In any case, after seeing several posts from Amber and her mom Marci over at Thankful Homemaker (you can link to her most recent post as well), I have become inspired to try to do something similar.
This weeks travels took me to two places. I started out the week in Manhattan, staying at the W Downtown which is across from what I still refer to, almost 13 years later, as "Ground Zero."
This was the view from my hotel room, looking at the new WTC building, the memorial area and museum which is still under construction.
On Tuesday night I was supposed to fly into Washington DC (for those of you who know the area - I was flying into Reagan); however, Mother Nature had other plans and my flight was cancelled, and I was scheduled on a flight to land the next day at 3:50 PM - yeah, that wasn't going to work. Fortunately, I've become very adept at being able to find alternative options, and booked an Amtrak for the next morning. Of course, there were no hotels in the downtown area so I ended up moving up to Times Square.
View from the Westin Times Square - It was after 8:00 when I got there, so not much of a shot, but still wanted to capture it. This is the same hotel that my family stayed at when I brought them out to NYC a few years ago to see the tree lighting at Rockefeller.
I have no other pictures of this week's trip - For those of you who were on the RLHS Choir Trip back when we sang at Carnegie Hall, I meant to snap a picture of the infamous Pennsylvania Hotel we stayed at (you know, the one with the big old cockroaches), since it's right across from Penn Station. Chalk it up to the fact that this was my second early morning of the week (I am SO not a morning person) and I was running a little later than I'd hoped, but I didn't grab one. I also opted not to snap any pictures of DC as I was driving through...probably a good idea.
I leave you with two final pictures that represent a Good Friday tradition we've had as long as I can remember. We don't eat meat on Good Friday (the uber liberal United Church of Christ would probably like to see me excommunicated for such an idea - tradition is a bad word), so when I was a kid Grandma always made us "Good Friday Rice" (i.e. Rice Pudding) that we'd eat for dinner, I'm keeping that tradition alive.
The finished product - come on 6:00 get here already - I'm hungry.
The aftermath - after doing this for 8 years, one would think I wouldn't let the double boiler run dry....I was ohsoclose to being done this year. UGH. My next house will have a gas stove...
May you all have a blessed Easter Weekend.
