New York

About 2 weeks ago Eric got asked if he would do a presentation in Long Island in about a week.  He called me to see what I thought and then suggested that we all go since he had never been to New York before.  Sounded like a fun quick trip so Gracie and I decided that we would tag along.  I am not used to planning trip so last minute but we did and it ended up being a lot of fun.  We really didn't have the greatest weather while we were there so there are not many pictures. 

We stayed at a hotel in Queens near the subway station, here is Gracie and her elephant hanging out on the bed (she is starting to get interested in her toys which is fun).

Thursday Eric had his presentation so he would be gone all day so Gracie and I decided to go out on our own.  She and I took the train to Manhattan and spent a good part of our day at FAO Schwartz reading stories and looking at toys.  Then we walked around Central Park for a little while and headed back to the hotel.  

The weather people had threatened rain all weekend so we checked the forecast and it sounded like Friday morning would be the best time to be outside so we decided to take the ferry out to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.  We made the mistake of forgetting that weather people are ALWAYS wrong.  We got dumped on.  So it was windy and rainy and we got soaked despite rain jackets and umbrellas.  Still we got to go to the pedestal museum and see the statue.

This one is from the ferry.

This is how Gracie spent most of the trip.

View of Manhattan from the ferry.

We got off the ferry at Ellis Island where we went through the museum and saw a video.  I don't think I ever realized how short a time the island was open.  Very interesting.  It had finally stopped raining so here is a picture of Gracie and I in front of the museum.

She finally woke up.

A view from Ellis Island on the ferry.

The sky was kind of starting to clear up so that we could get a better view.  After that we took the train to Brooklyn and had dinner at a restaurant beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

On Saturday we wanted to go to the USS Intrepid Museum. We finally got there and there was some security issue going on and it was being evacuated and there was a huge line to get in whenever it would open again, but no one knew when that would be so we oped to not wait.  So we took a cab back into town and went to the American Museum of Natural History.  I think the most popular place for people to take pictures there was at the Easter Island statue so we had to get one.

After we were done there we got ice cream and spent quite a while just walking in Central Park exploring.  It was a fun day.  It was a fun quick trip.  Eric and I find it funny that at two months old Gracie has been on more airplanes, cabs, and subway trains than either of us when we went to collage.