Tuesday, November 30, 2010

The Big Arch and The Big Apple

St. Louis and New York City in the same week? Let the adventures begin!!


Whoa, that's a big arch. Well, guess that's it, let's head back to the hotel. Wait...what? There's a museum under it? Mmmmhmmm, just like the Alamo has a basement, right?


Well shorten my neck and call me a cheetah, there is a museum in the basement of the arch! And who would have ever guessed that William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition would be such a dang creeper?


Hey Lowell! We're headed back to Texas at the end of the week, wanna come with us? We gotta make a stop in NYC first, but I'm sure Daddy wouldn't mind. Think you could fit in the overhead compartment on the plane?


Hey, you think it could be the Mississippi River? Maybe it's the ocean....inside joke...


We ate dinner at the cool little steak place right off the river. There were cobblestone streets, old brick buildings, and fun old-school lamp posts. Daddy kept insisting the restaurant was an old brothel...oh Dad and his brothel obsession....


Well get this...we leave St Louis bound for NYC and we have a layover in...that's right, DFW. So we headed over to the super swank terminal D and found this awesome little alcove with big fluffy chairs and TVs and watched the series finale of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It could've been worse.


The view from our hotel room. I stinkin love New York City!! Holy hippo crap I wanna go back!


Times Sq getting some tickets. What are we gonna see!?!?!


Ooooooo Let's see Avenue Q! It stars puppets, what good, clean fun we're going to have! Well after hearing songs like 'Everyone's a Little Bit Racist' and 'I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today' and with characters like 'Lucy the Slut' I realized my first impressions were a bit misguided. I don't think BYU will be performing this production anytime soon, but even though Dad had to cover my eyes during the puppet sex scene, Dad still just about fell out of his chair laughing his kiester off throughout the show.


Washington Square. This was where all the vampire zombies made their final assault on Will Smith during the movie I am Legend. If only we were lucky enough to meet Will Smith!


Sushi in Greenwich Village. No big deal


Let's go Rangers! Clap-clap-clap, clap, clap! Oh, and V-neck sighting number 1,543,779.


Dad has been waiting forever to see Next to Normal. He thinks it's his favorite musical but I kinda wanna go back and see Lucy the Slut.


Our last night in the City. We were making our way back to the hotel we stop off at Bryant Park which was right across the street.
Sigh...Dad, I don't wanna leave!
Fine, you can stay here, Lil G
Please, you know full well someone as cute and adorable as me wouldn't stand a chance here without a pocket to hide in.
Fine, let's go back to the Great Lone Star State.


Ok, we thought we were headed back to the Great Lone Star State. Change of plans...our flight out of JFK was canceled so we had to head across Queens to LaGuardia. Apparently they shut down some of the highways around here when there's some standing water. That doesn't stop, Nabiib, the suicidal shuttle bus driver from hell, from keeping his schedule. Weaving in and out of jammed side streets and neighborhoods, jumping medians, and heading head-on into oncoming traffic were all part of our final adventure in the Big Apple!!

Friday, November 19, 2010

This is the Place, Apparently...

Dad reserved a 'Full Size' car from Avis for his trip to Salt Lake City. Apparently a Ford Expedition is what Utahionians consider full size. When Dad told me we weren't going to the SLC Zoo and then proceeded to mock my whining-yet mature-protests, I couldn't be more thankful for the three rows of seats.


Again with the excess....Here's Dad's room....


And across the living room and kitchen....here's my room! Ugh...no DVR?!?! How am I supposed to live like this? What am I, some kind of animal?


Seriously? Traffic in SLC? Holy crap, people are bailing left and right over the median and only one State Trooper to maintain peace! These people are crazzzzzy!


Tell me when the insanity is over! Holy crap I look cute!


Yay! Family prayer! U-U-U-U-UCREW! That's what Dad's family did after family prayer....which is....normal.


Behold, Brother Brigham, the choicest beast of all the beasts of the field!


What would be a trip to SLC without a visit to Temple Square? Hey, where's Sister Rasmussen? There is a giraffe that needs a tour up in this mess!


Dear Uncle Richie, please refrain from your attempts to one-up me in being adorable. I know how frustrated you can get, but I appreciate the challenge. Now Michelle, please lower me gently so as to not create a sudden draft that might mess up my mane.


We saw The Taming of the Shrew and everyone was all, 'Lil G, go take a picture with some cast members. Hey Lil G, get on top of her head' and I was all, 'Uh, let's have some respect for the arts people.' and they were all 'uh' and I was all 'fine'


'Hey Lil G, now get all up in the set'


'Hey Lil G, now get up in the little boat!'
'HEY! I'm not some mindless meerkat to prance around on some Animal Planet miniseries for your amusement!