On Saturday, my husband and our two sons and I decided to take a quick daytrip to NYC. We could have subtitled it the Madagascar fieldtrip. My younger son loves that movie. First, we wet to the MOMA and saw the Pixar exhibit, which was really neat with lots of sketches, busts, and variations of characters that made up the different Pixar movies, like The Incredibles, Monsters Inc., Toy Story, etc. Then we went to the Toys R Us in Times Square and rode the giant indoor Ferris Wheel. We rode in the M and M car, which was great since it’s my oldest son’s favorite candy. Then we went to Bubba Gump’s for lunch, where our Host’s name was also Kyle and made a huge deal out of the fact they had the same name and had Kyle totally cracking up. We had a good late lunch/early dinner there, walked to Grand Central Station and then took a subway ride back to the car. The boys were exhausted, but thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
For some reason it took us about an hour and a half to go 5 blocks to get to the tunnel to get to New Jersey. That was so frustrating. I can’t imagine dealing with that amount of traffic on a regular basis. But it was a great trip. My older son wants to move there. He needs to be consantly engaged in something and he was right at home in New York City. My older son just loves the fact that you can get soft pretzels (his favorite food) on just about every street corner.