Enterprise Shuttle

Remember a few months ago I did a post about how the Enterprise Shuttle came flying into town?? Well, a few weeks ago it went sailing up the Hudson River to go to its new home on the Intrepid. I was excited to see the shuttle again, and so I knew which day it was to come and thought it would take its time getting down the river especially since it's so big. A-ha, I was wrong. It was cruising up the river, and I almost missed it!!!! But alas, I did not, and got to the railing just in time to get these shots. 

On the water it looked a lot smaller than what I thought it would, but then it should because it wasn't even as big as the airplane it was piggy-backing.

The tug boats helping it along down the river. There were also lots of other boats just going up the river with it.

Then we saw this big ol' crane coming up the river. Yep, it's the one that picked up the Enterprise to put it on top of the Intrepid. Crazy how big this thing was though.

You can barely see the Enterprise over on the right side of the picture, and then the crane following behind. 

Pretty fun stuff to see on the Hudson. 

Cool things that happen in NYC - part 3

Today, Saturday, started off like any other Saturday. Sleeping in, getting ready for the day slowly, hearing sirens, then hearing more sirens, then hearing A LOT of motorcycles?? Wait, that doesn't happen every Saturday.

Turns out a whole bunch of motorcyclists went for a ride up and down West Highway. I'm guessing for a rally of some sort, still waiting to hear what it's about. There were easily over 200 motorcycles, and I'm probably guessing very low. They stopped traffic for at least 10 minutes. 

You can see them stopped on the one side of the highway, while still riding through on the other side. Yes, they went up one way and then came back the other way. 

They themselves got into a little bit of a traffic jam...

...so they got off their bikes and talked with each other! 

Another cool thing that you don't know about and it just happens right outside your window in New York City. 

Memorial Day Weekend

This past weekend we had a fun time going down to Virginia to visit my parents and my sister and her family. It was great to see them all and Spencer, of course, LOVED being with his grandparents (who give him anything) and playing with his cousin Wyatt (who plays everything with him). 

While there we were able to go to Williamsburg Outlets to shop some for me and baby, and the boys. Then eat at Pierce's BBQ, which everyone loved. Then we had great family dinners, played rummy and had great conversations. 

Our last day there on Tuesday was a bit exciting because our flights started getting cancelled! Luckily it was three hours before our first flight left that we heard about it being cancelled, and was able to get online and choose a flight that fit with us. We thought this was a bit of luck because then we were able to head to Red Robin for a lunch with my parents. Well, three hours later, we got another notification that our next flight was cancelled too!! Again luckily we had not gone to the airport, but unfortunately we would have to leave the next morning which left at 6:10am, so we would make it back before school, but that also meant that we had to get up at 3:30am!!! 

We woke up early and got to the airport and got home in record time. Spencer was at school on time, Tyler was at work on time, and I got to take a good nap that day because I was exhausted. Even though the travel wasn't perfect, we had a blast with our family, and found a new show to watch now on A&E...Duck Dynasty!! Check it out. 

In other news, baby boy is doing great, and moving lots! He is getting big too, as you can tell from these next two pictures. This first one is me at around 24/25 weeks. 

This is the belly at 28 weeks! He decided to pop right out and grow lots! 

He still has 11 weeks to get bigger, but hopefully not too much bigger. We are getting very excited to meet this little (or big) one. And yes only 11 weeks, because Spencer was an emergency c-section and was 9lbs. 2 oz. So we decided this one would need to come a week early, so a week early is what we will do, and hopefully not have too big of a baby, but I guess we'll see. 

Cool Things That Happen in NYC- part 2

This past week I came home one day and was talking to my parents on the phone, then out of our living room window I could see some tall masts from boats. I wonder what was going on, and my dad informed me it's Fleet Week here in NYC!!! I never keep up with things, and so it's always so fun to have these surprising entertaining things happen right outside our window!

Here are some pictures and videos of the things I saw, sorry there is so much, but really it was a Parade of Boats, tall boats and warships. 

The line of tall boats.

And here come the warships. It was a bit foggy this morning and rainy, but I love these next two pictures because they remind me of something out of Pirates of the Caribbean. Pirates on the horizon!

Not only did we have boats and ships we got airplanes and fighter jets too!

Oh, and the Blue Angels did a fly by! It was pretty cool.

After the Blue Angels did a couple of fly bys it started looking like rain, so I went back to the apartment so I wouldn't have to run in the rain. Here are some more ships from our living room window.

So big!!!

Just some more of the fun things that happen here in New York City. Also, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! or Decoration Day as it used to be called. 

Broadway- 6

For Mother's Day, Tyler surprised me with tickets to go and see either Evita on Broadway or Once. I decided with Once because I had heard such great things about it, and it's up for 11 Tony nominations!!!! I had to see what the commotion was about, and thought I would see Evita later (hopefully). 

It's a story about a man who sings and writes his own songs, and the songs are about a girlfriend he used to have or still has, but she is in New York and he is in Dublin, Ireland. And then one day a girl who is Czech walks into his life and helps him realize the gift that he has with his music. It's quite touching, and the songs are INCREDIBLE!!!! The only sad thing about this was the usage of the F-word so much. But the story was still interesting and funny and inspiring to go after your dreams.  

The leads in this play were amazing! I mean they had chemistry and they wrapped you up into the play so easily. There was also no orchestra for this play because all the actors played their own instruments, which was amazing. 

Another different thing about the play was that all the actors stayed on the stage the whole time!!! They just went to the side if it wasn't their turn. It wasn't distracting at all either. 

My favorite song from the play:

Broadway- 5

Our next play that we were able to see with Spencer on Broadway was Newsies!!! It was suppose to be here for just 101 shows, but then it sold out so fast that they extended it until mid-August. We were excited, and knew we could not miss out on this great musical! 

Spencer was not so sure about it, but he actually really LOVED it, even if the story line was a bit hard for him to follow. He could follow all the dancing and singing. The dancing that these boys do in this musical is AMAZING!!! 

Yes, see....amazing!

The lead was done by Jeremy Jordan (who was also in Joyful Noise). He did a great job, as well as all the other guys. Who some of them were from the show So You Think You Can Dance, and one of the guys I recognized, Evan. 

Jeremy is the one singing in the middle and Evan is the third person from the right, with the red hat.

All the guys! Such a great show, and if you are here before mid-August I highly recommend you go see this musical. 

Baby Boy

After our vacation we were back to regular life. Spencer went back to school, Tyler went back to work, and I went back to the doctor's. 

When I did the 20 week ultrasound baby boy was moving around so much and kicking at the ultrasound device that they could not get all the measurements and good looks that they wanted to. In fact, it was the heart that they could not get a good look at, so they scheduled for me to come back two weeks later after the vacation. 

Thankfully, even though baby boy still moved a lot they got good looks at the heart and took some more measurements, and checked again for me that it was actually a boy. Everything went well and he is healthy and growing!

Our baby. 

The first time I looked at this picture I could completely see Spencer in it. Anyone else??