Day 1: Flew out of PHX at 11:00 pm...arrived at JFK 7:00 am. Flight was pretty good because Keaton slept through most of it. Had breakfast with Grandpa Marty, played at a nice park, headed out to Elaine and Joe's place in NJ had a nice dinner with a few of their friends and family for Rosh Hashanah
Day 2: Picked up Aunt Jenn, went to see Joanne and Mike, had lunch with Marty, headed back to Jersey. We barbequed outside for dinner. It was so nice. Almost chilly outside especially considering we came from temps over 100 here. Keaton loved it there...the horses, chickens, dogs. He really just loved being outside. Plus he had a ton of new friends and family to entertain him. Later that evening we went to see Jackie and Justin's new house and to introduce them to Keaton, since he wasn't coming to the wedding with us. Then back to NY - we stayed the night at John's place
Day 3: Jennifer rode the train in with Elaine. After we met up with her we headed out to a parade. It was for Westchester County fire departments. We watched bands and bagpipers and lots of fire engines. Keaton loved the music and we waved when "Uncle John" came by in his SUV playing lots of fun sirens for us. We also got to see Nicole and her mother and pics of Melissa's wedding. Later we met back up with Grandpa Marty for dinner at the diner :)
Day 4: The wedding - Josh and I were gone from about 11 - 5 for Jackie and Justin's wedding. So everyone else was in charge of watching Keaton. They all had a great time with him...of course. He especially loved driving the golf cart with Joe. We all went out to eat...Elaine, Joe, Marty, Jennifer, Josh, Deanna & Keaton at a Chinese buffet that Josh just really loves. It is pretty big I would have to agree.
Day 5: Monday...we're going home...this was a bit of a crazy day. We spent some time at the mall buying Keaton some NY stuff...a Yankees outfit and a Jets jersey. Met up with Marty again for some lunch at an Irish place with the "best burgers in town" later we saw that same sign on another restaurant. I guess here it was like we drove from Gilbert to Mesa...so we technically were in another town. They were very good burgers. We stopped by a bakery to take some good stuff home with us and we said good-bye to Aunt Jenn and Grandpa Marty. We did a little walking around and headed to the airport....long story short....Josh missed the flight so Keaton and I had long flight home...two dirty diapers and plenty of wiggling on a very full flight! Luckily Josh made it home safe and sound the next morning (although he ate all the cookies I bought for my family).
It was our first MAJOR trip with Keaton and everything is a little difficult with a 1 year old but we survived and he was on his best behavior for everyone he met. Hopefully our NY family and friends will make it out here for Josh's graduation in May. We also plan on going there again before Keaton turns 2 and it costs us money for him to fly.
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