I am back from trip to New York

Oh my!! What a fun time I had on my trip to The Big Apple. My friend Jane was a great hostess. We done and saw so much. The first day that we arrived at Janes in Newburgh we had lunch at The Fireside Grill on the shores of the Hudson River and then we walked along the sidewalks on the banks of the river. It was a beautiful walk with all kinds of rose bushes and flowers. Then we went to Jane's house and what a great hostess. We unpack our bags and had a great steak dinner. We done some crafting and look through some of Jane's books of ATCS. She had over a thousands ATCS. To bed we went as we had jet lag and we were tired also as we had to get up at 5 A.M. that morning to be at the airport 2 hrs. before take off. Our flight was great , no terrist thank goodness.

Monday the next day Jane had a great luncheon for us. She had 6 of her friends over for us to meet. All of her friends were crafters of some kind of crafts. We met one of our group member on the internet that does scrapbooks and she had her scrapbooks to show and tell about how she does those books. Also Jane's friend had a beautiful quilt that she showed us that she had made in 3 months time. She also makes beautiful greeting cards. Jane also showed us how to make a pull out card and we made the cards. We all had such a good time and the food was delicious.

Tuesday we got on the train to go into New York City. The train ride was wonderful it rode along the banks of the Hudson River. It took about an hour to get into Grand Central Station. We took a scary cab ride to our Hotel The New Yorker. This was my first time to be in New York city and I couldn't believe all of the traffic and people. So many cabs and the way the cab drivers would drive. I was kind of uneasey riding in the cabs LOL. We arrived at our hotel and had a wonderful suite and a great view from our window in the living room. We could see the Empire state building and all of the other tall buildings and all of the people on the sidewalks. We were on the 24th floor. It was a beautiful site at night time with all of the lights and the Empire all lighted up. We got ready to go to see The Phantom Of The Opera. We took another scarey ride in a cab to it. Oh it was a great show the costumes and musice was wonderful and so colorful. The acting was also great. The Majestic theater was beautiful inside. I wished we had taken our camera to the theater to make pictures of the inside of it but we thought we couldnt take our cameras inside but we could but couldnt make pictures during the show. We had seats four row back from the stage and it was great to be so close to the play. After the play we had a bite to eat and returned to our hotel. A great day in the Big Apple.

Wednesday we had breakfast and off we went on our tour bus to the Empire building. We were searched just like at the airport to enter the Empire building. We went all the way up to the orbervation tower which is 86 floors up. A great view from the tower. We made some great pictures. And of course had to buy some souvenirs. We then went to China Town and Little Italy. China Town is the second largesst China Town to China Town In Californa. We walked and walked the streets of China Town and jewed the markets down on their prices. I bought a watch and other things that we jewed down the prices which we were told to do. We got back to the Hotel and boy I was so tired. We had dinner and rested and then went to bed as we were all so tired.

Thursday we hopped on the tour bus again after a good breakfast and off we went to get on the Ferry to go to Liberty Island to see statue of Libby. It was a beautiful ride on the ferry and a beautiful island. We walked all around the Statue of Liberty and made pictures of the island and our lady Liberty. It was a hot walk and had ice cream to cool off. We bought more souvenirs of the grand lady and the island. We then took the ferry back to the city and boarded the tour bus again. We saw where the towers stood on the awful day of nine eleven. It was so heart breaking to me that I had cold chills. There was a fense full of tiles that children had made in schools all over the world in memory of Nine Eleven vitoms, over a thousand of the tiles that was on the fence. We got off at Central Park and took a carriage ride through the park. All kind of flowers and trees a very beautiful park and the carriage ride was great. By the time we done all of our site seeing it was getting late and we had to get back to the hotel and pick up our luggage to board the train back to Janes house. We got back to her house at nine p.m and her husband met us at the train station. Boy we were so tired we had ice cream and then hit the bed. It had rained that night and a cold front came in and the temperture dropped to 44 . It was really cold and damp and wind blowing hard.

Friday morning we went to Mohonk Castle. Mohonk Castle is a resort on a beautiful mountain. Jane had made reservations for lunch there for a lunch outside on the lake. We had a great meal of barbeque ribs, yams and all kind of salad and vegs and deserts. It was beautiful place with a beautiful hotel like a castle and the flower garden was beautiful with every kind of flowers you could name. Beth hiked up to the top of the mountain and Jane and I sat by the lake as I wasnt able to do the hiking. We left the Castle and went into a little village shops and we shopped until we dropped LOL. We got back to Jane's house and we were so tired that we order a pizza and then we had to pack our bags for Saturdays flight back home. Oh we did hate the thought of having to leave Jane and New York. We had such a wonderful time with Jane and site seeing in New York but we knew the time had come for us to leave.

We left for Nashville at 8:58 A.M. and arrived at 12 in Nashville. Beths husband met us at the airport. We have great memories of our trip to Janes and our days in New York. We will post some pictures of our trip soon in our blogs and we plan on making a scrapbook of our trip. We will always treasure the trip to New York and will never forget it.
Granny Lottie

New York Here We Come!!!!!

Well it is about time for Beth and I to go and see Jane in New York. Today is Wednesday June 12th. We will fly out of Nashville June 17th at 6:40 CDT and arrive in Newburgh N.Y. where Jane lives just about hour from the Big Apple. We will arrive in Newburgh at 1:45 EDT. She said she is taking us to the river for lunch. I can hardly wait to get there. I have already started packing my suitcase LOL. I always pack too much clothing that I want wear but I guess that is a woman for you LOL! Jane has really worked hard on plans for Beth and I. She is having a luncheon and craft meeting Monday for us. Then Tuesday we will take the train into N.Y. City. She has already made reservation for us to stay at The Plaza Hotel right across from Madison Square Garden. Ashley her daughter will meet us and that night Jane, Ashley ,Beth and I will go see Phanton of the Opera. Wednesday we will go site seeing and shop. We will take the train back to Janes house on Thursday. Friday we will go and have lunch at The Castle in the woods. Saturday we will fly back to Nashville Boo!Hoo! I will post some pictures in here of our trip to Janes when we get back. I know we are going to have a lot of fun with Jane. She is a very dear friend of ours. I made her a surprise package to take to her. I hope that I can do all of the walking to see the sites. I am taking my walker and my cane. My walker has a seat that lets down and when I need to rest I will just flop down and let Beth and Jane stand LOL. Oh might take turns with them to use my walker seat if they are real good to me, which I know they will help me out a lots. Beth is so good when we go anywhere she always watches after me so I dont fall.

I have really been busy this week trying to get my art swaps out and in the mail. Beth took me Monday to the eye Dr. to get my eyes checked out. I will get new glasses after I come back from N.Y. Monday night I burned the midnight oil so I was able to finish all of my swaps and Round Robin cards. I had 30 R.R to add something to and send them on to someone else. Tuesday I cleaned my art room up. It was a mess trash all on the floor and couldnt see my desk top for all of the brushes,paints, stamps and cardstock. It really looks nice and neat today but my husband said it wouldnt stay that way longLOL!!! It will stay neat until I get back and start on my arts again. Today I cleaned house and been pittling around in here and decided I would write in my blog even if no one ever looks at it. Beth said no one looks at mine because I never go into their blogs. She may have something there as I have been so busy that I havent gone into other blogs.
Sorry about that, hope you will forgive me will try to do better. Tomorrow I go to get my hair fixed, my nails done and a pedicure done on my ugly feet. Friday Beth and I are going to the Funeral home. Our dear close friend in Sassy Stampers a stamping club that we belong to had a massive heart attack and died. She was just 53 yrs. old. She went into the hospital to have a hernia removed and had the heart attack. She was a dear friend and we will miss her so much. I am really worried about her Mom as she is really taking it hard. The family is very close knitted family and such a shock to them. I think Beth posted a picture of her in her blog.

My son is coming in Friday night to stay with Dad while I am gone. I didnt want to leave my hubby by himself as he has real bad dibetes. His blood sugar can drop real low and he goes into a seigure. I had him in the ER a month ago from this. He has had 2 mini strokes and doesnt walk all that great as his balance is off. Robbie his son is so good to come all the way from Oklahoma to stay with him. I have 2 sons and Beth and my hubby has 3 boys. Beth and Robbie helps us out so much, I dont know what we would do without them. Our other children lives in Alabama,Georgia and Oklahoma.

Well guess I have rattled off enough in here and guess it is a boring blog but that is my life except next week I will be kicking up my heels in the Big Apple!!!!!!!!!!!
Granny Lottie