Thanks for Visiting!

John and I are so lucky to have Josh and Madison, our brother and sister-in-law live so close to us.  They live in New Haven, CT which is a couple hour's drive from the city.

Their life is super intense because they are both medical students at Yale, so we are always honored when they take the time to come and see us in New York!

Here are a few pictures from their weekend visit a couple of months ago.

 Brooklyn Bridge

 A really fun game they brought to play--can't remember the name, but I think I won :)

 The Cloisters Museum.  It's within walking distance from our house!  

Josh and John

Last month my mom came and visited!  We went shopping, saw some sites, ate lots an lots of delicious food, and saw FOUR Broadway musicals!!!  And we didn't pay full price for any of them.  We either got last minute rush tickets or won the lottery. (Some shows save 20 front row seats for the day of each performance and allow people to put their names in a drawing to win the tickets for about $30 each, which is a huge discount from the full price.) The first night we got rush tickets to the Spiderman preview.  The next day we won lottery tickets to a new musical, Wonderland (the story of Alice and Wonderland with a cool twist.)  And that night we won lottery tickets again to see the Book of Mormon Musical!!!!  And the last one we saw was Rain, a musical tribute to the Beatles.  We tried as hard as we could to get rush tickets to How to Succeed in Business Without Trying with Daniel Radcliff, but that show is so popular right now, we didn't get in.  Actually we were really lucky to get into the Book of Mormon musical because it is hands down the most popular musical on Broadway right now.  There were hundreds of people who were there for the lottery and John one!

Here are some pictures.  See how fun New York is?

 Spiderman musical

 In the Subway (our cool rain jackets were Christmas gifts from my dad this year.  Thanks Dad, they have been VERY useful.)

 Getting some famous New York cheese cake at Times Square

 Mom cooked up some delicious salmon that we bought from the famous Chelsea Market.  My first time eating fish in like 7 years--I actually loved it!

An Irish session we sat in on at a pub.  It was just like being back in Ireland.  We were also really excited to see CillianVallely there, who plays the uilleann pipes in one of our favorite Irish bands, Lunasa.  By the time the session was over we had missed the last express train home so John, being his typical self, found someone with a car who was driving by our place on his way home and asked for a ride!  Mom and I were kind of weirded out to be riding home with a stranger but we got home in about 15 minutes!

Well I hope this motivates some of you to come visit.  We are pretty lazy about taking pictures so this is only a tiny representation of all the fun we have here.  And... we are VERY MUCH looking forward to Aunt Clea and Jody coming to visit us next month!!!!  We are going to make sure they have such a great time.  And of course we are also looking forward to having our parents (and any other family who can manage) come for the baby blessing in the fall.