January Highlights- A Quick Trip to NYC and a BIG Snowstorm

In January Kent spent a week with his family out in Washington.  He didn't take any pictures, so I don't have any to post here.

. While he was out of town, I decided to take a spur-of-the-moment trip to New York City. I checked the weather and saw that it was supposed to be fairly mild, so I asked a friend if she wanted to join me. We took the DC to NY bus on a Thursday morning and came home on Friday evening.

I've been to NYC three times now, and there's always somewhre I haven't had the chance to see yet. 

On this trip I wanted to go to the United Nations Headquarters Building. After we dropped off our suitcases at our hotel we took the subway there. 

We had to get a pass and go through security to get into UN compound. The sculpture below was before we entered the main building.

We were able to go on a tour, which took us through many of the council and large meeting rooms.

I thought this Norman Rockwell painting was neat.

We saw this view of the Chrysler building from the United Nations.

After our tour of the UN, we had dinner at a cafeteria style restaurant and then walked to the theater district to see "Finding Neverland". I'd heard it was very good and was excited to see it.

I was disappointed that neither of the big name stars were performing on the night we attended, but I was pleasantly surprised by how well the understudies did. The play itself was very enjoyable, with great acting and great music. I loved it.

The next day we went to the 9/11 memorial and museum. This is a view of the new World Trade Center Tower.

Below is part of the memorial. When I went to it before it was night time, so it was nice to see it in the daytime.

The museum was very well done with lots of recordings, videos and first person accounts from all of the areas that were affected by 9/11, not just New York City.

It's hard to believe it's been 15 years since that day.

We spent most of the day in the museum, then checked out of the hotel and got on the bus back to Virginia.

On the weekend starting January 22nd, we had our biggest snowfall of the winter.

It started falling Friday afternoon and continued through Saturday evening.

By the time it stopped it had snowed almost eighteen inches.

Kent and I both took turns shoveling all that deep and heavy snow.

Because it was windy, the snow blew up onto our porch, even though it's covered.

In this picture I was trying to capture the snow on my "Let it Snow" sign. Very appropriate!

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The snow on our back deck also drifted up against the door, but was packed tightly enough that it didn't fall into the house when I opened the door to take a picture of how deep it was.

A view of our back deck and back yard.

Every time we have one of these big snowstorms we talk about how we're too old to be out shoveling snow, and that we should get a snowblower.

The snow also blew into our newspaper box. Kent pulled that chunk of snow out of it.

Church was cancelled that Sunday and the schools were closed for over a week. The county never came down our road to plow us out, but the men in the neighborhood who had snowblowers cleared our road so we could drive out by Tuesday.