Thanksgiving Holiday

Home Again Home Again.....

Mr. O and I had an amazing time in New York for Turkey Day. We left AVL around 6pm and got to NYC by 5Am! Only two gas/pee stops! :) We went straight to bed and woke up around 11:30am to start Thanksgiving. We celebrated with Jesse's side of the family - The Benowich's! Beth and Larry are the two sweetest people (Mr. O's father's cousin) and their two girls Gillian and Shari! We had such a blast just catching up, cooking, sampling food, watching other people cook (of course thats me!) and football! THANK GOODNESS THE COWBOYS LOST!

This was Jesse and I's first year not to be with our families at Thanksgiving.... and we loved every minute of it! Of course I missed my mom's special side dishes and seeing our niece Alexandria but we will have many more opportunities ahead of us!

November 25 2010:
Thanksgiving was pretty laid back.... slept, ate, football and I was out by 11pm! Happy Birthday to my sister Jamie!!!!

November 26 2010:
Mr. O and I were off to try Pepe's Pizza in Yonkers! No line, great booth (except for the screaming children to our left) and unbelieveable P-I-Z-Z-A! Broc/Tom/Chz and Bacon/Garlic! We had to stop by some crazy shopping places b/c it is "Black Friday" so we did Best Buy and Old Navy near Ardsley, NY. That evening Gillian, Mr. O and I took the train from Hartsdale to Grand Central! I had never been on a train before... fun! The 40 min ride that cost us 14 a person! We got to the city and Gillian went off to her 10 year reunion and Mr. O and I looked at each other and took off! We enjoyed the city at night walking around and then ate dinner at Palm Too before meeting Gillian back at the train at 11:15PM to get home!

November 27 2010:
We slept in today. I got dressed and ran errands with Gillian before her flight back to AZ. Barnes and Noble, Bagels and a few drug stores! Mr. O packed up the car and we all said our good byes! The Ordans were off to NYC! We paid 31.00 to park our car in the all day! We rushed to Serendipity 3 to put our name on the list for the famous frozen hot chocolate! (they had a 2 hr plus weight). FYI - from 330 - 630 we are following the NCSU vs MD game by phone stats! We went shopping - New York & Co, The Body Shop, Bloomingdales and etc! Finally around 4pm our table was ready at Serendipity 3! We had 2 frozen hot chocolates, chkn nachos, and spuds! The food was okay but the frozen hot chocolate was great!!! Around 5pm we went to Chinatown! Amazing experience! After 2 hours of purchasing knock offs and going into secret hideaway rooms I think I'm set! :) Next stop was Magnolia Bakery which is one of Jesse's favorites! Thank goodness dinner was at 7:45pm! La Tanzis was very good! It gave us a chance to warm up before we hit the streets again! We made it back to the parked car and headed off to The Meadowlands in NJ to our hotel! (You think we were gone for a month with all our stuff.) After unpacking, getting the A/C turned ON (yes I did say ON) we were able to fall asleep looking out to the NYC skyline! The empire state building lit up in orange and red for Thanksgiving colors.....just beautiful.

November 28 2010:
FOOTBALL DAY!! We slept in and then got ready for the NY Giants vs Jaguars football game at 1pm! Jesse's client at GPI gave us 2 suite tickets for the game! The stadium was unbelieveable! So clean and modern! We were in the Lexus club! We had tons of food and drinks, three tvs inside with couches and then 20 leather chairs outside to watch the football game LIVE from the visitor side of the stadium from the 10 yard line!! WOW!! It was so great!!
Our night ended with Tic Tock Diner and then another drive into NYC for diet soda (Randy), Carnegie Deli, and black/white cookies to bring back to NC with us! Ohhh and I bought a Kindle! So excited to start using it!

November 29 2010:
We both have today off so we can drive back to NC. Our goal time to start is 7AM! Wish us luck!