Day 15, Friday:
Our last day of vacation. Bittersweet.
The kids were saying they are so happy we made them continue on a go to NYC. They really enjoyed the Statue and the entire experience. But at the same time, they were all homesick.
We slept in a little and wanting to take advantage of the entire day, we took the subway to our first destination. We had already passed this area yesterday on the bus tour and it probably cut our travel time by half. The kids needed to take a subway anyway, they had never done it before.
Subway ride in NYC. Check. Sorry, it's blurry.
We got off in the upper west side in a residential area. This part of town I really enjoyed. It wasn't overcrowded, it just seemed more pleasant and less touristy.
We went to visit the American Museum of Natural History. It was pretty awesome.
We did that for a couple of hours, (we completely skipped the diorama portions) and got back on the bus hungry. We did have a goal of eating pizza in NYC, b/c isn't it famous for pizza? When we got on the bus we asked the tour guide about where to get good pizza. Of course she knew, bc she's local. It happened that her favorite place V&T, was just at the next stop. Perfect! We got off and it did not disappoint. Best pizza ever! We ate every morsel.
We got back on the bus to finish up the tour. We noticed that we were driving right past the tomb of Ulysses S Grant. The kids had to go to the bathroom, so we got off to check it out. We didn't have our passports with us to get stamped so we just stamped paper and put it in our backpack to tape into place later. Interesting stop. My daughter couldn't figure out where the dead guy was, who he was, why he had a house, who lived here, what a tomb was.....
We got back on the bus, and found it was standing room only. No fun. We passed by Central Park and got off, my son had to pee again anyway. We got back on a less crowded bus and took that one to the closest stop to the 911 Memorial, then my son had to pee again.....
We had to walk just a little bit to get to the Memorial. Seeing as how it was a place where a horrific terrorist attack took so many lives, I felt that the smiling pose would be inappropriate. I got a pic of the kids' backs while they pondered the moment.
We had to high tail it back to the ferry to make the last one of the night.
This was a yacht in the harbor that my son loved. I told him I really hoped he would have one of those one day. :)
