Posts filed under Holidays

January 19, 2011

New York: New Years Eve in Times Square

Ahhh, the New Years Eve celebration in Times Square! It was the reason we were in New York and the reason we were huddled in what was essentially a barriered-off mosh pit with hundreds of other people, rugged up against the cold night and preparing ourselves for the seven-hour wait until midnight, when the giant [...]

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January 15, 2011

New York: Day 2

We set our alarms nice and early for day two (New Year’s Eve) of our New York trip, since we were pretty sure if left to our own devices, we would sleep until midday due to the fact that we’d essentially missed a whole night’s sleep on the flight over. We decided to catch the [...]

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January 8, 2011

New York: Day 1

New York was beautiful! Even with the dirty snow from the crazy blizzard piled throughout the city and even though we were there over new year’s and there were literally millions of people crushed into the city (think the usual population of over 8 million people, plus all the tourists who flocked in to see [...]

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December 31, 2010

New York, New York!

Argh, I just wrote a huge post on my iPhone and the WordPress app crashed and I lost everything! It’s 2:30am and I’m crazy tired but I wanted to say HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! We just got home from watching the ball drop in Times Square! That’s right… we’re in New York! We were due [...]

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December 28, 2010

Christmas 2010: Year of the Turducken!

Actually, Christmas 2009 was meant to be the year of the turducken but I left it too late to order one – by the time I called on the Tuesday before Christmas, the butcher informed me that the cut-off for orders was at 1pm that very day and as I had called a little after [...]

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