Ryan & Megan's Visit

Two of our most FAVORITE people came to visit us from Logan a few weeks ago!

Ryan and Megan Jones flew in on April 3rd and let Bryant and I drag them around the city!

We visited the City Hall area in Lower Manhattan

(That gold statue at the top of it is 25 feet tall to give you an idea of its size.)

 Next was the Brooklyn Bridge

 Later that night we ended up in Times Square, but the rain put a damper on things.

The next day we toured a few midtown places and ended up at the corner of Central Park near the Plaza Hotel.

Bryant stopped at a food truck to grab us some hot chocolate. While Ryan, Megan, and I were waiting, one of the guys that gives PediCab tours of Central Park decided to come and pester us. After I repeated "NO!" about a dozen times, Ryan and Megan got to see the sassy side of me.

After the bike man left, Ryan's keen eye spotted Leah Remini inside one of the carriages in the middle of filming something.

Incase you forgot who she was:

 Back to people we care about...

These two handsome guys!

You can see from the evidence that we had to hit Dylan's Candy Bar:

Saturday, April 5th, we went to Chinatown and boarded a bus to take us to Washington, DC.

It was about a four hour bus ride that dropped us off at Union Station.

We then walked over to the Capitol Building and hung out there while we waited for more of our FAVORITE people to arrive: Dave, Becca, and Tessa Lee!!

We really just lounged on the steps and munched on Dylan's Candy.

 We wandered through a few of the Smithsonian Museums.

(Becca was very proud of the dinosaur from Utah!)

Inside the Natural History Museum we were able to see The Hope Diamond.

(45.52 carats, worth $250 million)

 

 Washington Monument

The White House

(How adorable, right?!)

The golf picture was taken during the Fall of 2002.

Since this was my THIRD official visit to Washington, DC, I had to post my side-by-side pics:

Left: July 2011               Right: April 2014

 Back to Dave being our amazing tour guide in-action:

 Later that evening the boys rode the Metro out to where Dave and Becca live and the girls rode with Becca in the car.

Tessa and I were buddies...until she woke up.

(Story of my life.)

We ate dinner at a yummy restaurant at the Tyson's Corner Mall, then zonked out for the night.

Sunday, April 6th, Dave picked up Ryan, Megan, Bryant, and I and drove us to Arlington National Cemetery.

Left: 2006        Bottom: 2014       Right: 2011  

Dave decided to meet us at the Lincoln Memorial while the four of us walked across the Arlington Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River.

Lincoln Memorial

We asked some random lady to take a picture for us with my phone. The poor thing kept hitting the 'home' button so we were lucky after a few tries to get a picture with her finger covering 1/4 of it.

At least she tried(multiple times)!

We had to catch our bus back to NYC and had to say goodbye to Dave.

(Thanks again, Dave!!)

The drive back to New York took quite a bit longer (closer to 5 hours) so once we arrived, we were starving.

We took Ryan and Megan to Greenwich Village so they could experience some real NYC Style Pizza.

After eating, we parted ways. Ryan and Megan went to Washington Heights to visit more friends and we went back to Brooklyn. 

We were able to see them one more time before they flew back home on Monday.

We had SO much fun and are so glad they were able to visit (and that we were able to visit Dave & Becca too!)

MISS YOU GUYS!!