All growing up I watched Dick Clark drop the ball on Time Square to usher in a new year. This year for my 34th birthday, my friend Liz and I decided that we too, needed to drop the ball and go to New York. We packed our bags and headed off to Time Square, where we would find our hotel, The Millenium.
We had two fun filled days walking throughout New York, one in the pouring rain, the other with blue skies. I think we accomplished about everything you can do - we saw "Wicked" on broadway, ate a hot dog in Central Park, cried at Ground Zero, saw the Statue of Liberty, walked the Brooklyn Bridge in the pouring rain, ate pizza at Grimaldi's, shopped at H&M, took pictures on top of the Rockefeller Center, fell asleep on the subway, and saw the exhibit"Bodies" on the pier.
We then hopped on the Amtrak, down to D.C. where we 
stayed in the mission home with Liz's parents who are the Mission Presidents of the D.C. South mission. Our stay wasn't very long, but long enough to know that rest is a rare commodity in that home.
