New Jersey and come New York

This past weekend I had to go to Parsippany, New Jersey to speak on behalf of Ipsen Pharmaceuticals. The conference wasn't until Saturday, and it lasted only until 1:30pm. My mom and my sisters decided to come with me to support me through my speech. Since I was there because of Ipsen I had to stay at the hotel they put me at, which was a 76 minute train ride one way into the city. Since it was such a long ride into the city we didn't have as much time there as we would have liked.

We made the best of it though and still had a fabulous time! We arrived at Newark on Friday a little after 2pm, once we got to the hotel got settled and changed, we headed out to the city for some Friday night fun. We had been given a recommendation for the best restaurant in the city, Gramercy Tavern. They didn't take reservations, so once we got the there we had to wait almost 3 hours for a table. We enjoyed sipping on wine and enjoying each others company. The food was amazing, and the atmosphere was beautiful. We got back late to the hotel, and since I had to get up early for my conference we went straight to bed. I woke up and headed to my conference. I was a little nervous to speak, but did well. I was so honored to be part of such a specialized topic. After the conference we headed back into the city, we hit some hot spots. We were a little bummed that we didn't have more time, but again we took advantage of the time we did have! We hit ground zero, a sobering place but still very neat to see, times square, Madison square garden, empire state building, little Italy. We had an amazing Italian meal in little Italy before making our way back to Jersey.

The next day, since we didn't have a ton of time before we had to head to the airport, we decided to do a little sleeping in, and hit the spa.

It was a fast trip, but a lot of fun. We laughed a lot, had good food, saw very cool things, and I was part of an amazing conference. I want to give a special thank you to Bev (my mother in law) for being an amazing Grandma and helping with the kids all day so that could go on this trip! Thank you, thank you! Also, to Joe, you are wonderful! Thank you for all of your love and support through every phase of this!