Last Week in New York...for a bit!

Well, it's finally hot in New York. Go figure, I'm coming home Saturday... Whatever. Lol. I venture to say that I am finally getting used to all the smog, homeless people and traffic. However, I can't wait to come back home and see everyone! I've resigned my contract, so I'll be back up in NY until the end of August. So, if you haven't made your visit up here (and you know who you are), I suggest getting on the stick :)

I ventured out and went to The American Museum of Natural History and The Guggenheim last week. They were AMAZING. I enjoyed the Guggenheim more, mostly because there weren't 32 school field trips there, like the AMNH. My FAVORITE parts of that museum were the Guggunheim Hall of Minerals and the Morgam Memorial Hall of Gems. How dorky am I? I used to collect rocks back in the day... In the Guggenheim, it was amazing to see actual paintings by Van Gough, Picasso, Kadinsky, and Monet to name a few. You can only take pictures on the first level of the Guggenheim though.

Here are a few pics from that afternoon. The next blog will be all about Wayne, America. Haha :)

Central Park on the side

 On the 1.8 mile walk to the museums

 My favorite part of the AMNH

 Pearls and other stuff

 The Museum of Natural History

 First floor in the Guggenheim

The Guggenheim

Washington DC

Well, I LOVE Washington DC!! It was the most amazing, beautiful city EVER! There was grass, trees, flowers, and people who SMILE! We went to so many amazing and historical places the 2 days we were there, not to mention a few non historical bars and pubs :) Not to forget the many toilets and porta pottys DC has to offer. A word of wisdom to anyone planning a visit...

1. Wear layers.

2. Buy and umbrella BEFORE it rains.

3. Don't take the damn double decker bus that only comes around every hour, because there are ones that come around every 15 minutes. We were not aware.

4. Sunscreen.

5. Comfy shoes.

The bars in Georgetown were pretty fun, however, there was some kind of national police officer convention, or something there, so there were 9 billion cops. Fun. Next time, we'll look at the national schedule of events, lol. We made the best of it, did some booty shaking and survived.  So, we made it home in back to the hotel in Georgetown, slept for a few hours, got ready, and were off to a nice day of being tourists. We saw almost everything in 1 day. By the end of the day, we were smelly, rained on, sunburnt with the worst tan lines EVER, and almost needed feet amputations. However, we powered on and made it out. Again.

We went to a town called Adam's Morgan, and were the only people out. for the most part. You'll notice the love connection in the background of this picture. Welcome to Adams Morgan.

That's Lexie using the National Police Offer Convention porta pottys as soon as we got af the slow double decker bus.

This is why you need to dress in layers. Lincon Memorial.

The White House, complete with secret service people on the roof. And a homeless people festival directly behind us while we were taking pics.

Arlington Cemetery. So beautiful and peaceful.

The Washington Monument. Notice the 2 different colored bicks. Google it.

All and all it was a great trip with great company. Can't wait to go again!!! 



It's been too long!

Ok! Just a disclaimer: I've worked the last 3 nights and am still up waiting on laundry, so sorry for the typos and poor grammer :) Let me think. We've been super busy working our 4 days a week, so I want to appologize for taking so long on posting pictures. We've been going to Manhattan a lot on our days off and I found my new favorite place! Battery Park!! Its around the Financial District and it is like the only place with grass in NYC :) and you can walk to the harbor and see the Statue of Liberty. There is also home of "The Sphere" which was outside the World Trade Center September 11, 2001 and was damaged there. So many amazing statues and monuments around that place!!

                                                               The Sphere

                                                         The view from Battery Park

                                                           The Korean War Monument


Well, one Monday, Lexie and I decided to go to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. After a long subway ride and scary walk on Brooklyn's Flatbush Ave., we were finally there. And much to our dismay, the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens are CLOSED every Mondays. So, the nice security man let us in for one pic and felt bad for us okies and gave us free passes to the Cherry Blossom Festival this year. Thank you kind sir!! Then we were looking for the subway and found the Brooklyn Zoo. We went there for all of an hour because it is the smallest zoo on earth, eventually found the subway station, and then went to Grimaldi's Pizzeria under the Brooklyn Bridge. And OMG it was good! Nextwe just went to a few pubs, and then home for the night so we could be back at it the next morning.

                                                          Cherry Blossoms

                                                       Some kind of fish

                                       The funniest mamma monkey ever

                                                    The Brooklyn Bridgde!

                                                  This is Lexie's high school's name :)

                                                                  Time's Square at night


So the next day was raining pretty hard, so we decided to go to the Guggenheim, as did 9 billion other people and their kids because it was Spring Break. Needless to say, this was the only pic we took. So we just wandered around on a mission to find raincoats, crackle nail polish, and the Whole Foods.  All and all, a good and long day!

                                  A museum we never saw because it was Spring Break

                                                     Damn NY rain!



The Dali Melting Clocks



Hoboken, NJ

On a spur of the moment, we went to Hoboken,NJ, which is the home of Carlo's Bakery!!! After waiting in line for 2 hours, we FINALLY got to purchase some of the best baked goods ever created. Between the three of us we had cannolis, an apple crumb pie, brownies, carrot cake cupcakes, red velvet cupcakes, and biscotti. And it all was so amazing!!!

Our spread

Carlos Bakery finally!

Look at those mini cakes!

Then we went to Benny Tudino's Pizzeria and the pizza there was so good! The portions were HUGE and the prices were super cheap. The pic below is of a whole pizza, we just purchased it by the slice, thankfully :)

Just a regular pizza here

One slice!

On the way from Carlos Bakery

Walking back to the car

Finished Orientation!!!!!

Praise JESUS, we're finally finished with hospital orientation. We'll be starting in our designated areas tomorrow. Should be interesting since...

1. We'll be on days.
B. We have YET to take the subway/bus to work
3. We've had one LONG week.

And, let me just say, drivers here drive like total LOONIES! Its like no one cares about the lanes, other drivers, people, parked cars, etc. I swear, I almost shart every time we go to work. Seriously. But, we'll see what tomorrow holds.

Here's where our hotel is!
http://www.newroccity.com/

Day 1 Montefiore

Well, we survived our first "12 hour" testing day at Monte. 12 hours meaning 2 hours, lol. Adrian and I both passed all our tests, so we will officially be here at least 2 months. I was pretty nrevous tho. The test had a ton of dosage calc on it, and I suck at math. No biggie now tho! http://www.montefiore.org/services/coe/pediatrics/

Then we ventured out to the harbor and found a really cool little Irish pub, with a happy hour! The people were nice and I honestly think we were the first people from OK to ever step foot in there! Lol! 
http://www.yelp.com/biz/c-j-cullens-tavern-new-rochelle

 Tomorrow we have more general orientation and computer stuff,so it should be a longer day. We'll see!! I am starting to miss Mooch, my family for sure, DVR, and Wal-Mart :)

                                 The view from my hotel room.

    http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/hpnri-residence-inn-new-rochelle/

Central Park & Times Square!

This is outside our hotel, prior to our day out and about all over Times Square, Central Park and everywhere between. I don't know HOW people in New York have good hair. It was so windy today. That being said, I'm sad to say that I will have to start to increasing my "hair washing day" significantly. My hair will never be the same. I'm having a blast thus far and I miss you guys a ton!!

This is what you get when you open the silverware drawer...

Toys R Us @ Times Square

St. Patrick's

St. Patrick's

Central Park

Magnolia Bakery NYC (Thank you Cindy!)

NBC

Pistachio and Chocolate cupcakes!

P.S. I LOVEEEEEE my camera mom!