Becky and Stephanie in NYC

In July, Becky and Stephanie came to visit me! We had an action packed 4 days and I have to say that when they left, I was exhausted. I think we saw more tourist attractions in our four days than most people see in a week and a half.  I'm also pretty sure they came on the hottest 4 days of the year. The temp outside was about 100 degrees and inside the subway it was about 150. We definitely burned off our first meal at the Shake Shack by just standing outside!

The heat didn't stop us from having a good time though!  We went to Times Square first, where we ran into the Naked Cowboy!  He really liked Steph and Becky...

We also went on a double decker bus tour around Midtown and Downtown.  It was perfect timing, since we were on the bus while it rained for about an hour. 

It's the Empire State Building!

Becky hailed us a cab to go home!

Monday morning, we got up at the special hour of 5 AM and went to Rockefeller Plaza to see the Today Show!  We had a great spot on the plaza and saw Matt, Ann and Al.  A little boy standing in front of me was the Today Show's biggest fan and wanted to be Al Roker when he grew up, so everybody came over to talk to him, meaning we got some great close up views of the hosts!

 Monday afternoon, we went to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island!

Then, the very last thing we did before they went back to the homeland was to go to Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken  a.k.a  The CAKE BOSS!  We were not the only ones there, to say the least.  It only took us 2.5 hours to get in the doors and another 30 minutes to get our  baked goods.  At least the canolis were good!