NYC

After visiting with my friend in NJ for a few days,
I took the train into NYC and met my mom and sister. We have a new tradition (2nd year running) of having a mom/daughter weekend as part of my mother's b-day gift. We planned it early this year because I will be gone in the Fall. Anyhoo, we were total tourists - sneakers, cameras - the whole bit - all the way down to our fabulous hotel room with a view of Times Square.

We didn't make it to a show (Wicked was on my wish list, but I didn't have an extra gazillion dollars for a last minute ticket). But we shopped, ate at fun restaurants, and went to dinner one night with two of my cousins who live in NYC. It was great to get caught up.

Ground Zero is basically a huge construction zone, but we were thankful for the small memorial museum that was there. It was like re-living that day all over again. This wall of pictures was the hardest for me. So many people lost...I wanted to look at each one of their faces. I could have stood there for hours. When you see that big empty whole in the ground, its hard to imagine the tremendous buildings that once stood there and the tragic events of that day.