This was our big day in New York, and the weather was beautiful, after raining the day before the temperature was warm but not hot, and there was a breeze to keep the humidity at bay. On this day we had decided to ride the train into the city instead of driving the vans, the kids could not have been more excited, they had never been on a train before, and loved to ride. The hard part was keeping them in thier chairs. We did a ton of walking this day, and were very worn out by the time that we made it back to the train. We were able to see Time Square, the largest Toys R Us, (the kids personal favorite), battery park, and the financial center of the city.
This is Aby and Kenzie on the train, you can see how excited they were to see the buildings and grass go by so quickly. It was also really nice on the train because it was pretty close to empty, and so the ticket taker took time to talk to the kids and show them how they punched the tickets.
This is Grandma and Brooklyn, she was definately not as into the train as the other kids, but she did pretty good. Brooklyn rode in a stroller the entire day, and was very grateful whenever we stopped and she could get out to play.
After riding the train we go off at Central station. After getting lost using the elevators, we all finally managed to meet in the main terminal. This terminal is big, and there were a lot of people. It was interesting to me that on the way home at the end of the day there was a wedding party (bride in dress and bridesmaids in dresses also) that was doing pictures in the station. I can only hope that the wedding wasn't performed there also. This is the whole gang, at this time Andrew and Michelle had joined us, and we made a total of 19 people.
In Toys "R" Us the kids thought they had died and gone to heaven. They had a barbie castle, a candy land area, a giant dinosaur that really growled and moved(this scared Kenzie and we couldn't stay by it very long without her starting to cry.) They also had a lego section, train station area, and ferris wheel. the building was three stories high, and had an elevator. I don't think that my kids will ever look at another toy store the same way. Aby and Kenzie liked the trains the best because they could play with them.
Here Ryan and the girls are riding the ferris wheel. They had a great time and would do it again in a heart beat.
After eating lunch we found a small park that the kids could play in. there were three sections one of them having water, I was really surprised that me kids didn't play in the water, but they had a great time on the slides, and running around. Here you can see Mckenzie master her latest trick, going down the slide head first.
Ohhh yes the bull, we couldn't get to the front to take a picture, so we took pictures at the backside. The kids just thought that it was funny to touch the big bull.
This was taken at a water fountain by another small park at the end of the day. While some of the adults went and climbed the brooklyn bridge the sane and tired people went down the street to this fountain and park. The little girls had a great time playing in the water, and running around.
This is another part of the park, the girls started to chase newspapers that had been left and then tear them up and throw them in the garbage. They were really cute running around together.
Ryan was tired and so he decided to play games on his cell phone and keep Brooklyn company. Brooklyn was just happy to roll on the ground and be out of the stroller. She was great about riding most of the time, but was always very happy to get out and play when she could.
This is Aby and Kenzie on the train, you can see how excited they were to see the buildings and grass go by so quickly. It was also really nice on the train because it was pretty close to empty, and so the ticket taker took time to talk to the kids and show them how they punched the tickets.
This is Grandma and Brooklyn, she was definately not as into the train as the other kids, but she did pretty good. Brooklyn rode in a stroller the entire day, and was very grateful whenever we stopped and she could get out to play.
After riding the train we go off at Central station. After getting lost using the elevators, we all finally managed to meet in the main terminal. This terminal is big, and there were a lot of people. It was interesting to me that on the way home at the end of the day there was a wedding party (bride in dress and bridesmaids in dresses also) that was doing pictures in the station. I can only hope that the wedding wasn't performed there also. This is the whole gang, at this time Andrew and Michelle had joined us, and we made a total of 19 people.
In Toys "R" Us the kids thought they had died and gone to heaven. They had a barbie castle, a candy land area, a giant dinosaur that really growled and moved(this scared Kenzie and we couldn't stay by it very long without her starting to cry.) They also had a lego section, train station area, and ferris wheel. the building was three stories high, and had an elevator. I don't think that my kids will ever look at another toy store the same way. Aby and Kenzie liked the trains the best because they could play with them.
Here Ryan and the girls are riding the ferris wheel. They had a great time and would do it again in a heart beat.
After eating lunch we found a small park that the kids could play in. there were three sections one of them having water, I was really surprised that me kids didn't play in the water, but they had a great time on the slides, and running around. Here you can see Mckenzie master her latest trick, going down the slide head first. 
Ohhh yes the bull, we couldn't get to the front to take a picture, so we took pictures at the backside. The kids just thought that it was funny to touch the big bull. 
This was taken at a water fountain by another small park at the end of the day. While some of the adults went and climbed the brooklyn bridge the sane and tired people went down the street to this fountain and park. The little girls had a great time playing in the water, and running around.
This is another part of the park, the girls started to chase newspapers that had been left and then tear them up and throw them in the garbage. They were really cute running around together. 
Ryan was tired and so he decided to play games on his cell phone and keep Brooklyn company. Brooklyn was just happy to roll on the ground and be out of the stroller. She was great about riding most of the time, but was always very happy to get out and play when she could.
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