The Stories of our Lives

* In pictures. (Muahahaha!)

Our anniversary trip to NewYork was great, without any major bug, without a moment lost, filled with activities and sunny days. What more could we ask for?

It was an organized bus trip (ToursAmerique.com’s La Magie package). It was a good choice, as it saved us from all the organization details and potential problems. The suggested schedule offered various activities; we had planned to attend only a few but, in the end, we followed most of the schedule. This was the 272nd trip to NewYork of the T.A. guide in charge of our group and, with a degree in American history, he knew quite a lot about the city. He offered us many guided tours throughout the weekend, which he animated very well by spicing them up with humor and historical anecdotes. Following the group lowered the intimacy level of the trip a bit, of course, but we learned and discovered loads of things we would have missed by walking around by ourselves. A good choice, then.

I don’t want to ramble it all in the same post, first becaus it will take too long to write, and second because it would be too boring to read. I’ll split the rest of my narrative in 2-3 non-linear posts (activities, food, museums), but for now, I leave you with the photo album. 188 pictures, with comments on almost all of them; enough to re-live the trip with us, if you’d like! You can view the slideshow below, or click to access the whole Picasaweb album directly, with better quality.

(You’ll notice we appear in many of these pictures… We took a page from our friends Amélie and Nicolas’s book on their anniversary trip to Vegas, who took the opportunity to stack up on couple pictures. It’s unavoidable: we take hundreds of pictures of the kids, because they are growing up all the time, but we only appear as secondary characters in them. We told ourselves, then, that it was time to capture our faces in pictures, because we’ll enjoy reviewing them in our older years. Besides, if you’re looking for pictures of Manhattan that are Frank&Emy-free, there’s a gazillion already on the web.)

See you tomorrow, then, and enjoy the show!