New York

So the kids and I headed to New York for a few days over spring break. We flew Jetblue, the "shut eye", and got in about 6 am. I ended up flying jumpseat, back w/ the flt attendants, so shut eye for me did not happen. When we arrived at Greg and Natashas we visited for a little bit and then I had to get a little bit of sleep. After a short nap the kids and I went into the city on the subway. I was very impressed with how easy it was. Natasha gave us a great map and Corbin was great at navigating. The hardest thing was knowing which direction to head once you got out of the subway. We stopped at Central park and spent quite a while looking for the Balto statue. When the boys were little the movie Balto was one of their favorites. I really wanted to show them the statue. They thought I was crazy, asking people for directions to the statue of Balto. It took us a while but we found it.




The next stop was FAO swartz toy store. Trevor, our lego fan, loved all of the statues made from legos. This was a favorite, if you can't tell it is of the Harry Potter group. I also took a picture of Corbin next to chewbacca but decided not to add it. We did alot of walking just to see the sights and walked right by the Empire State Building without realizing it. The entrance area was under construction and we walked right under it. I am not sure if there was a favorite for any of them but I do know that after getting very little sleep and walking for hours the bus tour we took was my favorite. We even saw filming being done, I wasn't brave enough to go up and ask what was being filmed and I couldn't convince Corbin to do it for me. I kept pointing out places on the tours that I had seen in movies or tv shows. We got off at the Twin Tower site and was a little dissapointed that there wasn't really any sort of memorial any more, at least that I could see. We did peek through the fence to see the construction area.


We ended up in Time square late in the afternoon and it was crazy loud and crowded. There were so many people, tourists to be exact and it wasn't even tourist season yet. I would hate to be there when it was. By about 7pm we were exhausted and headed back to Gregs for some authentic NY pizza. We were starving and it was delicious. We had a great first day and were looking forward to the next. We had to decide between the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. The boys wanted to go to the top of the Empire State Building and Kortney wanted to see the Statue of Liberty. I couldn't afford both so I decided that I didn't want to stand in line for three hours to get to the top of the Empire State Building so the Statue of Liberty won.