Fuhriman Family: The Big Apple

Our first ever trip to the Big Apple!!

Unfortunately it all started off as a big disaster :) Here's how it all began. We got up early since we had to be at the airport by 7am. I go downstairs to look for a book to take with me to the airport and I notice there is a funny smell and as I'm looking for the source of the smell I find mold on the carpet and the bookshelf in the corner of the room. So I hurry and get Spencer so he can look at it, and what does he do, he starts ripping down the sheet rock, 10 minutes before we're supposed to leave!! AAAHHHH!! Well he can't find where the water is coming from, so he calls his dad and the neighbor who's a contractor at 6 in the morning to come take a look while we're gone.

Then the shuttle comes to pick us up to take us to the airport and they only bring a small mini-van and there's 8 of us, so obviously that didn't work out for us either and we had to hurry and call our other neighbor to take a few of us to the airport. Then we get to the airport and Spencer left our back pack in the neighbor's van which had all our tickets and apt. info in it. Luckily, we were able to call him on his cell and he hurried back to the airport!!

The entire morning we were rushing and stressing because we were afraid of being late for our flight, and what happens next, our flight gets delayed for 4 hours and then cancelled. So they try and put us on another flight but no other flight has room for all 8 of us. So, we end up having to split up and take two different flights to NYC.

By the time we fly into New York, all I can think is "Wow, what a day!!"

Luckily, The trip got a whole better,

We had a great apartment which was only 2 blocks from Times Square, we learned the ins & outs of the Subway system, we saw a Broadway Show "Wicked" (which, surprisingly, was Spencer's favorite activity in NY!!), we ate a real chinese meal in a sketchy basement restaurant in China Town and it was Delish!! and we got to see and do sooooo much more.

The first day in New York we went downtown to see the 9/11 Memorial. It was a lot bigger than I thought. This is a picture of one of two of the fountains they made. They are in the exact spot where the twin towers stood. There's names engraved all around both fountains of the people who died on 9/11. It's very cool to see.

The first day in NY it rained ALOT!! So after getting completely soaked at the 9/11 memorial we tried to stay inside as much as possible because we were wet and cold. So we went to the famous toy store FAO Schwarz. Tamra and Kurt danced on the giant piano. And we got see life size LEGO creations, here's the boys with Indiana Jones.