New York - First week!

We flew to New York on May 27th, and we thought we would play for a week and a half til Jeremy had to actually go to work. Jeremy will be doing investment banking, and the hours are pretty bad so we thought we would get our playing in before he starts work on June 7th.

So, the nightmare begins... We first of all take a red-eye there. Not a good idea with young kids that love sleeping in their cribs. Jackson did great, he played the first hour and slept the rest of the time. He is a deep sleeper and can sleep anywhere once he's out. Ty on the other hand doesn't really sleep in the car (unless he's absolutely exhausted) and especially not planes. So I had to walk around and rock him til he eventually fell asleep. He slept for an hour of the 4 1/2 hour flight, but was still so exhausted he would scream and couldn't even play because he was so tired. Once we get there, we have sooooo much stuff and finally get our rental car. We get to our 1 BR apartment we found to rent on W 86th street right off Central Park West. It was horrible.... I don't know why we have such poor luck on apartments, but the kitchen was pretty much the size of a closet. The fridge was a 70 year old mini fridge that wasn't even cleaned out for us. The microwave and oven were the size of an easy bake oven. I knew everything would be old, but i was grossed out to even put our cups or anything in the kitchen. The bathroom was old and gross and the worse part was it was part of the bedroom. We were planning on sleeping in the living room and the kids were going to be in the bedroom, but if we wanted to use the bathroom once they kids went to sleep they would wake up. This was a huge issue for us since we were having visitors come stay with us. "Sorry, after 8pm you can't use the bathroom." :) The tv didn't work, the bed was suppose to be a queen and it was a full, and the final straw was that there were big french door type windows with no screen in the living room that couldn't have child locks on them and we were on the 8th floor and it just freaked me out to worry about my kids opening the windows and falling out.

To say the least, we hated the apartment and i didn't sleep that whole night even though we were exhausted from the red-eye the night before. I ended up getting up at 5am to start packing up our stuff. Luckily we didn't sign a contract yet and so paid the guy $300 for his time and for the one night we stayed. We had rented a car so we could go get some things we needed so it was nice to have the car to keep all our stuff in. We then drove to a hotel in White Plains that night so we could drop the car off at a return place near by. Since it was memorial day weekend the hotels were pretty expensive in the city so we went 30 minutes north. And the car was killing us at over $200 a day with it being memorial day weeekend. So we returned the car and stayed at a Hyatt Summerfield Suites for 3 nights. It was so nice to finally be somewhere clean and nice and have normal beds and fridges and bathrooms. :) As to our luck we booked a 1 BR suite and it was a handicap room, so they upgraded us to a 2 bedroom suite. Jackson got to sleep in a huge keep size bed.
The kids are happy to finally have a nice room and a place to call home (for a few days, anyways). The boys enjoyed watching some tv on their huge king size bed.