new york city!

Since Megan and I both left ICMA on the same day (and since Megan had only ever visited NYC once in her life), we took a road trip up there the Tuesday before we moved!  It was a cloudy but pretty day in the city, and the fact that it was a workday made it SO much easier to get around!  New York at Christmas is usually a nightmare (I know, I did it twice last year), but going on a Christmas weekday made it more like a normal weekend, so it was much easier to navigate.

We drove into the city around 10:30 in the morning and knew we wanted to visit the Today Show, so we parked close to Rockefeller Center and walked on over!

And you know we creeped on Hoda and Kathie Lee!  That telephoto lens was all up in their grills.

Literally, this girl's job is to read their Facebook and Twitter feeds to them.  That's what she does.  I'd pay a lot of money to be her.

Then, we headed up 5th Avenue to see all the storefronts decorated for the holidays!  And yes, we visited every non-registry floor of Tiffany.  We wanted to see things we couldn't afford, but we didn't want to be reminded that we weren't getting married in the next sixth months.

Love this Tommy Hilfiger bow!  I don't remember it from last year, but I hope it's a keeper!

Then, we walked through Central Park (of course)!

After lunch in Times Square...

...we made our way to Magnolia Bakery for some delicious cupcakes!  It was SO packed in there, but no line like at Georgetown Cupcakes!

Then, we found this gay rights memorial that everyone kept awkwardly posing with...

...and then we saw Usher and I had my own awkward freak out.  But I took this picture for Molly.

And this is pretty much the last picture I took!

After hanging around the Village, we headed to Soho and Chelsea for some shopping before dinner at Ray's Pizza in Times Square.  It was an exhausting day, but we made it back to DC before midnight and were super proud of ourselves for taking advantage of our last few hours in the Mid-Atlantic.  I just adore NYC at Christmas!

we're not breaking up yet.

Helloooooo, dear readers! I know, my rear has been even more MIA than this girl’s.

 But I felt like I needed to check in with you all and say,first of all, how touched I am that you guys keep checking my blog every dayeven though I’ve all but abandoned it!  Ipromise, promise, promise I’m not leaving the blogging world.  In fact, I haven’t even written my last postfor this blog yet!  I have a couple moreup my sleeve.  ;)  But I’m also starting work on my new blog,which I’m hoping I can show you early next week!  It’s not just going to be fancier, butschmancier too.

I’ve already picked out a name for it, but I’m keeping itunder wraps until it goes live.  But no,all you snarky snarks, it will not be called Winstead and Walter.  It won’t even have my name in it.  Will it be cheesy?  Like a good Wisconsinwheel. 

So, hang in there!  It’snot over yet (but it probably will be on Monday)!