New York City! We took a much needed family day and headed into the city for some fun in the kinda-sorta sun. We dropped Dodo off at the doggy hotel at 9:30 and headed straight to Roosevelt Island just across the river from Manhattan. We parked the car there (less than half the price of a city garage), hopped the shuttle bus to the "Flying Train Car" and away we went!
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| We could spend a half day exploring here, too! Who knew? |
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| 25 cents for adults, kids free. My kind of city bus! |
The tram was $2.75 for adults (kids free) and took about 4 minutes to fly up into the air and across the river. It was awesome (and slightly frightening to this mama so I just clicked a bunch of pictures and tried not to look down!) and the kids loved it.
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| Look, Mom, a river! a boat! a bridge! a building! a pigeon! etc. |
The tram let us off about 6 blocks from the southeast corner of Central park. Knowing that public bathrooms are a scarcity in the city, we made a pit stop here for a pee!
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| Thanks for the potty break, Bloomingdales! |
The sun kept peeking in and out of the clouds, so it was a bit chilly for our picnic and wander through the park, but we toughed it out!
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| Ben would take a bite of his bagel, chew, count the bite marks, repeat. Took forever to finish it! |
As "Balto" is one of our oldie but goodie animated film favorites, the kids were excited to find the Balto statue in Central Park!
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| I'll be a Musher! |
The walk from the southeast corner of the park to the National History Museum is technically about 35 city blocks. The kids did an AMAZING job of walking, with a few of these rides thrown in.
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| Super daddy to the rescue. |
As it is Spring Break, the museum was busy busy busy! But luckily our pals gave us their museum pass and we did not have to wait in long lines to purchase tickets. *Grateful!*
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| We made it! |
We hit the underwater exhibit first to check out the GIANT whale and all the ocean creatures. It was like the zoo, but closer up views of the taxidermy animals. The exhibits are very well done. Ben would look into a window for 8 seconds, then tug on my arm pulling me to the next one, "Come on! Let's see the next one!" From there we headed to the 4th floor to see the dinosaurs. We weren't sure how much "time" we had before exhaustion hit so we wanted to see what we considered the cool stuff first! Good thing, we pretty much lost Ben near the end of the dinosaurs, "I wanna go home. Let's get out of here and go home..."
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| Silliness = tiredness. |
We decided to grab a cab back to the tram station as we had some tired kids. We thought Ben would be happy to ride in yet another kind of public transportation. He was NOT! When the door of the taxi opened he turned into a hysterical mess. I literally dragged him across the back of the cab and squeezed him tight to quiet him down. "I don't wanna ride in a taxi! I wanna walk! I wanna go back to the museum!" It was a nightmare. He must have been an abused cab driver in a previous life...
Or maybe he was just tired? His beloved "Flying Train Car" return ride to Roosevelt Island was just as bad - a crying tantrummy mess. We were "that" family on the tram. We then boarded the red shuttle bus - more of the same. Then, *snap* that switch in his brain went back on and he was our delightful little happy man once again. I just don't get it...
All in all, it was a great day. Now that the kids are bigger I can see more trips to explore the city in our future. Hooray!!!
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