Photos From New York

New York

This weekend we set off on Friday evening on the 5 1/2 hour journey to the big apple!Aaron did most of the driving and we arrived around 1am. Saturday am we went to ground zero and then caught the ferry over to Liberty Island to see the Statue. All the tickets to get up to the statue had been distributed before we arrived but one nice park ranger gave us tickets just because we were 'Irish'.

Caner's from New York so he met and took us to the Empire State building ( he's lived here for 10years and this was his 1st time there). After lunch we went to Central Park where Caner and I ice skated while Aaron fed chloe!

Saturday night 8 of us went to Little Italy for dinner - some of the others are working for pwc in New York.

We also had a wee drive around Time Square at night time - Aaron did the driving, I was glad cause all the yellow taxi drivers are crazy!

Video Night

Braveheart is Caner's all time favourite movie - at one point he knew every single line!
Leona, Rita, Aaron and Caner getting ready to watch Braveheart

Baltimore

We went to Baltimore aquarium with Emma, Aoife and Leona the journey only took about 1hour. Chloe got to travel in style around to aquarium!!

Thursday at the Mall

The squirls seemed to really like aunt Helen, they were being feed starbucks shortbread!

Some photos from the zoo

Mum and Aunt Helen's trip

Mum and Helen seemed to have a great time staying with us. It turned out not the be much of a relaxing time for them though, so they'll probably need to sleep for a week to recover from all their early mornings and late nights.

We ate out every night and had Chinese, Thai food, American grill and Itallian food. Helen had said that she wasn't adventurous when it came to food but she can't say that any more!

Wednesday morning, Mum and Helen went to another BIG Home store opposite their hotel and then Chloe and I met them in Borders the book store. In america it seems to be the norm to pick up a book and read it in the book shop while having your coffee, Mum loves this idea - can you imagine what the staff would do in the shops back home if you tried that!

We booked tickets online for a show 'Shear Madness' in the Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts and Mum and Helen really enjoyed it. Afterwards they made it back to McLean all by themselves byt getting 2 buses and the metro! i was impressed!!

The Zoo

Tuesday morning Mum, Helen, Chloe and I got on the metro and headed for the national zoo.

A baby panda was born in the zoo in July, we thought we wouldn't get to see it because you were supposed to get tickets but they had all been distributed for january and febuary already. Panda's like the cold weather and so the baby was outside playing and we got to see it anyway. It was a really good zoo with panda's, hippos, kangaroos, beavers and loads of other animals. Chloe didn't seem to be interested at all in any of the animals. After the zoo we went for coffee in starbucks which soon became a favourite with Helen and Mum.

A day at the gun club

A day at the gun club

Before it all began!

Helen and Mum outside the White House
Chloe really enjoyed playing on this rocking bug

A few more photos

Rebecca and Chloe
Chloe having fun with 3 of the Kearns girls