New York City - Day One!

 Calissa's choir was supposed to go to New York over Spring Break to compete and Trav and I were going along as chaperones.  At the beginning of February, her choir teacher ended up cancelling her choir because not enough of the girls were planning on going.  Once that decision was made, we decided to get our money back and go on a trip as a family.  We talked about going to Yosemite, a church history trip, a trip to Disneyland and the Dodgers, a trip to New York, or a trip to Las Vegas (Grand Canyon, southern Utah, etc.).  We were going to vote on Family Night, but that afternoon I had the thought that maybe we could combine some of those trips.  We called it the "New York hybrid."  We decided that we'd spend a couple days in NYC and then rent a car and drive to Cooperstown to see the Baseball Hall of Fame, then travel to Palmyra and Fayette for some church history sites, and then on to Niagara Falls. That was the top choice and we booked an awesome trip.  We left Tuesday morning, bright and early and took BART into the San Francisco Airport.

 We had a direct flight into Newark, NJ and took Uber to our hotel. It was our first experience with Uber and it worked great! Once we checked into our hotel, we had dinner and then headed into the city after a short bus ride.  We arrived to the hustle and bustle of NY!

 Times Square!

 NBC Studios and 

 Radio City Music Hall!  We tried to go to the "Top of the Rock" that night but when we arrived we found out that the top was fogged in, so we decided to go back the next night. 

 After we left Top of the Rock, we saw this bakery that Marci had recommended.  They were known for their banana pudding.  Trav said it was yummy.  We had a good brownie and blondie as well.

After getting a snack we headed back into the heart of Times Square and visited M&M World and the Hershey Store.

 All four of us squished into the photo booth at M&M World.  Our last picture was supposed to be a "mad face" but we couldn't stop laughing!

 More of Times Square!  It's crazy there with so many people and so many lights.  This was at 10:00 pm!

 Look who we met up with in NYC? Tyler and Teri were there visiting Tyler's mission and happened to be there the same night that we were.  We met up with them and headed over to Dave and Busters to play some games.

 We played for about an hour or so together. Calissa and Trav trying to win some tickets.

 Conner and Tyler racing each other. 

 Teri and I racing each other. The boys were better than we were.

We parted ways around midnight and headed back to our hotel.