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New York New York!

One day we were thinking about travel and vacation. My parents figured it would be crazy not to go to Paris with the apartment my grandparents had and the fact that my dad hadn't been for so long. We started looking up flights and we ended up with 4 tickets to New York. I wasn't sure how we went from France to NYC, but I was so excited to be going!! It was very spur-of-the-moment and actually Freestone will be going to Paris for his 10-year-old trip! So Ruby and I started saving for the trip and thinking about what it would be like. This is Day 1....
The airport

Our flight was a red-eye; leaving at 12 am and arriving at 6 am! The view from the plane was amazing with all the sparkling lights and skyscrapers. We got to our hotel, the Intercontinental and were pleasantly surprised to find they already had the room ready for us.The room was so pretty and the hotel was super nice!
Our room
Checkin' out the view

We set our luggage down and headed immediately for the Statue of Liberty. We took a ferry that traveled past it and we took tons of pictures and laughed when it started pouring rain. We got off at Ellis Island and stayed in the museum for awhile. The Statue of Liberty was smaller, but prettier than I expected. It was really cool.

On the ferry!


Cute!

Sisters!

Where immigrants would come to become citizens

 Then we went to the hotel and took a nap. I obviously really needed one:)

After our power nap we headed to Junoon to dine for restaurant week. They had Indian food and it was delicious but spicy!
We saw Juilliard!

Times Square! :)

My first Broadway show!
We were lucky enough to get to see Mary Poppins on Broadway! It was amazing! The costumes, actors, choreography, everything! In the scene where they go to the park and Bert's drawings come alive, the statues in the park start dancing and talking. It was funny and they were amazing dancers! My favorite song was Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The costumes were super bright and happy and the dancing was so fun and it's such a feel-good song! :) I LOVED it!

What a fabulous first day!:)

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