First Full Day in NYC!
Well, here are some of the photos from our first day - we were busy and of course I took more than one million pictures. Even though I've whittled them down to way less than a million, I still have to break up our first day into two segments. So this should really be titled "The First Part of our First Full Day in NYC." The day started in an exciting way with a whole lot of ironing. Amy had graciously helped me buy many lovely new outfits to take on our trip, plus it's nice to have them because I was so sick of most of my clothes. Even though my new clothes are all lovely, most of them have...
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