New York Day 1

For Christmas this year, Tanner and 3 other law student husbands gave their wives a trip to New York for two days and tickets to see the Christmas Spectacular featuring The Rockettes at Radio City. Actually, us wives planned the trip while watching our husbands play intramural football one night, but they all thought it was a great idea. We had so much fun! It was fun having a girls' trip with no children, but also a little strange. I think we all looked frantically around a few times for our kids before remembering it was just us! And there were a few phonecalls to mom from potty training children, and we all had to smile as one of the wives would exclaim "YOU WENT POOPY IN THE BIG TOILET!!! GOOD JOB!"

We drove up early on Wednesday, and we were in the city by 2pm. We walked everywhere, saw Times Square and Rockefeller Center. We watched the Saks Fifth Avenue Snowflake Show...TWICE! and saw the beautiful windows at Bergdorf Goodman. My favorite was the Gingerbread window. The detail was incredible. The Christmas Spectacular was absolutely AMAZING. It was worth the trip just for that experience alone. After the show we walked down to see the decorations at Macy's. We got a lot done that day and we all fell into bed exhausted that night. At one point during the evening, one of the women said to me "I have seen other cities at Christmastime, but I have NEVER seen anything like this!". Amen to that. Hopefully this sample video and these pictures capture the feeling of what it was like.