Family Pictures in Central Park
My family is migrating to the East Coast. My brother and his wife recently moved to New Jersey, my sister Jen just moved to Boston for school and I am in New York. My mom and dad came into town with my little sister Stacey and we all hung out. We spent Friday night in NJ and Saturday in NY. It has been a couple of years since we have all been together as a family but we have finally reunited on the East Coast.
We love the Corner Bakery for brunch on the Upper East Side. It was the first restaurant my family ate at when I moved here so we make it a point to go every time my parents come to town.
My dad comes to NY often which means we have favorite restaurants picked out. One of them is Village Yokocho, a Japanese restaurant on the lower east side of Manhattan. Then..... we love to get ice cream at Van Leeuwens just a couple blocks down the street. My dad always orders an ice cream Sundae. I order one scoop of chocolate ice cream and one scoop of coffee ice cream and Stacey always gets the weird flavors no one orders just so she can try something different.
Sunday night was suppose to be movie night at the hotel room. We went to the store and bought what my dad likes to call "munchies" for the occasion, but it didn't really pan out like we had hoped it was going to. The hotel didn't have movies on demand (bummer) and nothing on Netflix sounded appealing. We started watching a documentary and realized none of us cared so we settled on the VMA awards and eventually had to turn that off once Kayne gave his awkward acceptance speech. But movie night or not we had a good time hanging out with each other, laughing, taking pictures and making snap chat stories.
Here is a picture of my cute family! My brother just got married in May, next to him is my sister Jen who like I said earlier, has moved back to Boston to start her Junior year at Boston University. Stacey is next to Jen and she is the youngest in our family. She left for London yesterday for a study abroad.
We are all at different places in our lives experiencing different things. It is an exciting time for all of us! We are young and we are trying to take advantage of every opportunity we can. Each of us have different goals and ambitions for ourselves. Even though we are all so different, we learn from each other and we have great discussions that involve all our different perspectives on life. I respect my family so much, especially my parents because they have given so much for their children. I am thankful for them and I am looking forward to hanging out with my brother and sister this Fall in our different cities. Many more fun adventures ahead!!!
