The Cross Happy Family

Eliza was given an amazing graduation gift from her Aunt Tammy and her cousin Heather - a trip to New York City!! It was an amazing and wonderful experience for Eliza.We'll never be able to thank Tammy and Heather enough! The following is just a fraction of the hundreds of pictures they took on the trip. Since it was Eliza's experience, I had her write all the captions. She did a great job!! Before going to New York, she spent some time in Maryland with family.

The first seven pictures are kindof a "preview" of their trip - purchased pics taken at some of their big events. Next are a group of pictures of Eliza with family members during her time in Maryland. The rest are snapshots from her time in NYC.

This is at the Hard Rock Cafe. Behind us was a big wall covered in guitars.

Tammy, Heather and I at the Circle Line Cruise.

We were at the Empire State Building.

This was at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum.

I believe this was at the Empire State Building.

This was at Wicked on Broadway. AMAZING!!!

This was at FAO Schwartz, one of the biggest toy stores. They had a giant piano that you could walk on and it would light up and play.

Nana and I at Gaga's.

Jenni and I at Gaga's.

Julie and I at Gaga's.

Gaga and I at Gaga's. :)

Heather and I at Red Robin.

Wayne and Tammy at Red Robin.

This was when we first arrived in Times Square.

This was at the biggest Toys R Us I've ever seen. They had tons of way cool things made out of Legos.

I believe that this is the fountain that inspired the FRIENDS fountain.

Tammy and I

We went to a very large Build-A-Bear and I saw this graduation bear for 2012 and it was dressed in black and gold which were the colors of my high school, so I had to get it :)

They had a Times Square Visitor's Center and there was the New Year's Eve Ball from 2007 inside.

Inside the Center there was a wall dedicated to Dick Clark that had pieces of confetti from New Year's tacked on it where people had written things about Dick Clark.

Tammy and I in front of the ball.

Heather and I.

Heather and I in front of a huge Hershey's shop.

We went to a small diner one night for dinner called Stardust Diner. At this diner, they have the waitresses and waitors who are aspiring singers who want to be on Broadway sing and perform throughout the night. These were two of the servers in this picture and the next one.

Me at the Diner.

Another performer/server.

Heather and I in front of the Diner.

Heather and I in front of a Wicked sign.

Tammy and I.

Tammy, Heather, and I in front of a prop thingy inside the theatre where we saw Wicked on Broadway.

Heather and I inside the Hershey's store.

Me in Times Square at night.

Tammy, Heather, and I on the Water Taxi.

In front of the Statue of Liberty.

This picture was taken at the 9/11 Memorial site. It was absolutely breathtaking. There was this fountain and another one marking the spots where the two towers stood. All around the fountains were all of the names of the people who died due to the tragedies of 9/11. There were also red and white roses all around it.

Tammy and I in front of one of the fountains.

This tree had been struck by lightning like three times and was still alive, although barely.

All along the fence there was blue poster board like this one with pictures of the aftermath of 9/11 and people had signed it giving thanks to the fire departments, police departments, and other organizations that had helped.

At my very first Broadway Musical!!!

I believe this was on top of the Empire State Building, as are the next three pictures.

Heather and I about to get on the cruise.

The New York skyline.

The Statue of Liberty.

This was on a double decker bus tour.

They gave us rain ponchos because it was kinda sprinkling.

We went to Brooklyn on the tour.

View of Manhattan from Brooklyn.

Inside one of the churches.

These next bunch of pictures are not with real celebrities, although I wish they were! :) We went to Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum after the bus tour and some of the figures were so lifelike I apologized if I accidentally ran into them! :) This one is John Travolta.