Mother-Daughter Weekend: The Beginning

So as my last post indicated, this past weekend was a Mother-Daughter
Extravaganza. Both my mother and Brittany's mother, aka Aunt Kathy,
came to visit us in the Big Apple for an extended weekend.

This is the first post in the series:

Thursday

The mother's had arrived early Thursday morning. While the
daughters slaved away at work, the mother's rested, bought
tickets for a broadway show, and chatted up with my roommate
Amber until the end of the work day. The adventures then began
we headed off to Time Square to get a quick bite to eat and to see
Mary Poppins (just as good the second time I might add).

On the way to the theater, we caught a glimpse of a commercial
or something being filmed. It's always kind of cool seeing
stuff like this randomly.

After the show, of course we had to make a stop at Junior's
to have some cheesecake. The service was kind of terrible
as we had waited patiently for the hostess to call our name
and 30-40 minutes later, we found out that she had already
passed our name (apparently she called our name several times).
Anyway, this is us while waiting for dessert.

This is my mother.

This is Brittany and her mother, if you couldn't tell.

Little Brittany.

Friday

Friday started off with a visit to my building's rooftop.
Gotta love that view...

Brittany sure does. She gives it two thumbs up!

Then we were off to see the sights.
First we went to St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Side note: I keep getting that 60's song stuck in my head.

Brittany inside the church.

The artistic photos, or the attempt thereof.

We then made our way to American Girl Place,
Rockefeller Center (pictured below), and Grand Central
Station where we bought some black & white cookies.

Then it was off to Lombardi's for lunch. Can you believe
that we got seated right away? Neither could we.

The Mothers.

The Daughters.

The Mothers and the Daughters.

The Amber. Well, just Amber. She joined us for the day.

These are some of my favorite pictures from the weekend.

After lunch of course we stopped at Rice to Riches
to get some rice pudding for later. Then we made a pit stop
at home before....
...heading off to the Staten Island Ferry!

The mothers on our walk there.
(over the shoulder shot)

The pigeons. They were just sitting there inside
the ferry terminal watching people.

You can see one of the pigeons at the top of this picture.

The ferry ride.

Staten Island (at least this time I'm not covered in
zombie paint...that's a nod to you Jeff and Stephen).

Brittany and Aunt Kathy walking along the boardwalk.

My mother and Amber.

This is the 9/11 Memorial: A Letter to NYC.
This has become a favorite place of mine to see
when I go over to the "forgotten" borough.

I really like how these two pictures turned out.
Marky Mark, maybe I have some potential?

Of course, the other Staten Island tradition is
to take goofy pictures. Mother did us proud.

And the winning shot...

How many mothers are this cool?

After riding the ferry, we found the first of
many MLB themed Lady Liberty statues that were scattered
all around the city for MLB All Star Game at Yankee Stadium.

Of course we had to take a picture of Amber with the Rockies
Statue, as she does hail from Colorado.

To be continued...

Things to look forward to:
Friday Night Karaoke
Delicious food
More Liberty statues
Brooklyn Bridge