Monday, June 25, 2007

Boston and NYC--Broom Vacation 2007

**FYI**You may want to read the previous post to catch up on the latest news going on in the Broom Family household......
Okay, now for pictures from our Boston and NYC trip. Jeremy says it was not a "vacation" because we were way too busy. We were gone for a whole week. From Thursday to Sunday we were in Boston. We took a bus tour, a whale watching tour, a Fenway Park tour, and a tour of some random cities outside of Boston because I got us on a commuter train instead of the subway......Anyway, back to the trip.....
We saw some very cool (very old) fire stations.
I'm so burned out on baseball right now, but Fenway is one of the coolest places I've been. The game was awesome and they make Rangers games seem sooooo boring. They are great fans up there!!!
The "green monster" or "the wall" as they say up there.
This was one of the whales we saw on our whale watching tour. That was really neat to go on, also.
Make Way For Ducklings!
I bought that book for Cassidee and I took pictures of the statues to put inside the book for her.
Of course we ate at Cheers!
We got to NYC on Sunday and stayed there until Thursday. We went to NBC Studios. We took the tour of that--really interesting--and then we hung out on the street where they film the Today Show. We didn't get to see anyone from the show come outside.

Rockefeller Center
ESPNZone--one of the best places we ate. There were 12 TV screens on the wall. Jeremy was in heaven.......
But he was a little stuffed when we left!

We went to a Mets game. It wasn't as good at the Red Sox game, but they actually won the night we watched them!
The Hershey's Store---smelled like chocolate inside---almost made me sick at my stomach. I didn't like the smell of chocolate when I was preggo with Cass either......
We stopped in some fire stations and fire museums up in NYC. They are very proud of their firemen up there!
Their trucks are neat to look at! Very patriotic!
In the 9/11 tribute museum there were lots of quotes up on the walls. I remember Pres. Bush saying this and wanted a picture to remember it.
The museum actually brought tears to my eyes a few times. The displays of items found at the sight were unreal. A set of car keys, a subway pass, a fireman's helmet.....tears.......
Yes, it is just a big hole in the ground. Funny, people are working all over the place with big cranes and bull dozers down there---I don't know what they were doing, though.
Jeremy got to experience the wonderfulness of being a daddy with a daughter. He got to go in the American Girl Store and help me buy a baby doll for Cassidee. I have a doll from here and I figured she needed one too. All he kept saying was, "That doll is $45? That diaper bag is how much?" :)
We had the most fun in Times Square. We ate TONS of good food there!


Of course we went to the Statue of Liberty. Jeremy was jealous that I had gotten to walk up in the crown a long time ago and we couldn't do that anymore. I don't know if it is a 9/11 thing, but we only got to go as high as the observation deck of the pedistal.

FAO Swartz---so fun! Get outta my way kids, I wanna play the piano!!!
To make up for me having to go to so much baseball stuff, Jeremy took me to see Mary Poppins. He was less than thrilled to go sit through it, but when it was over he actually said that he really liked it!
On the last day we were there, we took a tour of Yankee Stadium. We aren't really Yankee fans, at all, but since they are tearing the stadium down we figured we should go while we could. For $5 you could get your name on the scoreboard. Of course we put the name of our favorite little pumpkin up there so someday she can say her name was in lights!!!
When we got home Cassidee was sure happy to see that we hadn't left her forever!!! Due to a pregnancy craving I made some brownies at 7:30 in the morning---yup, I was really craving them. Of course I gave in and let her lick the bowl---and no one give me a hard time about the raw eggs.....whatever!
She had pretty much licked the whole bowl clean and gave me her normal sign for when her bowl is empty.........."more".............



Have a great week!!!!!!!

6 comments:

Susan @ Blessed Assurances said...

Congratulations! I can just see Jeremy chuckling away! I will keep you all in my prayers.

And eat all the brownies you want! I would eat them too pregnant or not! They are a great breakfast treat!

Susan

Noe Family said...

Holy Moly that's a lot of pictures! So fun. To answer your question, we got our pictures made at Portrait Innovations in Colleyville. Greatest place and sooooo cheap!

Ashley said...

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations on baby #2 and your wonderful vacation! That is so great! I can't wait to go to NYC. You know that all firemen have to go to at least one station in every town they visit. It is so funny!

Take care of yourself and Casidee and #2!

Connor, Kaylee, Tripp, Thatcher, and Truett said...

Hey guys! Congrats on #2! I am so excited for you (says the woman who is about to have two kids only 15 months apart)!! I enjoyed the pictures from your trip. I think it is great that the two of you guys got to get away together because it may be a while before you can do it again! Love ya'll!

jennifer said...

It looks like you had lots of fun! We live an hour from NYC, but don't get up there often enough. What a fun trip!

Sarah said...

So excited that you are having another little one! You guys should really work on planning these things out so you aren't soooo surprised each time! : )