Brit in the City

My auntie and cousin Brittany visited from Florida last week and although we spent most of the week swooning over the babies at home (Evalie and my sisters son), we did get a chance to get out a bit. Our outings were a compromise between what she likes to do, where I could handle going with two kids (and all that involves) and shopping which we all love! We went to Garden state plaza mall one day which was ok, we went to dinner a few times and on their last day here, we took the train into Penn Station and spent the day in the city. It was kind of like a real New York experience except we skipped the subway and walked mostly and we spent a fair amount of time in "The Macy's"..a nine floor mega department store. We ate at Chef Yu which everyone liked and then had some street meat after our shopping marathon. It was really nice to see them since we rarely see them for some reason. Basically, we see each other at weddings and funerals (luckily we haven't had many of those!) Its actually like that with most of my family, they live all over from Manchester and Leicester in the UK, Lagos, Virginia, Ontario, in total, I have 17 cousins and even though years pass in between our visits, when we do get together we have a blast...miss you all!