NYC!

We finally made it to NYC for a short day trip. Took the train from Westfield to Newark, switched to another train to end up at Penn Station. I was very happy Jim was along with us since he does the trip every day. I probably could have figured it out on my own, but not with two kiddos in tow. We went to the Museum of Natural History. We were going to try to go see Santa at Macy's (our neighbor told us that a stop-over at "Santaland" was well worth the trip), but we ended up sticking to just the one destination. Good decision on our part, since the museum is so big there was no way to make it through it all in one day as it was, and we hated having to leave poor Lucy in the kennel for so long.

Note: the pictures are from the camera phone, since we realized we'd forgotten the good camera at home about 5 minutes before the train was to arrive. So sorry about the quality.



Grace enjoys the train ride into the city.


What you are greeted with upon entering the museum.


Tons of really cool dioramas to see (Great Wall of China here) that Jim, Grace and I enjoyed. Alex - not so much.


Hey, dum-dum. You got gum-gum? The minute Alex saw this on a wall display showing various collections he needed to traverse the entire museum to get to it, not looking at a thing along the way. (BTW, quote is from "Night at the Museum" if you haven't seen it.)


Of course Alex wanted a picture in front of the triceratops. And picked out a stuffed one as a souvenier, which luckily was green.


I think the kids had the most fun in the outer space area, probably because it was the most interactive part of the museum. You can see what you weigh on a lot of other planets, push buttons to make displays light up, look through little telescopes to see various views of things, all sorts of things kids like to do. And there was so much more we could have seen there, but the little ones still have short attention spans.

I think we need to watch Night at the Museum again tomorrow night.