Our last few trips to Manhattan - week of August 27th

My (Charlie's) parents came in town as Brady was a little bit older - 3 weeks by this time :).  He isn't sleeping through the night yet, but he was starting to sleep 4 or 5 hours, so getting out to do things was a little bit easier than it was in the first week or so.  So Katie and I got to have separate side trips to Manhattan while Mom and Dad were here.

On Tuesday, Dad and I went down for a brief trip to grab lunch at Carnegie Deli.  Katie and I went there for lunch during our first Thanksgiving in New Jersey, after going to the Macy's Parade. Dad and I had also been there a few years before on a trip to New York.  Carnegie Deli is famous for having huge Deli Sandwiches:

That's just one sandwich!  Basically, we probably should have just split one sandwich (though we made the same mistake the first trip).  Dad got pastrami, while I got corned beef.  We each ate half, and brought the rest home for a future meal.  We also walked through Times Square on the way back and stopped by Junior's, which is a famous New York cheesecake restaurant.  I got a full cheesecake to go so we could have some dessert later in the week.

We also stopped by the Empire State Building (before lunch) and went to the top there, which was something my Dad hadn't done yet.

Maybe more importantly, Katie and Leslie got the chance to get out of the house.  This was really Katie's first chance to do something away from the baby since Brayden was born.  So as scary as it may have been leaving Dad and Grandpa in charge! (we did fine)  The 2 ladies did lunch and a play in Manhattan.  Lunch was at Ruby Foo's, an asian cuisine restaurant that we'd had a year or so earlier.  The show was a new Matthew Broderick musical called "Nice Work if You Can Get It", a musical comedy based in the prohibition era.  Katie is still recuperating a bit - so she was tired after a fairly full day away.  But it was good for her to get down to the city and have a day of fun!