New York, New York

New York City is one of my absolute most FAVORITE places to be.

I have been waiting  for years to bring  Cam

and the boys and to share the magic with them.

But dang it all,  

there was NO magic!

We went in between Christmas and New Years

along with a million other people and

the weather was so bitter cold it was

practically unbearable.

Although their was a silver lining.

 I haven't ever been there at Christmas,

so I was able to take solace in that.

My family tried hard to make the best of it

since they new I had such high expectations

but there just wasn't a lot of fun to be had.

I call a do-over!

I just hope that we get the chance before we move. 

Some nice man saw us trying to get a photo with our phone and ended up taking our photo with his nice camera and then he actually emailed it to us later. Who says New Yorkers aren't nice?

To try to avoid the cold, we (along with my sisters and their families, a total of 15 of us) opted for one of the tourist buses, but being under the covered did not  really keep us warm and ended up  just inhibiting our view.

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I hadn't been to the Statue of Liberty since my first time to NYC as a little girl, and my boys have been asking to go for years, so with a new day and a renewed spirit we went out again along with my niece Kelsey to try to sight see some more.

And it was still miserably cold. We are coming from South Dakota people and we were dying, that just tells you it was frigid!

Lego star wars jammies for all the little boys, they loved sporting them for their sleepover.

my cutie nephew Sean's eagle court of honor was the great excuse we needed to head up there in the first place.