Mom's weekend

Because Jason had a little break before school starts he decided to take advantage of his free time and go home and see his family. So as soon as my mom heard she jumped at the chance to come out and spend some alone time with Sheena.

She arrived early Thursday morning so we decided to take it easy and relax before hitting it hard. The problem with my mom is when she goes somewhere she spends most of her time trying to find presents for everyone back at home, so of course the first on her list was purses. After her first subway ride and a successful stop at Canal Street we decided to see one tourist site while she was here.

Neither of us had been to the Statue of Liberty and my mom had heard a lot about Ellis Island so we went down to Battery Park to catch the ferry. Of course we had to take the audio tour so we knew what we were looking at but we definitely looked like tourists with our headphones on. The Statue of Liberty was amazing to see up close, and it made it even more amazing to learn about the stories while standing in front of it. Next we were back on the ferry to Ellis Island. Again we had our audio tour to lead the way so we began walking through each room and listening to what took place there, but my mom was going so fast that she was way ahead of the guide and I couldn't figure out way she was skipping everything when it was her idea to come in the first place. Well it turns out that she was so tired from the flight that she just wanted to sit down, I felt bad for dragging her everywhere so we decided to go before she fell asleep. That night we walked down to little Italy and had lobster and some rice pudding from Rice to Riches to top of the evening.



The rest of the trip was spent shopping, eating and shows. We went to Mary Poppins and it was very cute, but the highlight of the trip was seeing Wicked. I have been waiting so long to see it and I LOVED it. I love the story, the songs, the humor but of course my favorite was the ending. I won't spoil it, but it exceeded all my expectations. I loved it so much that I will go to it again if anyone else wants to come out and go with me.

I had such a nice time with my mom and I'm so glad she finally came out to visit. Everything we saw and did was so much fun but my favorite was just the visits we had each morning just catching up on all the news and talking about nothing. Every night we would say we were going to wake up early and hit the streets but it was always noon before we left the house. My brother and his wife made a DVD of my niece and sent it out with my mom for me to watch and it was so fun to see how much she's grown and her cute little personality. Thanks for coming out to visit, mom. Maybe next time you can convince the rest of the family to come!!