I’ve been blessed to be able to take trips by myself since Savannah was born thanks to my wonderful in-laws helping out with child-care.   I truly believe that getting some “me time” is refreshing and only helps better my relationship with Savannah because it’s so exciting to come back home to her.   The first 2 years after she was born traveling by myself went to halt since I needed to be with her to nurse or simply because the money wasn’t in the budget, but for some reason since this past August  I have managed a girls weekend beach trip, a long weekend trip to Indiana to see Bre, and now a new opportunity has arisen to visit Victoria up north for her birthday! This will be the longest trip away yet, nearly a week. Whoa.

This southern girl is going to experience the big cities like Philadelphia and maybe even New York City!

I’m so excited because I get to see her “territory”, our visits so far have always been at my house. It’ll be neat to see places and meet people I always hear about :-) And, it’ll be neat to see places I’ve always seen on TV or movies.  Or go snow tubing (we don’t have much snow down here, yall). Or go to museums because we’re nerds like that.  Or, just talk for hours like we always do!

Also? Southwest Air has some amazing deals.  Truly, truly a blessing to find their deal which ended up saving me about $130 in air fare and baggage fees (seriously, charging for bags on top of your ticket price is ridiculous!).

So, for you readers who are familiar with Philly or NYC,  we need your help: What is there fun to fun to see and do that’s cheap?  Any tips on taking the train from Philly to NYC? Or how to navigate NYC? Or, um, any tips what-so-ever you have, like how not to get mugged?

(Who wants to bet I’ll really be missing Savannah and Mark by the time the week is over despite how much fun I’ll have had? Me.)