Waking Up in New York City

Well my Sleeping Beauty kept true to her name as she drifted off to sleep on the plane in the middle of our 4 hour plane flight to New York yesterday. Would have made an even better story if she had been sewing her ribbons on her pointe shoes and poked herself with the needle! We left at two in the morning and our faithful "Little Blue" got us to Seattle without incident just before 5. Plane ride went smooth , with the exception of poor and expensive food choices and being locked out of the food places once we got our luggage. Note to self for the plane ride home - pack snacks! So cool to see the whole city from the plane and gave a whole new meaning to watching the The Apprentice. Must figure out how to do a "fast forward" video of one of our days :) The shuttle from the airport gave us quite the tour of the city already. We arrived at 7:30 at an amazing apartment in downtown Manhatten for our first night. I will not attempt to outdo Katy's description of the apartment… you will have to visit her blog - all I can say is that I have heard her describe an apartment like this in her dreams before! It afforded a dance in the high ceiling studio style living room to the song "New York , New York!" We have now relocated to where we will be for the 5 weeks and it is cozy but comfortable. It was only about a 10 minute walk from the 1st apartment - wow God is good! About to go back to get our last luggage and start preparing for tomorrow's first day at ABT! (American Ballet Theater)