I'll let you guess where we went first...
Even the Subway stop lets you know you're on the right track
A dear President
We didn't really think through the fact that we were going on Saturday morning, so it was packed with kids. But it added to the fun of it all!
We saw all sorts of things
Elephants
Other dead animals
Huge minerals
Indian canoes
Ancient trees
Probably the whale that swallowed Jonah
Human skulls
Giant meteorites
And of course.....
DINOSAURS
It doesn't bode well that we already look pretty exhausted
Then we decided to cross through Central Park to get to 5th Avenue. It's not exactly as clear as you'd think just going West to East, and once we were in the middle we thought we'd never find our way out. But the views from inside are so classic New York
Eventually we did find our way out, and surprisingly right where we wanted to be!
The beautiful Metropolitan Museum of Art
I like to pretend that I'm in Gossip Girl....you know, just an average day eating yogurt on the steps of the Met. =)
Upper East Side
Then it was down the street to the amazing Guggenheim
Then it was downtown a little ways to see some historical New York landmarks
Bergdorf...I wish.
F.A.O. Schwartz of course!
The candy shop from every child's dream. That soldier is made completely out of jelly beans.
Barbie fooseball!!! Siara and I would have gone crazy for this.
And....the Big Piano! Turns out that nowadays you don't just get to jump on it like you're Tom Hanks, you have to pay money and book a time. But seeing it was just as cool.
Just down the street, home at last.
So many designer shops, so little time. Or money. Whichever. You do just feel a little classier being on this street though!
Per our dear friend Jess, Shake Shack was an absolute must while we were in NYC. So we ventured out for some dinner.
The only places to sit are outside, so we almost froze to death waiting for our food.
But it was, honestly and truly with no exaggeration, the BEST hamburger and fries we have ever eaten. And we've tried a lot of burger places all over the country/world. This rivals my original Burgerville favorite. The Gale family may kill me for such blasphemy, but YUM.
Our last stop of the day was a ride to the top of the Empire State Building. We figured we did Top of the Rock during the day, so we should get the view from the Empire State at night.
Umm...that may have been a mistake. The wind was blowing so hard we could hardly take a picture without the camera blowing away!
But it was worth it, because the views are incredible.
Okay, Empire State building was ALMOST our last stop. We had to go through Grand Central anyway, so we made another little pit stop at Magnolia Bakery. I'm in heaven.
The Grand Central cupcake
A delicious end to a very perfect day.
2 comments:
For the Shake Shack recommendation, you can just next your second born child after me :)
xo
um shake shack literally is the best!! 4th of July they had apple pie shake gosh it was yum!! also you look adorable atop the empire state!
Post a Comment