Although we only spent 1 1/2 days in New York City, we packed 2 1/3 days worth of goodness into the trip. To kick off the festivities, we were greeted at the hotel by our long-lost friends the Giasis who arrived just in time to help us avoid paying a bellman to lug our 3 tons of luggage to the hotel room.
After Lily, Lucy and Bill had a chance to meet Camryn and reacquaint themselves with Laney, we headed off to Central Park for an afternoon of adventure and horse poop. (Seriously. There were horses everywhere. You couldn’t throw a pretzel without hitting a horse. It was like they hadn’t sprayed for horses in years. You get the picture.)
First stop was the Central Park Zoo where the only thing more plentiful than horse poop was the delightful pleading of “… can we see more animals?” every time we stopped to see a new animal. We saw everything from the more exotic seals, polar bears, snow leopards and monkeys to the native squirrels, pigeons and sewer rats.
But nothing seemed to excite the kids more than the penguins. You should have seen Delaney’s joy as she pressed her face against the glass and stole her first look at an animal she had only read about in books. As a majestic emperor penguin came gliding by gracefully, seemingly turning at just the right time so as to wave to use, Delaney pointed into the tank, looked up at me with her big blue eyes filled with wonderment and exclaimed with pride, “PENGUIN POOP!”
That’s my girl!
After Kristin joined us, we continued to the kid’s zoo where the girls could wreck havoc on smaller, more unprotected animals and climb on more dangerous objects before we all trekked for what seemed like 20 minutes across town to eat at the famous Serendipity. Unfortunately the wait was over an hour and they didn’t allow strollers, so we had Italian food on the corner.
At the end of the day, we were all exhausted and ready to collapse… right after we went to Crumbs for cupcakes to replenish all of the calories we had walked off that day.
It was a great time for everyone and the perfect introduction to NYC for the girls. Next stop… Yankee Stadium!



















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