This trip, involving my whole family, has been a while in the making. We had a loose idea to visit in 2021 for my parents’ 50th anniversary. As that date approached however in the fall of 2021, we decided it wouldn’t be practical to travel. For, you know, reasons. I can’t remember when we decided to do it this year, but hotels and planes were being booked in November; and me and Bonnie booked tours and show tickets a few weeks ago, and now here we are, in New York.

Our hotel was thoughtfully chosen by Bonnie and Jordan. Close to the park and Broadway and easy to get anywhere we might like to go. It’s POURING RAIN right now. As we drove into the city we were driving through puddles that made us feel right at home. Note that we had a driver and mini-van scheduled to pick us up from the airport. Good idea! as we were all stressed out from the traffic just as passengers, nevermind driving; but the driver insisted that it was just normal traffic, which didn’t make us feel better at all! We landed in New Jersey, so we were giddy to experience the Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel, and the New Jersey Turnpike – or at least the signs indicating their approach.

For supper we dashed through the POURING RAIN to an Irish Pub that has a How I Met Your Mother theme. Pub food and beer!

Before that, I found the airplane ride quite do-able – 5 hours from YVR to New York is much shorter than 9ish to London. We had a quite short layover in Van, but the wait times at security and customs were manageable and we made it to our gate in time to hear the boarding instructions – so oodles of time. Then on the plane we had seats all together, which was fun for most of us.

Tomorrow is a bus tour of the highlights of NYC.

P.S. Maybe one not-so-great thing about the day was having to get up to be at the airport at 4:30 In The Morning. But everything else was ok. Also we had to wait a looooopng time (loooooong time!) for our checked bags to appear on the conveyer belt over here. Annoying! But our ride waited for us so not too much of a problem.

P.P.S. I forget what I was going to write. So here’s a video I took from the airplane.

P.P.P.S. I remember! This hotel includes breakfast! So excited. I love breakfast.