New York at Christmas

Mom came out to visit so she could watch Kathryn while Jared and I went to Boston to see The Killers.  For a Christmas present, I took her to NYC to see the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall.  I'd been two years ago with Tarin when we went to see Brandon Flowers as well and I ever since then I told Mom how great the Christmas show was.  We got up ridiculously early (3am) to take the 5:45am train to Grand Central.  The early start was great because there was no traffic and we got a good parking spot at the train station.  We got to NYC at 7:45am and it was great because the streets weren't crowded. It was quite nice actually.  We walked down 5th Ave. and were able to see the tree at Rockefeller Center with no crowds.  It was great.  We went to the show at 9am and Mom loved it.  Especially the Living Nativity, which truly is amazing and beautiful. 

We ate lunch at an "Irish" pub.  I put that in quotes because it was hardly Irish.  The only Irish things were corned beef, lamb and the fact they served Guiness.  It was super expensive.  All we got were sandwiches and soup.  We even drank water and the bill was $58 (tax included).  They also squeezed us in so tightly we were practically sitting at another party's table.  We had to laugh because it was an experience! 

After lunch, we went to St. Patrick's Cathedral to look around and it was beautiful.  Then we walked to the library to meet Jenny.  She showed Mom around the library and then we headed back to Grand Central to get the 2pm train back.  We were tired and wanted to get home at decent hour.  So, I got my usual slice of carrot/cheese cake from Junior's and we got on the train.

After getting back we headed home.  We ran into some bad traffic, but we exited and managed to detour ourselves around it.  The Garmin was quite helpful and we got home around 6pm.  Kathryn was very excited to have us home.

Overall, it was a very good day!