Friday, November 7th at 6:00pm the whole gang piled onto the China Town Bus with a direct route from DC to NYC!  Yep, everyone from DC came into town for a weekend of shopping, eating, laughing, and of course theater!

One would think since everyone arrived on Friday night that our weekend of fun would start first thing on Saturday morning, right…wrong!  We didn’t make it out of the apartment until 2:00pm on Saturday afternoon; this group really takes “sleeping-in” to a whole new level!  (I guess it doesn’t help that I have “black-out blinds” in the living room which does not allow any light to come through, and as a result you have no idea if it is 2:00am or 2:00pm outside! 🙂 hee hee)

Once we made it out of the house our first destination was going to be H&M! It was a great idea when we left, however on our way there we ran into a street fair which distracted us from our original destination for several hours.  Street fairs in NY are great (a lot like China Town) because you can get a lot of stuff for really cheap!  Once all our bags were sufficiently piled high with $10 items we decided to split from the street fair and do some real shopping…destination H&M!  Do you think we were able to walk straight from the street fair without stopping by six other stores? Not a chance!  By the time we got to H&M everyone was exhausted and our pocket books were  nearly empty.  After an hour of looking around we decided that it was time to abort all shopping plans and head to dinner!

For dinner, KA and I separated from the rest of the group and met of with some of her old roommates from Utah who were in town for the weekend.  We ate at a great burger place called Stand which is known for their delicious Toasted Marshmallow shakes and juicy burgers!  It was fun to laugh about the good old days and catch up on the events happening back home.

After dinner KA and I headed home for a classic night!  (Little Background Story): When KA an I were roommates we use to hangout on our beds every night talking and giggling until all hours.   Topics would range from: what we did during the day, things that drive us crazy, stress us out, make us laugh, make us cry, future husbands, the gospel, friends, clothes, money, and the most popular topic… where should we go on our next vacation! In fact, if you were to rewind two years ago, you would have found that our late night topics were often about how amazing it would be to live in New York, Washington DC, or anywhere on the East Coast.  At the end of each night, and especially ones that involved us dreaming or hoping of better and bigger things, we would always say:  ” Your dreams can’t come true if you don’t have any!”

This is us living our dream!