A Wicked Fun Anniversary

This past Monday, Jeremy and I had our second wedding anniversary. To celebrate, we took a little trip to visit New York this weekend. On Friday night we went to the temple and then took a little walk in Central park


The next morning we took the ferry and went out to visit the statue of liberty and Ellis Island

Ellis Island was so interesting. We went on a ranger tour when we got there and followed him from room to room. He gave us a pretty good idea of what it was like to be processed through Ellis Island. One of the most interesting things he told us was that as the immigrants were walking up the stairs, they would watch them really carefully and then put different chalk marks on the clothes of the people, depending on what they thought might be wrong with them. If they put an X on your clothes you were "likely insane." If they put and X with a circle around it, you were "definitely insane." (We saw quite a few people on the New York subways that I think might have gotten that mark). The main building at Ellis island is beautiful, it's crazy when you stop and think about how many millions of people came through there.

After Ellis Island, we went to see "Wicked." It was fantastic, we loved it!

Afterward, as we were leaving the theater some of the cast came out to sign autographs,

This is the actress who played Glinda, she was my favorite! As we were window shopping on 5th Avenue after the show, we just happened to see Glinda and Elphaba again, hehe
Definitely my favorite part of our trip was our dinner that night at L'Ecole, the restaurant associated with the French Culinary Institute. The food there was some of the best I've ever had. Here is a link to the menu for the night we ate there: http://www.frenchculinary.com/pdf/TRS060710.pdf. They even brought us out a special dessert for our anniversary!