Europe Part III - Quick Stop in NYC

after such an awesome (but exhausting) time in paris and rome, we decided to stay a couple days in nyc to relax and hang out with friends. weve been to nyc many times, so it was nice to relax and not feel the need to see/do everything in town. it also helped with our (and particularly aidens) jetlag, since we only had to adjust 6hrs, then 3 hrs... instead of a full 9hrs if we were to go straight home to la. another cool thing was that having come from europe, it was really cool to see all the european influence on all of nycs architecture. didnt take a whole lot of pictures, just snapped a few around town mostly.









even after visiting notre dame and st peters basilica, st patricks still looks pretty awesome

let aiden go crazy for a while in fao schwartz. you can have a ton of fun here without even buying anything!



some of our favorite food in nyc


nyc is also special for nanci and i, not only because we love it there... but we actually got engaged there! we got engaged in front of the love sculpture, and i was looking forward to taking a nice family picture in front of the sculpture... so bummed there was construction happening RIGHT in front of it! so all we got was this crappy pic!

always fun to watch street performers around the city

aiden on the subway


so great to see one of our oldest and dearest friends claire and her boyfriend danny!

aiden REALLY loves his auntie claire!

after spending so much money in europe, a free ride on the staten island ferry was nice!




hanging out in central park with more friends, tamara and scott





weird flabby guy playing with aiden


central park fountain




path surrounded by beautiful elm trees

when we got back to claires apartment we saw the coolest sight... a ray of sun peeking through the clouds on to the hudson

another view from claire and dannys apartment

lastly, a few shots of times square



we had a great time in nyc as always... although it was different with aiden... couldnt stay at the bars til 4am like old times! the whole trip was pretty exhausting, but we were definitely not ready to come home! were already trying to plan when we can go back to europe... and it may be sooner than later! got a video of the whole trip im working on, should be up soon! thanks for taking the time to see all we had to share on our biggest family adventure yet!