When I heard that Miley Cyrus was playing on the Today show- I thought Carley would love that. I soo need a break I wanna take her. I got online and started researching how the whole today show concert series works. With not much luck I decided that in order to see Miley up close we would need to be at Rockefeller Plaza by 4am. Doable, crazy, but for sure doable. I checked flights and red eye didn't get in until 520 am so if we did that we probably wouldn't be able to see Miley. I also was scheduled to work both Friday and Saturday. I would need help. I couldn't find anyone to cover my shifts-so I went into pleading mode. I had an angel (thanks Amber) take my Saturday shift. Only 6 hours needed to be covered and we could have a great trip to NY. I called the Today show to see if perchance if we did end up flying on Thursday night what would be the chances of us getting anywhere close to the stage. Long story short girl at Today show was no help. Thursday came and no one could take my shift. I was starting to feel bummed. Sometimes if my work is slow they will offer time off. So I sat by the computer praying all day to have time off. finally at 5:15 pm they offered time off and I got it. So I started frantically getting ready. Order car service, get hotel, pack and be at airport by 10pm. easy right? Not really- I could find a hotel under $350 a night in the Manhattan area, so I decided that it was gonna be a short trip. get into NY at 520am leave NY same day at 830pm. why not right? Well Carley is such a good sport and was really excited, I was too!! Game on! Flight was as good as can be expected-love the even more leg room especially when you are trying to sleep! Carley was way too excited to sleep. Finally I told her to close her eyes and she laid on my shoulder. About half and hour left of the flight and multiple times of stopping her from snuggling into the nice man sitting next to her she woke up. The flight finally landed-Carley walked off the jet way and said, "Hello New York" ala Hannah Montana style. We rushed to the baggage and found the car service waiting outside. We were on the road and out of JFK within 15 mins of landing. It was raining outside and the Car service guys said it would stop soon. (Yeah right big freaking liar!) we pulled up to 47th and 5 Ave. there were hoards of girls ages 5-25 with their parents in tow! Tons of poster-crap I forgot our poster-o well. If Miley doesn't know we heart her by now she never will. We could barley see the stage. We were standing next to a man and his daughter. He thought we could get closer-so we finagled our way up closer. Not as close as we wanted, but close enough to make me happy! It started raining harder (read dramatic pouring rain). We couldn't leave our spot to get an umbrella or we would lose our closer spot. We had fun. Natalie Morales even came over and talked/laughed at Carley. Carley got to shake her hand. Miley put on a good 1/2 hour concert. All in all we had a great morning. Wet, freezing, and super tired fun. Stay tuned for the rest of the New York story!
We were soaked but we were having so much fun!
Moving closer to the stage!
Carley and Natalie Morales
Singing with the foam mic they gave her
