The Big City..

How we spent our Saturday....in the Bronx and New York City.

On Thursday, I happened upon someone that was selling their Yankee tickets for Saturday. As we have not made it to a game this season, and it is the last season in this stadium, we jumped at the chance to go. Even though it has been a rough season, there is something about watching the Yanks in Yankee Stadium, and it is the same no matter how many times you go. We take the subway in, which Hayden loves (and you'll see that he made a new friend as usual) and it drops you off right by the stadium. The new stadium is being built right next to the old one and it was pretty awesome to see the two side by side. The pictures from outside were taken with the new stadium in the background. We sat about 25 rows up from the field along the 3rd base foul line. The pictures inside show a lot of empty seats, that is only because the Yanks were down 7 to nothing and I took the picture in the 8th inning. Prior to that, pretty much every seat was full! Of course we had to eat while we were there. The food tastes so much better when it's cooked in Bronx water. They have the best chicken fingers and hot dogs (and pretzels and ice cream for Hayden). After leaving the game, we headed to Times Square. Hayden wanted to "conquer his fear of the dinosaur" in the Toys R Us there. It is a very large, moving with sound effects, dinosaur from Jurassic Park. All the times we were there before, he has been terrified of it. But not this time! We tried to eat in the city, but as usual on a Saturday night in Times Square, the waits were about 2 hours. So we decided to head out of the city and stopped in Jersey for dinner before heading home. We left the house at 8:15 am and returned home around 11:30 pm. A long tiring day, but so worth it. Please enjoy the pics from our day!

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You'll be happy to know that Hayden is sporting his Bronco pride again today. Yes, we got to watch the end of the game (we don't get many Bronco games back here) and it was awesome.

Bronco Blue...

Even though we do consider ourselves primarily JETS fans these days, we realize that the Broncos are still in our blood. So today Hayden is off to school showing his pride in the blue and orange, especially after they throttled the Raiders last night. Keep in mind that he will definitely stand out as he is among a huge, did I say HUGE, community of Steelers fans around here. But our Denver connection would be proud as one of our teachers is a Bronco fan and has quite the display in his room.

We will continue to cheer on our dear old Broncos (as long as they are not playing the Jets).

Happy Football!

First day of 3rd grade...

Just a quick picture of Hayden on his way to 3rd grade this morning. His class is now upstairs so he is moving up in the ranks!

Goodbye Summer....

Today was the last day of summer vacation for Hayden and me. Tomorrow we head back to school. So we decided to drive over to Hershey and hang out at Chocolate World for a few hours. We took the Chocolate Tour ride (about our 10th time on that!). It takes you through the process that they use to make all their yummy treats and then they always give out samples of their newer candies as you get off the ride. Then you can shop in the Hershey store for pretty much anything Hershey, including lots and lots of chocolate and candy. Of course, we can never leave without buying our favorites as well as their newest creation.

Then we drove over and met Todd for our annual "night before the first day of school" dinner out.

Now it's off to bed with visions of school in our heads!

The saga continues...

Hayden has been waiting for months for August 15th. The new Star Wars:Clone Wars came out and he has been so excited to go see it. On Saturday we headed to the theater for opening weekend. Not too crowded, but it is the animated version of Star Wars so there is not quite the following that the movies had. But he enjoyed it and that's all that matters!

As you can see, the boys got out the light sabers for a pre-movie duel on Friday evening. Yes, that is Todd as Darth Maul. Then Hayden did his jedi pose, of course wearing his Clone Wars shirt, before we headed to the movie. Saturday evening they took the duel outside and were joined by Hayden's friend, and our neighbor, Eliza. It was quite a sight to see them all running around the yard with the light sabers!

Start your engines...

If you know much about NC, then you know that NASCAR is BIG down there. We have visited Lowe's Motor Speedway several times during our visits, but this time we hit the Speedpark so the boys could do some driving of their own.
You'll see Hayden, with Todd behind him, driving the first track. Then they drove the next one together.

We all played the miniature golf course, then Hayden and Todd hopped on the bumper boats to cool off.