Coasty Morgans: September 2010

My brother, Aaron lives in New York so we figured it was time to make a trip out to visit. I have never been to New York but have always wanted to go. I am so glad we did because we had a great time. We stayed with my brother in his apartment which was nice because hotel prices were ridiculous. We even had free parking for our car. What a deal.

We started our day by riding the subway.

Uncle Aaron lives about 6 blocks away from the subway

I kept telling the kids not to touch anything because the subways were so nasty and smelly. I had sanitizer wipes in my purse and went through so many in the 48 hours that we were there.

Our first stop was central park. We walked around, climbed the big rocks, bought a hot dog which wasn't very good. Many people have said that you have to buy a hot dog from the vending guys. Seriously, there is one on every corner. But I don't think there hot dogs are all that great.

Family picture...The movie "Enchanted" was filmed in front of this fountain.

The fountain again...in the back ground, the boat house is where the movie, "date night" was filmed. Pretty cool.

We also did the paddle boats in central park. We had to trade off riding in the boats because only 4 people at a time. We also saw little baby turtles in the water.

We also went inside Belvedere castle in central park and this is the view from the top of the castle. Isn't it gorgeous. It was such a beautiful day. No rain only sun and shine. A little breeze as well but helped out because with all the walking the heat would have just ruined it.

Uncle Aaron on the top of Belvedere castle with Alex and Brady

We also went to the museum of national history. It was pretty cool. The kids really enjoyed it.

This part of the museum was really cool because they had different scales...this one was the your weight on Mars but they lots more like your weight on the sun.

This is Alex's...on top

This is Brady's

The dinosaurs were really cool at the museum. I think the kids enjoyed it the best.

So I have researched how to rotate pictures but for some reason my computer will not let me so again, turn your head.

The empire state building

The Ball that drops in New York every year. Doesn't look the same now, does it.

I think I expected more when I saw this. Not sure what I really did expect but I know it didn't live up to what I thought,

I love Macy's...Just though this was neat. I believe it is a 8 story building as well as 2-3 streets long.

Not the best picture but in Time Square there is a Toys R Us. Naturally we went in and let me tell you I was shocked. It was like an amusement park. It is 4 stories tall with a ice cream parlor downstairs with a Ferris wheel in the middle of the story that is as tall as the building. There places throughout the store to get pictures taken with different characters like Dora, spider-man etc..There also a giant transformer in the store and a huge dinosaur moving and such...Oh and you could barely walk around or even take pictures because there were so many people. What a store.

We also wanted to see the "Statue of Liberty." We bought our ferry tickets to go across to the Statue. We were unable to actually go inside on the pedestal or crown portion because I guess for that you have to purchase tickets online 4 weeks in advance. We did not do that but we did get a ferry ride across to get a closer look.

We stood in line for about 1 hour before getting on the boat. The line was long and slow because you have to go through metal detectors before getting on the ferry. Of course, It always beeps when I go through so I had to be search with a hand detector with my arms and legs apart and everyone watching because what else was there to go.