(little) Mr. New York

Neither of Landon's grandmothers went on an airplane until they were 21 years old but he's now been on four round trip flights and he's not even seven months old yet. The most recent trip was to NYC. Mike Leraris, a good friend of mine from college, got married in the city over the weekend.

LT is shown above sitting in his mom's seat on the airplane. No big deal to him - he's done this many times before!


Although this picture doesn't really show it, our hotel room was unbelievably small. LT didn't seem to mind, however, and he thought the wallpaper was really really cool - it helped mom entertain him while she let dad go out with some of his old friends on Friday night.


What our room lacked in size it made up for in location - we were just a few blocks from Times Square (almost pictured above - you'd see it if you could look a little to the left!). As you can see from the smile on his face, LT loved walking around the city and just taking it all in.


We were also very close to Rockefeller Center and the famous Christmas tree (the gentlemen that took this picture didn't get much of the tree though). Unfortunately we were there only on the weekend so Kari didn't get to see any of her favorite Today Show talent.


Our big NYC site seeing outing consisted of taking a walk to Central Park. We were in one of the biggest cities in the world and what do we do? We go to the park. But really, what else would you expect from some native Coloradans?


The view at the wedding reception, held on the 64th floor of 30 Rock, was nothing short of amazing. And to think I used to be impressed by the view from my 33rd floor apartment in downtown Denver...

LT and his mom were looking pretty good too, if I do so so myself!


I am the first to have a baby among this particular group of friends from college. Landon was a huge hit among the current or soon to be wives of many of those guys. I'm sure that some of them are cursing my name at this very moment.




We woke up at 5 AM to ensure we'd make our morning flight out of JFK. Little did we know the flight had been canceled and we'd end up spending almost as much time in the airport as we did anywhere else that weekend.

In spite of the huge delays, LT was a great traveler! Even better than his parents much of the time!

So instead of a direct flight home at 8 in the morning we spent the day in the airport and had to make a connection in Cincinnati (and nearly missed it) which didn't get us home until about 8 that night. We did get to sit in first class on the way home however, which was nice...