New York, New York

New England Anniversary trip Part 1

Well, I stayed up till 2am to start this video. And I completed it this morning and Tyler has tried rendering it in different sizes all day and it's finally here! The first of hopefully 3 movies from our trip.

Our trip to NYC was awesome and by the end of the week I thought, "I could live here." Not that we will be but we may be somewhere back come next fall so I had to see how I would feel about toting 2 plus kids around crowded places. Anyway, a few things about NYC, in MY opinion.

Things that were over-rated:
1--Di Fara's pizza joint in Brooklyn. Not only did it open later than the sign says the pizza was not AMAZING like we hoped. The 80 year old founder still makes each pizza by hand and he is slow. BUT he does use very fresh ingredients and it was tasty and still inexpensive.

2--Wicked. Please don't hate me but I am still not a huge musical fan, even of this one. I've always appreciated and connected to boring straight plays more. the set, costumes, movement, acting and music were all excellent. But I felt the plot was weak. How can anyone compare this to Les Mis? I love the Oz story but I had a few qualms with this one.

Things that were under-rated:
1--Taxi drivers. Though they are scary to drive with they get you there fast and expensively.

2--Peter Luger steakhouse--Yes, we spent over $100 for our porterhouse steak. But it is BY FAR the best steak I have ever eaten in my life. It melted in our mouth. So good. I know some of you think we are crazy for spending that much on steak. We seriously spent more on food than anything else this trip. What can I say, I'm married to a food snob (even one who DOES lower himself to eat at McDonald's to try and win Monopoly).

3--Junior's Cheescake--Decently priced and VERY rich. Be sure to share w/a friend or two. So delicious. You can order it online for a hefty price too. Yummy!

4--The Met--Metropolitan Museum of Art. Oh, I love art museums. Our favorite place in all of Paris was visiting the Louvre every friday night. This reminded me of that. World famous and fantastically beautiful artwork. I LOVE impressionism so seeing so many monet's and van gogh's took my breath away. I was in heaven. Our pictures do not do them justice.

All in all NYC was great! Enjoy this 5 1/2 minute video. You will probably think I am insane for spending so many hours on it. But I am a perfectionist when it comes to these kinds of things and no one really notices but me. But it's for posterity, right?

PS--this first version of the video is a crappy version.....it's kind of fuzzy. I am getting to impatient to download a better version on youtube bcse it is such a big file. check it out again later if you want to.

Check out this higher quality version on youtube--it's a bigger screen too--and watch it in high quality--there is an option under the screen to do so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIaATCd_Plg