Wednesday morning we woke up and headed into the city on a much more crowded bus. We all had to sit separately. The guy right behind Calissa had to go to the bathroom and created quite the stir on the bus that morning! Once into the city, we headed to Central Park.
We rented some bikes and headed on our way exploring.
It was a gorgeous day!
A beautiful view of the lake in Central Park.
The rode most of the way around the 6 1/2 mile loop before stopping at the Museum of Natural History.
But first, we needed a stop at this food cart, Wafels and Dinges. Oh my goodness ... so very yummy!
After finally finding a place to chain up our bikes (harder than you'd think with only one lock),
we headed into the museum.
Teddy Roosevelt
The kids were a little disappointed with Rexy ... they thought he should have been bigger.
It's a beautiful building!
After paying and seeing a film about the universe, we started exploring the maze of a museum! This is the museum in the "Night of the Museum" movie, but it didn't look much like the movie.
Here is Calissa with a life-size blue whale!
We found something from the movie!
Travis with a meteorite!
It truly was a maze and we didn't even see all of it!
Everywhere in New York has these rotating doors!
After leaving the museum and finishing our ride in Central Park, we returned our bikes and took off on foot. We walked to St. Patricks Cathedral.
It was so beautiful and so big!
The stained glass windows were absolutely gorgeous!
Here is the Rockefeller Building. So tall!
Grand Central Station
Lots of people in Grand Central Station. We happened to be there around 5:00 at night, but it's such a cool building!
After a dinner of pizza we visited the New York Public Library.
It's huge! Calissa wanted to know where all the book were! We found out it was a research library, so they have no fiction books there!
After stopping for an ice cream, we made it to our show "The Play That Goes Wrong."
Even the playbill was a bit of a mess. It was a hysterical play that had us laughing so hard we were crying! The write up said ... "If you like a ramshackle set, a leading lady with a concussion, and a corpse that can't play dead, then this is the play for you."
After the play was over we headed back over to the Rockefeller Building to go to the "Top of the Rock." Unfortunately, because of the great weather the line was out the door and they had no more tickets available for that night. It was supposed to rain on Thursday, but was supposed to stop around 7:00 pm. We decided to book our tickets for the next night around 10:15 pm and hope for the best!
After walking 11 miles today (and riding over 7 miles on bikes) we headed back to the hotel.
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