The Roosevelt Tram

The Roosevelt Tram takes people across the East River paralleling the Queensboro Bridge to Roosevelt Island.














It's a fun little cheap ride; we were able to use our metro passes.
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Location:59th St Bridge,,United States

FAO Schwartz, here we come!

Subway stop by the Museum of Natural History with really cool tile mosaics-








FAO Schwarz was a little bit of a disappointment (very little) because the boys are a little too old for a lot of what's there. It was still fun, but not all they had hoped. There were some cool Lego creations we took pictures with, though-





Also, I found a new friend I Iove-


After that the boys had fun building at the Lego Store in Rockefeller Plaza.





We also thought it was cool walking along Fifth Avenue and seeing all the stores (I thought Jason might want to look around in Tiffany's, but apparently not).

Here's the 30 Rock guy...and my 3 guys-





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Night at the Museum...in the daytime

Jacob's comment- "Hey, I'm in the museum and I'm not puking!"



Spencer wanted it known that he is also not puking. :)


Some pictures from the museum-





The Willamette meteorite-














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Location:Central Park West,,United States

The Museum of Natural History, Pt 2

We're going to use our vouchers from "museum pukefest" for the Museum of Natural History this morning. Then we'll have lunch at our place and head out to FAO Schwartz and Rockefeller Center.
Oh, also, I thought this was funny. Yesterday, remember how we walked forever looking for a cab...this was the view we had when we came up from the subway by our place in Manhattan-


Manhattan is definitely where you want to be if you're looking for a cab...apparently Brooklyn, not so much!
Anyway, off to our day of NYCing...
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Location:W 71st St,,United States

Stomp!

The show was GREAT! We loved the dancing, the drumming, the acting...all of it! It was cool to see it in its U.S. debut theater- it's been playing there continuously since 1994.

When we took the subway home at 11:00ish, this was at one of our transfers. The video isn't good, but you can get a view of the subway in action and if you REALLY listen and look, there's a random group down the way with horns and a mic playing music. I was trying to make sure the kids were ready to get on the train though, so the video suffered. Oh well, better the video than the kids!

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The Best-Laid Plans

So, our plan had been to subway to the South Ferry, then a short walk to the Ikea Ferry, then ferry to Ikea for lunch & a brief browse. After that we were going to take a cab to the Brooklyn Gardens, wander the gardens, subway to the Brooklyn Bridge to walk across, and finish the outing with a subway ride home... that was the plan.
The subway ride was good and we walked the short walk to the ferry and found where we needed to be easily. However, we got to the pier about 10:30 and the sign said the first ferry wasn't scheduled until 2:00... so, we shuffled. We walked up to Wall Street for some lunch and to catch the subway to the gardens.





The gardens were beautiful and the boys and I took a TON of pictures of flowers. Only going to put a couple here now and will link an album in here later. For now, though...











After the Brooklyn Gardens, we walked about a mile looking for a taxi.


We finally found one and got a ride to Ikea, where Jacob and I sprinted through the store ooh-ing and ahh-ing. Having already walked miles, we decided not to walk the Brooklyn Bridge and just caught the ferry for the ride back to Manhattan.








The views (and temperature!) on the ferry were awesome!


The other views were nice too...








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Location:Brooklyn, NY

The Ikea Ferry & Brooklyn Gardens

Today we're going to get our first views of the Statue of Liberty. The ferry ride is supposed to pass in front of her on the way across to Ikea (lunch for cheap!). Every trip starts with the subway (which is super easy & fast!).





We're on the subway now and our train just slammed on the brakes and honked...
makes me wonder what gets in your way down here?
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