Photopotamus: a Blog: The Empire State

After our respective high school graduations and transitions to college and the Real World, my sister and I flew the coop. I moved to the Midwest two years after she moved to the Empire State (commonly referred to as New York). With the exception of a few months here and there, she has maintained residency there ever since, starting with tiny dump apartments in Manhattan as a college student, to an apartment in Jersey City (technically not New York, but it may as well be), to an apartment in the Bronx. Her final foray into renting was her now-husband's parents' apartment on Park Ave in Manhattan (they live in the suburbs but own the apartment), before she and her husband bought a house in the suburbs where she can easily commute by train into The City.

Over the years, I have visited my sister several times: at least three Thanksgivings (possibly four?), two wedding dress shopping trips (mine, then hers), her wedding, one or two spring/summer trips and finally a trip with my own husband this past November to check out their house in the burbs. Though they have lived there for a couple of years now, I hadn't had the time to make a trip out since they moved in. But this fall we finally made it happen!

We were there from Friday through Tuesday over the first weekend of November. We spent the weekend out around town near their house. Wine tasting, scenic driving, restaurant eating, football watching. Then Monday and Tuesday we commuted into The City with my sister and played tourists while she spent the days at work. Visited Rockefeller Square, the 9/11 Memorial, Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, tried New York style pizza and Shake Shack, stopped at my favorite crepe spot, and strolled through Central Park. With our few hours on Tuesday prior to our flight home, we were able to go up to 30 Rock to catch some views of The City that I'd never seen before.

All in all, we had a great time with my sister and her husband and the City That Never Sleeps. Check out a few photos: