The Woodruffs Go To NY

A few weekends ago, as many of my family as could decided to go to New York for a weekend. It was one of the last weekends before Tyson, who had been doing an internship over the summer with Deutsche Bank on Wall St, headed back to school. I should add that Tys was working as a paid intern, one of the few in his class. He was living the high life!
Anyway, so we came driving from all over and spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday exploring the Big Apple. We had a great time, although we were sad that Kyle, Jamie, Diana, Nate, and all the rest of the nieces and nephews couldn't make it.

We started the day by riding the Staten Island Ferry. Here's all of us as we passed by the Statue of Liberty.








Tys doing his typical camera pose.






After the ferry, we tackled the rest of the city by foot! We passed by all sorts of iconic NY places. Here's Trinity Church.


Wall Street


The site where George Washington took his first vow of office when he become the President. That's right; it wasn't in Washington DC.


Here's the trading floor where Tyson interned all summer. Apparently, during a regular day, this place is a zoo of people yelling across the floor at each other and everyone running around. Sounded totally chaotic, but Tys said it was fun, too.


With all the walking around we did, some of the kids got pretty tired. At one point, I had to carry Jayci while trying to comfort and encourage a puckered-out Tyson (I couldn't carry him, too).


Here we are at FAO Schwartz.






One thing we all wanted to do was see Wicked, but tickets are really expensive. Instead of trying to get full-priced tickets, we all went to the theatre on Sat night and on Sun afternoon and entered our names in for the lottery. We won two tickets on Sat night and two more on Sun afternoon. So Alyson and McKenzie went Sat night, and Heather and I went Sun afternoon. Since we were driving back with Mom and Dad, we decided to wait in line for canceled tickets and ended up getting two more on Sun afternoon, so Mom and Dad went with us! Talk about the stars aligning, right?! The show was fantastic ,better than we expected (and we already had high expectations), and Heather and I got to sit in the very front row, so that was awesome, too.




So all in all, a fantastic trip. We can't wait to go back to NY for more!