Our Family

Sunday was a little more relaxed as we decided to stay up town and around Central Park. We started with breakfast with everyone and then walked to the Museum of Natural History. After lunch from a street vendor we then walked across Central Park and went to the "Met" or the Metropolitan Museum of Art (this is the art museum in the Thomas Crown Affair, although they didn't actually film inside the museum). The museums, in combination with two fully packed days before, had us wore out so we went back to the hotel to rest before the wedding.

Everyone sitting on the steps of the Met (do you see someone familiar?)

Statue of Teddy Roosevelt outside the Natural History Museum.

The morning view outside of the hotel room.

Some pics of the Statue of Liberty

Ellis Island was pretty cool. I bet you could spend a ton of time there

but we were in a bit of a rush after spending a lot of time on Liberty

Island. This is the Registry Room. Up to 5,000 people a day came

through here and would be called up to a podium at the front to answer

questions they answered on the manifest before they came here and other

questions about their plans in the US. Around 12 million people came

through Ellis Island while it was open. It was very interesting to hear

about the process they would have to go through. One example is the

"6 second test" which was the brief look over by a doctor while they were

waiting in line to get into the Registry Room. The doctors

were trained to look for 50-60 diseases that were problems at the time.

It was fun walking around the city. One thing we love about the East

Coast is all the history and character in the cities and buildings.

Here we are going through one of the street markets. Both of us

picked up something from one of the vendors. I got a cool shirt

from a guy who uses photographs taken by his dad back in the

70s/80s in the NY subway. Some of his pics are here

www.theconnartist.net

This place had all sorts of spices and teas.

My cousin got married in New York city over the weekend and Charlotte and I were so lucky to get a weekend together. Char's mom and my grandmother came to our house to watch the kids and we are very thankful. We took the train up to NY from DC. It was our first trip on a train in the US and it was pretty cool. The first day we just walked around seeing some different buildings and sites that are either famous or from movies. We spent some time around Rockefeller Center and later in the afternoon we did the NBC Studios tour. The tour was really cool and we saw Jimmy Fallon's stage and got the history and the tricks they use when filming. We also saw the SNL set and Emma Stone was rehearsing on one of the side stages while we were there.

Once we got there, we dropped the bags at the hotel. If any of you are

familiar with NY, this is connected to the Beacon Theater (which

is the red sign in the background).

We just did some walking and sightseeing on Friday, since

it was a half day for us. Char has been to N Y several times with her

Grandmother and they usually stayed here, the Waldorf Astoria.

Here we go

Corn box

This is the actual maze we did

James took Laney and Evey to Chick-fil-a for lunch
Funny faces