This place is awesome.

New York is one of my favorite places. One of my favorite things to do in NYC is to ride the subway. Maybe it is because I don't get to do things like ride public transportation often but I love it! Central Park is less than a block from our hotel and that also makes me happy. I think a huge park in the middle of a city is always a good idea. It is also a good idea to have Kelly Clarkson come sing in said park! It was way cool to see Kelly(I refer to her as Kelly sometimes because we totally would be friends if we knew each other!) on Good Morning America. I also found it neat to see all thar goes into taping a live show. It rained a lot on us before the taping of the mini-concert and between breaks. For some reason, the rain seemed to stop for the show!

We also visited Liberty Island and Ellis Island. The Statue of Libery is phenominal close up. I saw her from the Staten Island Ferry years ago but being so far away from her lost the magic. Ellis Island was awesome and I was touched by the stories of families reuniting in America while I listened to the audio tour.

We also went to Times Square tonight and ate at the Hard Rock Cafe. It was way fun and I had a delicious burger. I still eat slow due to my tooth(or lack of) but the time it took to eat was well worth it!

I am tired and should now sleep. Getting up at five is hard. Getting up at five in a different time zone is even harder. So worth it to see the concert but nonetheless I must now sleep. Later!

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I am going to be in New York tomorrow afternoon. You all should come. Okay, maybe you won't but still: know you are invited.

Look for me on Good Morning America on Friday, July 31st. (THAT IS THIS FRIDAY) I will pretty much look like the picture above, except I will be surrounded by a bazillion people. You will find me in the crowd, right? I thought so.

Have a great rest of the week and if I have free internet I will update this. If not, expect lots of pictures Monday!

Bennie the Bass.

"I caught you a delicious bass." I caught this fish this afternoon. Go me. It was as fun time on the lake. I am trying to get ready for the trip to NYC. We fly out tomorrow morning. Going to be a blast.

Stuff.

I am pretty tired right now. That is weird seeing I just slept. Must be this whole: I just had a tooth yanked out of my jaw yesterday. All went well, there is no cracked tooth where it once was and fifty percent of my tooth problems have now been taken care of. I will still have to have a root canal sometime when I get back out to Utah. Lucky me!

I do have to say I was very glad that I had the nitrous oxide, even if it was also a very weird experience. I remember sitting there and actually being pretty conscious. I could hear what the doctors were saying but at the same time it was as if I was hearing them a few seconds after they had spoken. Everything they said just after I started the drug seemed very funny but at the same time I kept thinking: "Wow, do they know that they aren't very funny?" I also would go on "little vacations" during the procedure and then come back and notice things like "oh, they must have just gotten my tooth out," or "wait, they are drilling, maybe they don't have my tooth out." Then I went away for a while and came back and realized that they were putting the stitches in. It was a crazy weird journey and the whole time I was thinking to myself: "I still don't know why people would want to be in some weird state due to drugs." Seriously, it was not my favorite experience but I was glad I really wasn't totally there for the whole pulling of the tooth experience because it probably was pretty traumatic!

Here are some pictures from this past weekend. My aunt and uncle visited from Green Bay. It was nice to have them here. We had a pretty low key weekend and didn't do much but lounge around the house, which was nice. I wish I would have taken some pictures of them but I am a picture slacker sometimes.

Awesome Pie:


Yummy rootbeer that I had with some fab pizza:


My mom and I played ladder ball after dinner on Sunday. She is getting pretty darn good. We do this quite often in the summer! I love it:


This is a pretty cool picture where I actually caught one of the balls mom threw in midair:

Rain!

It is raining and I like it. This is what it looks like from my bedroom window while I am typing this. Splendid! Do you love the leftover Christmas decor? Yep, we believe in being early in this family!