MY BIG BIRTHDAY

I’m just going to skip over any Halloween post because I’m feeling behind and because the weather was so dreadful, I didn’t get any good photos.

We’ll go right to a report on my 40th Birthday! One of the benefits of having a thoughtful husband who travels all the time and has tons of airline miles: he surprises you with a weekend trip to New York. Without the kiddos! I also benefit from having a patient mom who is willing to spend the weekend with those kiddos.

Here’s the silly inspirational soap wrapper from the hotel. It was our mantra for the weekend. Ha.

We walked and walked on Friday and then saw Aida at the Metropolitan Opera that evening.

This is the kind of store I dragged Brian into – he was very patient.

The weather was great for walking – we did more of it on Saturday. We headed to the High Line partly because Bea and Claire have a sweet book about it and we thought it would be fun to tell them we went there. It’s an old elevated rail line that has recently been turned into a landscaped park.

Saturday night we went out for a delicous dinner complete with amuse bouche from the chef and many little courses each paired with a complimentary wine. On Sunday morning we had enough time for a stroll through central park – there was still a lot of Fall color – so pretty.