Almost a year ago we received an invitation for the wedding of Glenn & Gina. They both live in New York and that is also the location for the wedding. This made us decide to visit New York City in 2012.

In december we started booking our flights and we ended up booking with Lufthansa. We leave from Nürnberg Airport and fly to Dusseldorf for a direct flight to Newark. On the way back at home 9 days later we depart from John F. Kennedy Airport and fly to Munich. In Munich we fly back to Nuremberg.

The first half of our trip we wanted to stay as close to Time Square is possible. And due to the prices of the rooms we decided to go for a Priceline hotel. After 3 bids we ended with booking the Crown Plaza Time Square hotel for only 150$ a night.

Since we are also invited for the rehearsal dinner which takes place at Staten Island we decided to book 1 hotel night there. We selected the Indigo and got a nice rate from 89$ a night.

And for the last 3 nights of our trip we stay in the Holiday Inn Hasbrouck Heights which is also near the party location from the wedding.

These last days we will also have a rental car to visit some places in New Jersey. Danielle wants to visit the Woodbury Common Premium Outlets. This is a huge outlet center with 220 stores.

All the others we’d like to visit are not yet planned. We will figure out what to plan the upcoming weeks or see what we’d like to do when we are in the big apple!

Every once in a while I feel like doing something in the kitchen. And no it’s not regular cooking I like to bake things. Remember the Appleballs back in 2009? If not here is the link: Apfelbollen... This time I went for an Dutch Apple Pie:

Can’t wait till later tonight since it needs to cool down for an hour! 🙁