Going Home

It's Monday morning, time to GO HOME. But before we hit the subways to get to our bus to take us to the airport to catch our plane (yes, it would be a long trip home) we had to leave our mark on the world. We were off to ABC.

I just wanted to see where they film Good Morning America. . .

This is where they tape each morning, outside.
 

This is Sam Champion and the crew on t.v, with us in the shot! We were actually ON Good Morning America! Best part, Joshy saw us at home waving to him on t.v.
 

La Guardia airport has some not so nice parts. This is one of the nice parts though. Free iPads for everyone to use! Looks like our journey home would be more pleasant than we thought.

We made it! Look who we found waiting for us at the airport. They loved the prizes we brought them, but I think they might have loved seeing us more, maybe. ;)
 

Our Last Full Day in NYC

It was a beautiful morning in upper Manhattan.  We were lovin' this view down Park Ave. on our way to the next museum.

We saved the best for last;
the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 

We had several hours to spend here, but that could never be enough time to see everything. Time to study the map, pick and choose, and make a plan!
 

We ended up having a great time enjoying as many little details as we could!
 

We saw Rembrandt,
 

Caravagggio,
 

Degas,
 

Monet,
 

Serat,
 

Van gogh,
 

Pollack.
 

This is a painting Ryan's mom hung in there home and he has looked at a thousand times. Nice to see the original!
 

There was so much fun stuff to see!
 

Obligatory pregnancy shot. ;)
 

"Cat". Hmm, interesting.

I seriously walked by this three times before I realized it was an ear.
 

Close up of the ear, you can see how I was confused.
Sometimes we just need to step back in life and get some perspective.
 

Okay, maybe it's time to go, we are getting silly!
 

Back to the subway. Don't let this picture fool you. There are rats down there, I promise!
 

When we came up the steps out of the subway that evening, this is what we saw.
The Manhattan Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

 It's nice to feel at home, when you are so far from home.

 

We covered a lot of area on our last day. I'm pretty sure we clocked like 10 miles by foot. The end of the day found us making our way to the World Trade Center Site.

 

While  finding our way there we stopped on a bench to rest and have a little snack. It was a lovely view looking west over the river.

 

We found the Freedom Tower. Wow. We were able to watch a little video about the events of September 11th as well. We hadn't originally planned on coming down to Lower Manhattan and and stopping here. I'm so glad we did.  

 

While making our way back to Times Square we found another cup cake shop. Crumbs. It was closed by the time we got there. Oh well.

We spent our last night in the heart of Times Square at the Double Tree hotel. Yes, we could see the jumbo-trans out our hotel window. 

 It was almost midnight by the time we finished dinner at the Olive Garden in Times Square and worked our way across the street to our hotel. (It's literally right out the window behind Ryan in this picture). It sure didn't look like things were winding down at Olive Garden though, or Times Square, for hours to come

Our 3rd Day in the City

After a lovely,warm breakfast at the hotel we made our way to the very convenient bus stop across the street, ready for another round of adventure in the city.

First stop: The Natural History Museum planetarium.
 

We enjoyed playing in the gift shop. ;)
 

Time to explore the rest of this massive museum!
 

Look what we found! "Me want gum-gum, dumb-dumb!" Name that movie.
 

There were dinosaurs with sharp teeth,
 

and very long tails.
 

I was holding out to see this massive whale.
 

Time for a picnic in the park across the street; Central Park that is.
 

By bus and foot we worked our way across to the East side of town for our next museum. This was a really nice part of town.
 

We found the Guggenheim!
 

You know, the Guggenheim. The museum in all the movies with the spiral gallery.
 

Too bad the spiral gallery was closed to prepare for a new Picasso exhibit. It was a bit disappointing to say the least. The gift shop was kind of fun though! We found a gift for baby boy #4. Can you guess what we plan on naming him?

I had to have my picture taken with this massive monkey. Those are some BIG socks! The price of this baby, $100.00. We left him on the shelf.
 

Dinner back in Rockefeller Center at Bill's before heading back to the hotel.
 

Waiting for the subway after an amazing, but tiring day.