JK and the Crumb Catchers: Romantic Getaway to NYC

Jason has spent (and will continue to spend) quite a bit of time traveling the second half of this year, so we took some of those racked-up airline points he accrued and headed to Manhattan, just the two of us! Our great friends, Zach and Sara, cared for our kiddos for the weekend so we could get away, because that's the kind of people that they are, and our kids just LOVE them!

Note, since we were vacationing in November, we probably would have gone to Florida if it weren't for the stinkin' Zika virus and the fact that, as a pregnant woman, I, or Jason for that matter, am not supposed to get any mosquito bites or else this kid could be born with a tiny head. NYC has always been on my bucket list. So many of the chick-lit books I read are based there, and so many movies show it, that it's a good place to go at least once, and with the weather only in the 40's in November, it was worth it!

This is the view from our hotel room (32nd floor)

We got pretty good at walking and taking the subway

We visited the 9/11 Memorial, but didn't wait in the 2 hour line to go to the museum. Did I mention this was Veteran's Day weekend?

A panoramic shot from the island that houses the Statue of Liberty

View of Manhattan from the Statue

OK, if you have had more than a 30 minute long conversation with me in the last few months, there's a good chance that you know my recent OBSESSION with Hamilton, the musical. SOOOOO GOOD! We would have loved to go, but tickets ranged from $750-$1350 per person to get in, and we tried the broadway lottery to no avail (they commonly have 10,000 entries for each show's lottery, and only have 21 winners). Imagine our surprise when we were walking down Broadway and came across Trinity Church where Alexander Hamilton was buried! As we were walking around the graveyard outside the church, you could hear people humming Hamilton songs, just like me.