Road trip to New Jersey and NYC

We drove through the night on Thursday and got to Cath and Brian's early on Friday. Caden and Celeste were awesome and slept most of the way. Celeste was SO excited to see auntie Cathleen. Overall, the trip was great. Except for getting a parking ticket and boot on the new car, everything went smoothly. Apparently in Hoboken, they can boot your car for any parking violation. They even force you remove the boot yourself and return it to the city parking dept. Highlights were walking around Hoboken, Bagels and breakfast rolls, going shopping in NYC, Magnolia cupcakes, chilling at the condo, going to the museum (Celeste), and Jenine's wedding. Thanks to Cath and Brian for being great hosts. Your place is sweet!!

Here's the pics (click to supersize)


Here's Caden doing his best J.Crew pose at Cathleen and Brian's


Here we are trying to dodge the rain (and aggressive female earth conservationists) at the Frozen Monkey in Hoboken. Sandwiches and salads followed by cold concoctions of Tasti D-lite were the fare along with the Magnolia recipe cupcakes (we eventually got the originals though).


Don't be fooled. At this point, Caden still hadn't warmed up to auntie Cathleen. It took bribing him with cotton candy and cheetos before the little man was himself.


No..Seriously. Caden is still afraid of auntie Cathleen. In this pic, He's not trying to go to auntie Cathleen. Just kidding.


We had breakfast at Chelsea Pier to kickoff our day in NYC and whadaya know, Christine's favorite network films there.


After the girls shopped for dresses for Cath's big day, we needed to get to the East Village to see Toy Tokyo. It was raining but who needs a cab when you can take the New York City subway.


We made it to Toy Tokyo and WESC but I still needed to see the king of all vinyl toy brands, Kid Robot. We trekked through the rain and eventually made it.


Caden was the driest of all of us but as you can see, that didn't mean much. Luckily, auntie Cathleen got him the coolest Clash rock t-shirt from a street vendor.


Thanks Auntie Cathleen for this awesome Clash rock t-shirt. xoxoxoxo, Caden.
One of the many unique items you can buy on the street in NYC. Love it!!! Hopefully, he likes the Clash's music too when he gets a little bigger.


Can you tell I liked him in this outfit?


Trying to complete the rockstar look


Yep another one


Do we match? Here we are before leaving for Jenine and Ryan's wedding in Parissippany, NJ. It finally stopped raining. Good thing too. Their ceremony was outdoors.


Jenine coming down the stairs to her waiting groom. They wrote their own vows which was a very nice touch. I'm usually not a big fan but it felt very apropos.


Here's a shot of the how the outdoor ceremony was set up.


I forgot how they do weddings in New York. There was enough food for a wedding twice as big. Jenine is Filipino but I'd say 10% of the people in attendance were flip. At least they represented with the lechon.


I took this picture just as Jenine was finished taking pictures with her dad after the ceremony. It was the first time she saw that we were there and was grateful that we made the trip.


After all the food and festivities, we were able to catch a picture with the new bride and groom (thanks Christine) before heading home Mazel Tov!!! Oops. I'm just so used to weddings in NY being of the Jewish variety.