The first of April I was able to go out to Pennsylvania and visit Jaron, Heather, and the kids for a week!
It was a great visit...the kids were on Spring Break and so we got to spend a lot of time together! We got to have a day of shopping and a day that we made cookies and decorated them. The kids all did a very good job making cute cookies, even though I didn't get any pictures. We also cooked and colored Easter Eggs and got ready for the Easter Bunny to arrrive!
Emmy 11, Carter 9, Ashton 7, and Lilly 4
Easter Morning! The Easter Bunny brought the kids a basket with swimming suits, glasses and fun water shoes and towels for some summer fun! Lilly showing off her new shades!
Emmy was pretty excited about her suit and wrap.
Carter...and the cool Mr. Ashton!
Jaron, Emmy, Carter and I took off one day to go into the city and have a little fun in NYC! I had been there when I was young and remembered it being crowded and dirty...so I decided I better go again and get another look at the place! Still pretty crowded...but it was a fun day! This is looking up at the New World Trade Center that they are building. This was the view as soon as we got off the train!
It was a windy and cool day, but we were ready to go!
Here was one of the memorial walls for all the NY Policement.
Another view of the New World Trade Center.
Ground Zero Memorial.
I saw so many Jewish families like this one!! They were everywhere! This guys mink hat was pretty interesting. The little boys heads were all shaved except for their "wings" (the long ringlets). The men dressed in a Black satin Dressing Coat with knee high white socks and very strange hats, the women were all dressed in black, always a dress, and a black little bonnet.
Statue of Liberty as we rode by on the Staten Island Ferry.
A look back at the City from Staten Island.
Jaron and the kids outside of the Ferry Depot.
Here we are riding the subway!
We spent a little time and money in Chinatown! Then it was time to go on down to Time Square!
There are so many jumbo trons! They are lined up vertically, and horizontally for the space of about 8 or 10 city blocks. Everything was so colorful and bright! Very Busy!
This gives you an idea of how crowded and busy it is...on the streets, on the sides of the buildings, and everywhere you look!
This was in Times Square, the outside of Toys R Us!
I didn't notice this guy when I took the picture...I was looking at Mickey Mouse, but notice those dreadlocks!! Holy cow!
Inside is HUGE! Three stories tall with every kind of toy you can imagine!
There is a ferris wheel in the center of the store!
There were some pretty cool Lego sculptures there...the Statue of Liberty...
The Empire State building...and many, many more!
The kids by the animated dinosaur at the Jurasik Park section.
We also visited the M & M store! Most expensive M & M's I've ever bought! $12.99 a lb...lol!
Jaron took me to Hershey, PA on our way to the airport my last day. We got to visit Chocolate World! Talk about a wonderful smell!! Very hard to be there and be on a diet!
Even the street lamps are cool in Hershey. They are all Chocolate kisses!
Filling the Chocolate Syrup bottles...
Making the kisses...
Packaging the Kit Kats...
The chocolate sheets.
Soooooo much chocolate!
We took a little ride for the Chocolate tour. Mostly for kids...but it was fun!
Really a fun little place to visit! You will see Brent and I wearing our Chocolate Shirts!!
I loved visiting PA...one last time...because as of about June, the Simonson family will be moving back here very close! Yes, they are coming back to Idaho! Jaron and the kids will be spending most of the summer here with us in Inkom, and Heather has taken a job at the hospital in Burley, so after her graduation the end of July, she will be ready to start the new job and they will all be moving to Burley! We are glad they will be closer to family and cousins! So, farewell Pennsylvania!
