpse of my nursing life!  You ready?!

I just got these books for JUST this semester!  I guess I'll be doing a lot of readying!  Hurray for school starting!  Hope everyone else has a great semester as well!

Apple Picking!

In October we went apple picking with some friends!  I made yummy apple bundles with them!

The apples were really good and cheap!  I think this will be a tradition!

Horse Races

The next couple of posts I'm going to fill y'all in!

We went to the Horses Races in Saratoga Springs (thanks for the suggestion Keri)!  I've never been to anything quite like it!  People really get into it!  After each race you would hear people screaming because they won money!  We didn't understand half of what was going on, but we still enjoyed it!

Eating a dessert crepe!  Yum! 

 

The horses ran so fast I couldn't get a good one with them racing!

Here are couple of pictures I took of REALLY nice houses by the track!

I am obsessed with looking at houses! I think the first and the third house I posted are my favorite! 

New York!

Sorry about being horrible at posting!  School just had me soooo busy!  Things we have done since living here:

• Apple Picking
• Hockey games
• Horse Races
• New York City for the weekend (Jacob's first time)
• Boston Temple
• Jacob got a new (used) car!
• Saw the 5 Browns in concert
• watched a Christmas Carol play
• I finished my first semester of nursing school!
• Jacob is a counselor in the elder's quorom
• Explored both malls here!  (and they are both awesome!)
• I'm the sumbeam teacher!
• Made lots of new friends
• Got snow tires

We have had a lot of fun! (I actually don't hate it!)  I can't wait to do more things up here!

Sorry about no pictures!  I'm dumb and can't seem to load them onto my new computer!  Hopefully they will come soon!

Check List

Moving to the northeast we knew we would have many different experiences.  These are a couple we expected:

Not so friendly people (check)
Nice summers (check)
Ice
Snow
Lots of Snow
Tons of Snow!

Things we didn't expect:

Awesome Farmer's Markets (check)
Earthquakes (check)
My first day of classes being cancelled!!!!!!! :) (check)
Hurricanes- soon!

haha!  I guess we should expect everything!  :) 

Hope everyone stays safe!

Pen Stealer

So unfortunately I am the world's most boring husband, and to entertain herself tonight Brittany decided that she would clean out her purse. I was probably doing something on my computer, however, when she got towards the bottom something happened that gained my full attention. I set my laptop aside and started watching... as Brittany pulled pen after pen from her purse. I probably started to notice at five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten... still going... fifteen, sixteen, seventeen... yeah. All together twenty-one pens/pencils! 21! So then I started to look at the pens... 13 were mine! Ha Ha This coming from the girl who always made fun of me for having pens in my pocket. (I am a nerdy engineer and always have at least two pens and normally a pencil in my pocket.) I couldn't believe it. no wonder some mornings I can't find my pens... I guess I know where to look from now on!  She says 13 pens in 11 months... how many will I take during eternity!? :)

Three phone interviews this last week... interesting to see what this week holds for us...