Day 4 New York City

It took us about 4 hours to get from Syracuse to New York City. It was a pretty easy drive and the girls were awesome in the car!!! They were either sleeping or just hanging out being good. They were even holding hands at one point...so cute!!

This is when we first saw the city!! There are so many trees along the highway that you can't see anything until you are right on it!

Giants stadium

It got a little hairy once we actually got into the city though! But my wonderful hubby did a great job driving and not getting us in an accident. It was amazing how many cars honked! It was like a constant thing. If you didn't move the second the light turned green, you had a few cars honking at you already. Travis said he wanted to honk at someone at least once while we were there and he got his chance. We were behind this guy and he was trying to turn right at a street where it said no right turns. The light turned green and we are just sitting behind him and Travis honked at him and it got him on his way;) I guess it works and it's so common that you don't get evil looks like you would at home;) We ended up having to circle around again because we went down the wrong street (or so we thought) and came down the right street only to not be able to see the parking garage our hotel told us to go to. I jumped out and ran down the street to ask where to park so we didn't have to circle around again. I asked the guy where to park and he said to just pull up in front like we could have in the beginning!! O-well!! We got all checked in and started off for Central Park. It wasn't very far from the hotel. A couple blocks down, we heard loud music and these helicopters were circling overhead. We looked down the street and I guess Paul McCartney was giving a concert for the David Letterman show. You could see the cameras moving around and the street was all blocked off. And then as we walked, we passed right by Carnegie Hall!!

We got to Central Park and they had these carriages all lined up and tons of bike riders trying to get you to take a ride with them. It was pretty expensive though and we would have had to take two!

We saw Chip and Dale as soon as we got to the park. So stinking cool. Especially for a desert rat like me. You just don't see that!! They would eat right from this ladies hand.

We found a hot dog stand for dinner (not so great) and a playground right off the bat so the girls could get some of their energy out. Unfortunately, it didn't work for Jordyn....she was a screaming banshee the rest of the night!!! It was kind of a different experience at this park. There were nannies with some of the kids instead of their parents.

We had a hard time finding things. I wanted to take them to a carousel and never found it and wanted to see the fountain and didn't find that until after dark and we were leaving and walked into it by accident. It's just so crazy big that we couldn't get our bearings. O-well. This is one of the lakes there.

There were a ton of turtles sticking their heads out. All those spots in the pic are turtles.

Cool looking bird

Another squirrel at the bottom of the tree behind Kenna.

This is the best family pic we could get. Jordyn just wanted to get down and go!!!

Jordyn chasing after a squirrel.

This is the view of the bigger lake once we finally got there. Central Park is HUGE!!!

Just a view of some buildings from the park.

The stinker Jordyn going wherever she wanted to go.

We thought these buildings looked like candles;)

So, as we were exhausted and just trying to find our way out, we ran into the fountain.

It took us awhile and me asking for directions to finally get out of Central Park;) We were pretty tired and ready to relax in the hotel room. We got some milk at this little store on the way back (that we found only because I asked someone;) and it was so expensive just for a small jug. I have no idea how New Yorkers live. I never saw a grocery store. Just these little shops on the corners. I guess they just get a few things every few days or locals know of better places to go;)

This is the view from our hotel room. I wasn't sure if we would have a view since they don't have to do that for employee rates but it was fun looking out of our windows. The girls loved just looking out at the chaos down below. It was also neat to see how they parked the cars. We should have taken a pic. They had them stacked so tight on the roof and they even had these things to park cars on top of each other. Pretty crazy!! And this is the city that truly never sleeps. We would hear horns honking into the night;)