Everyone needs a best friend in their life who comes along and is up for all the crazy adventures the two of you can dream up. For me, one of those people is Susanne. Between the two of us, there is not a voice of reason or a practical bone in our bodies when we put our heads together. In fact we have list running of all the kooky things we've done with our combined 5 kids that most parents would shake their head at. It's a pretty funny list...One of my favorite stories is when we went to Williamsburg and got a recommendation for a fantastic restaurant for dinner called "Food for Thought". We arrived at 5:30pm and was told there would be a 1.5 hour wait. Despite being surrounded by all these chain restaurants with empty parking lots, we go for it and wait it out. The icing on the cake was when the kids complained they were starving and starting to meltdown from a big day spent in historic Williamsburg. We gave them multiple bags of potato chips to hold them over. A side note: For those needing a restaurant in Williamsburg, I highly recommend "Food for Thought". It's worth the wait! Even with 5 hungry kids.
It wasn't too long ago that we started talking about Winter Break and what each of us had planned. An idea to go to Busch Gardens for the day with the kids has turned into an overnight trip to New York City. We quickly added a third amiga and invited Anna to join us with her 3 kids. Yes, that's right. 3 moms and 8 kids all loose in New York City. What could be more fun?
I was fortunate enough to go to England and Portugal with Susanne and Anna. We did great traveling together for 10 days without any kind of break from each other. Now lets add in 8 very active, very noisy, high energy kids and we'll see how it goes. These kids are all great friends with each other as are the moms. I believe we have the recipe for a getaway we might have to describe as "epic". :)
We have such awesome plans! Given that we are going 4 days before Christmas and expect it to be a busy time, not to mention we are a traveling group of 11, we have our visit pretty well planned out with reservations and tickets bought.
We are going to the Rockette's Christmas Spectacular Show! We are seeing the broadway musical "School of Rock"! We plan to go down 5th Avenue and see the store window displays! Reservations for dinner have already been secured. Seeing the big Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center is on the list.
I love New York City! Ian and Samantha have never been there during the holidays and it will be so much fun for them to see how NYC goes all out making Christmas magical.
Susanne and I took the kids to NYC at the end of June 2015. It was high time we returned and took it up a notch in the city that never sleeps.
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