The Empire State Building

When my Mom and sister were here we did so many things it might take me a while to record them! When we were in New York City we were able to go to the top of the Empire State Building! It was amazing and so fun! The day was supposed to be kind of rainy but the rain hadn't come yet, my mom said she had been praying for good weather while we were there and it worked! :) We had beautiful weather for going to the top of the building and as soon as we got down, the top was enclosed in fog and you couldn't see anything! You can see in some of the pictures that the weather is changing. I have a picture at the end of the slideshow showing the fog. So we felt really blessed that we were able to see from the top. The view was incredible of the city and we could even see the Statue of Liberty out in the distance! The wind picked up pretty good while we were up there and the kids loved that-- we could also feel the fog rolling in, our hands started getting sticky and it got colder so that was kind of cool to be up so high and feel the change in weather so fast. We rode one elevator up to the 80th floor and then got on another elevator to go up to the 86th floor. It was kind of scary looking down at first but there are so many bars that it would be hard to be un-safe up there! The kids got to look through those binoculars--luckily I had brought my quarters--and they got some good views with that. The taxi cabs looked like little toy cars and one of the streets we could see was completely packed with taxi cabs! Crazy traffic and drivers there! We got some pictures of the very top spire of the building and John and I even remembered to get our "romantic" kiss at the top! (he had one kid on his back, one was hanging onto my leg and we were about to be blown away by the wind!) The romance from Sleepless in Seattle had to have taken some work up there! :) We loved it and had a fabulous time!!!

ps I have noticed that the captions on the slide show are showing up one picture early and I can't change it, so that is why they don't match all the time! :)