Last week, because it was my spring break, I was able to have lunch with Jen and get the grand tour of the Fed. It’s a
lot like I imagined, if not better. Very professional, the best of everything, and
lots of security! I had lunch with Jen in the grand lunch hall in the main
building. There was so much good food that it was hard to choose. The pic is of
me on Jen’s floor in front of the Fed seal.
The very next day we had our first visitors from my side of the
family. The VA Rexrode’s only live about six hours away… what took them so
long!? Maybe when they got word that the Florida
Rexrode’s were coming in just a few weeks it helped motivate them a bit. But
really, my cousins were on spring break and my aunt and grandmother had time
off so they decided to come, very last minute. I got a call Tuesday asking me
if they could come Wednesday. Gotta love the VA Rexrode’s! We really wanted to see them and they are always welcome but Jen and I were
working all week and had to tell them we might not see them too much. I had just finished picking up extra shifts at work for my days off too. By Wednesday around 3 pm they
had arrived (after a few expected wrong turns in Manhattan) at the new Wyndham hotel
that’s just a block from our apartment. I was able to stop by on my way to work
to say hi and give them a crash course on NYC.
While here they got to eat at my
restaurant, went on a circle line cruise around the city, had good pizza and
visited central park, times square, and grand central. Both of my cousins are teenagers
and thus too cool for NYC so I hope they had some fun… you never can tell.
Oddly enough, the most fun I saw them have was in our little children’s
playground at the waterfront park. Kind of like the kids who get something awesome for Christmas and play with the box it came in. The best food they claimed to eat was a
burger at a Mexican restaurant, ha. Another priceless moment was when my
Granny Joyce, who hates exercise, just stood at the bottom of a flight of
stairs in the subway and screamed because she didn’t want to climb them. As you
can imagine we got some really crazy looks from New Yorkers. In an attempt to look more normal I guess, David told everyone that had witnessed her outburst that she was drunk. And that’s only
the funny business I was around to witness…
Time with family is priceless. All in all, it was
great to see them and made for a good test run for when my folks, brother, and
grandparents come in the beginning of May.
We lucked out with great weather while they were here,
although they complained it was too cold (they’re from the mountains of VA!?).
It’s really warm and sunny this week, my favorite kind. Like summer! This last picture
is of Union Square Park (our favorite part of the city) taken from the windows of
DSW Shoes. Ha.
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