5 Years

Intermixed with posts about our adventures in Venezuela, I am going to catch our readers up on our summer in the States. In August, Kenny and I celebrated 5 glorious years of marriage. With the help of some dear friends in DC, we were able to leave our kids behind and run away to New York for two fun-filled, action-packed days. This is not our first weekend getaway to New York, but it is the first since Caleb was born and we enjoyed every, single second. We slept here:

the Shoreham Hotel in Midtown - it is an old hotel that has been recently updated -
the beds were to die for comfortable and each room has a massage chair

stuffed ourselves silly here:

Five Guys is one of our favorite DC haunts and we were delighted
to discover this one right next to our hotel

and here:

if you are a fan or diner food, especially of the breakfast variety
and you have never been here, you need to go, now,
the stuffed french toast is out of this world

shopped here:

I don't even like to shop, but I LOVE shopping on 5th Avenue

and here:

frankly, we have been so starved for book stores we probably could have spent
the whole weekend here and been perfectly content

saw performances of this:

we usually only ever see musicals when we are in NY, but Kenny really
wanted to see this - not so much a happy play,
but we enjoyed it and the acting was very, very good

and this:

fun, fun, fun

and, last but not least, this:

these are the Tony Award nominated and winning stars of the show
and they were spectacular

What a great time we had - we couldn't have asked for more or better!

It seems impossible that it has already been 5 years, but 2 kids, 1 bar exam (he passed the first time!!), 3 countries, 2 major job changes, trips to Ireland, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina and France, 1 criminal defense attorney, 8 passports, 1 theater debut, thousands of frequent flyer miles, dozens of Cipro tablets, 2 Wonders of the World, 2 Red Sox World Championships, 4 sets of luggage, too many kitchen gadgets and hundreds of bedtime stories and songs later we are happier than we ever thought imaginable and looking forward to the next 5, make that 55 years.