After spending several days in the calm wilderness of the Poconos we were ready to experience the not-so-calm wilderness of NYC accompanied by our friends, the Vaiseys. We started off at the Museum of Natural History. Adam has been listening to a song called “I am a Paleontologist” from the new TMBG kids album and has been interested in dinosaur bones. He loved seeing all the bones and I think he was a bit surprised by their size.
We started to get a bit hungry, so we crossed the street to Central Park. Scott and Jeff went foraging for food (i.e. the nearest hotdog stand) while Kelly and I tried to keep four rowdy kids in check.
After we ate our lunch we went back into the museum to check out some of the other exhibits, then it was off to Times Square. Adam LOVED the subway. It was so funny to see his enthusiasm with the backdrop of all the jaded native New Yorkers. Most of them couldn’t help but smile as he looked at them and said, “This is fun. Isn’t this fun?”
By the time we got to Times Square Jane had had all the fun she could take. We headed over to Toys R Us as recommended by a friend and it didn’t disappoint.
There was a large ferris wheel inside the store and Adam enjoyed a ride on that. If we had known, however, how much he would enjoy the escalator, we could have saved the $4.
After Toys R Us we started looking for dinner and found this little gem:
In true NY style, everything cost three times as much as it should ($25 for a sandwich), but it was fun to eat while looking out into Times Square.
After dinner we went back to our cars, changed the kids into jammies and started the 1 1/2 hour drive back to the Poconos.
4 comments:
Sounds SO fun! One of these years we'll make it that direction....I think Andy would like the subway as much as Adam did. :)
Oh Man April! Maxies is where my mom had the "kosher" hot dog! NYC is always a good time. Well done doing it with two little ones.
Maxies on Bop Bop was the best. We had a lot of fun- thanks again for the invite! And if you hit up Mexico next time, we're totally there. Because we like you that much.
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