Mom, Dad and Brother Visit NYC

Well once again, I'm WAY behind on updating my blog. Early in December Mom, Dad and Christopher headed up to see what Christmas in the city was all about and we had a blast! Nothing beats quality time with your family, no matter what you're doing - we were just lucky enough to be in one of the best cities in the world to enjoy each other's company.

Christmas in New York is magical...aside from being bitterly cold with lots of nasty weather and seriously CRAZY people who will knock you out just to be one person closer to the door at Macy's (trust me, I know...)...it's a charmed city that comes even more to life during the holidays. I've already posted some of the pictures from when everyone was here but will share some more and hopefully give you all a taste of our New York City Christmas.

These pictures are from our night out to Peter Lugar's for dinner, Junior's for dessert (cheesecake-of course) and then to see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular! What a great show filled with Christmas spirit - I think I walked around the city the rest of the night singing Christmas carols...

I made the whole family get together for some 'quality family picture taking' time - Thanks to Jess and Byron who headed over to be our professional photographers for the morning. You can't tell it from this photo, but the wind is blowing about 20 miles an hour and we are FREEZING our hineys off in the 15 degree weather.... Sunny mornings in NYC during the winter are always a scary thing - that means it's going to be even colder than usual!

We headed up town to check out 5th Avenue and all the CRAZINESS associated with shopping the days before Christmas in December... We meandered our way over to Central Park as Christopher was convinced we needed to go ice skating in Central Park. It was so much fun!

That's all three of us in the picture above - not sure if you can see Marc - he's hiding behind Christopher...

Mom and Dad in Bryant Park

As always, the Salters family LOVES to eat and we had some really nice dinners while everyone was in town. We opted against giving Christmas gifts this year and decided to instead spend our funds on good food and fun activities. It was definitely the right decision! Above is our dinner at Chart House on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. What a beautiful view to sit and look at the city while having such a nice meal - it was really awesome. Below are some of the dessert pictures of our many stops for 'something sweet' throughout the week... Christopher's pictures are from Ferarra's and mine is from Junior's - YUM.

Christopher has been talking about going to see Avenue Q since the last time he was in town so we decided we'd go check it out....WOW. Probably the most hilarious play I've ever seen but also the most graphic and politically incorrect one too. Half the time, Marc and I wanted to crawl under our seats due to the inappropriate lines coming out of the puppets mouths - I haven't laughed/cried so hard in a long time. :-)

We also went to see Cirque De Soleil (my favorite) - they have a winter show they put on every year in the WAMU Theatre at Madison Square Garden...it was really good. Alegria is still my favorite, though!

Christopher getting 'Dexter-ed' (above) and the three of us after our dinner at Chart House, standing in front of the Hudson overlooking NYC.

Our family Christmas picture for 2008 - hope everyone had Happy Holidays. We had a blast! Thanks for coming up Mom, Dad and Brother - we love you all so much!