Our first morning to wake up on the East coast...and we woke up to extremely foggy, dreary skies. It was supposed to be the only day like it, so we decided to change up our plans a bit and spend the day indoors at the Museum of Natural History. The kids could not wait! Night at the Museum is one of their favorite movies, and they were excited to see it all actually first hand. Cathy, Wes' sister and his mom, drove us all into the city and dropped us off. Trip, a freshman in high school, decided to skip school and be our guide. Surely his teachers would give him credit for that!! After all, it's not often that you have relatives from Texas come to town. We pulled up to see this massive building and laughed as we saw alllllll the school buses lined up around the block. Our kids were going to fit right in with all the field trips going on!
We were all blown away by what greeted us as we walked in...INCREDIBLE!!!
You can only imagine how many pictures we took...so hard to pick a few to share! If nothing else, you will see how you MUST take a trip there and see it all for yourself.
The entire museum is 4 floors, and you could probably spend a whole day per each floor, but we didn't have that luxury, nor would our children allow us to spend TOO much time in what spot. But it seemed every display, they would holler out, "take a picture of that" "take a picture of this" wanting to capture it all to take it home. The fourth floor was closed as we found out they were shooting the tv series "Heroes" upstairs, so we hated to miss out on seeing the dinosaurs up close, but thought that was pretty cool!
We made our way to the children's area, where the kids were able to take on the role of scientists & explorers and go crazy with the hands on activities that were all around.
A dinosaur dig...checkin' the bones...Yep, I think Sam thought this dinosaur needed a kiss.
Jack workin' away...his teacher would be so proud of him...and on Spring Break too!!
Sam thinks he found something hidden in the tree...
Annie reviewing her notes...
We found Dexter!!! So fun to run into him!!!
But the highlight of the day was getting to see and take a picture with the "gum gum/dumb dumb statue" from the movie...they could not wait to find him and we finally did on the 3rd floor! Their only disappointment...he didn't talk!
AMAZING!
There was a special butterfly exhibit going on, and the room was filled with hundreds and hundreds of butterflies. Man, was it warm in there! We were ready to hit the road after a long day and a lot of walkin'!
LOVED THIS!!
Then it was time to hit our first of many trips on the subway...thank goodness we had Trip with us, because it is sooooo confusing!!
Hoping we're on the right track...
Whew! Back to our vacation home sweet home!
Check back for Day 3---Central Park and the shots of it are breathtaking!!
7 comments:
so fun-- wish we could have been right there with you all! cant wait to see more pics. xoxoxo
AWESOME! Anxious for Central Park pictures!
Too cool! Great highlights.
I would have never guessed that Cathy and Walt would have a lawn in NY--my mind only visualizes big city buildings and apartments. Neat!
Trip has gotten so big.
Love how you're keeping us on the edge of our seats...waiting for the next day of your amazing trip!!
AMAZING... looks like an understatement!
i can imagine all the "oooooo ing & ahhhhh ing"
that place looks amazing!
to take it all in... glad you took lots of pics to remind you of the fun!
WOW!!! The kids look like they had such a wonderful time!! It's so great that they can have fun AND learn new things!!! Mommy looks like she had fun too!!!
so much to do and see in one day! (what'd ya eat-what'd ya eat?!?!)
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