New York Day 4

This morning the boys and I woke up for another adventurous day and our last day in NYC. Our day started out with us heading to breakfast. Then it was off to FAO Swartz. I remember my mothering taking me there when I was little and me just freaking out loving it so very much. So I was very excited to share a memory like this with my boys.  As we got off the subway I noticed the weather wasn't looking so friendly and then within seconds it just started pouring on us. We ran for cover and found a space in front of an apartment building. We basically set up camp and watch the street flood with water. I remember being happy the rain was finally cooling off the hot weather, but it just kept coming down so hard with thought we would spend out whole day there. 

 We did have a lot of fun snacking and giggle with each other but we figured we could find a nearby diner and get some coco and stuff while we waited out the storm. So off we went running in the pouring rain. Liam hated it and screamed the whole time. Eli on the other hand saw it as an adventure. Lucky for us we found a diner pretty close and didn't get too wet. 

 We stayed in the diner and about half way through the rain stopped so we thought it was safe to head off to the toy store. Davina had some things to do to get ready for her class that night so she went to the park and we went to the Toy store. The boys and I had so much fun walking around and exploring. We went through the Lego section in honor of daddy, the boys played a long time with some plastic knights and horses. We made our way to the book section where it was story time. We stayed there for a while and really enjoyed ourselves. We finished off the toy store by playing on the giant piano. I showed the boys how to run and slide and they would try that a lot. It was super cute.

 We had to leave the store and head to our reservations at Serendipity. We quickly meet up with Davina and barely made it for our reservations. None of us were hungry, but we HAD to try the desserts. I knew my boys would go crazy over the frozen hot chocolate, and the banana split so we ordered those. Davina had never been there before so she and the boys really enjoyed this treat.  We all just sat back relaxed at had fun. Since it was out last day I really wanted to squeeze in central park. 

We quickly took off to make it to the park before Davina had to leave for her class. When we finally made it to the park Eli fell asleep. I was bummed but figured we could still have fun anyway. In New York it is fun because they have tons of squirrels everywhere, NOT something you see in Arizona. So Liam would run around trying to catch them.  After a while I got Eli to wake up and he started to join Eli in the great adventure of trying to catch a squirrel he started off by just running at them. Then he would hold still and trying and get them to come up to him then jump on them. After a while I pulled out some of our snacks and he tried to lure them to him. We got close a few times but never really got any super close to us. Davina had to leave for her class to Eli had a little break down when he realized we were leaving and he hadn't caught a squirrel. 

We rush to meet Grace at another park. We were going to hang out with Grace while Davina was at her class and Grace would help with ilia. At this other park there were squirrels. So the boys started out on their adventure again. This time we meet this really nice old lady and she had two bags full of nuts that she shared with us. At this point the boys had a blast just feeding dozens of squirrels right out of their hands. I know I am probably a bad mom for letting them get to close to these animals, but they loved it and I loved watching them.  Davina left and shortly Grace got there so we headed off t o a park grace wanted to show us called Skyline park. It was a park about 4 stories up and basically in between buildings in the sky. We grabbed some food and enjoyed our evening at this park. This park out say is very adult not really for kids, but it was super cool and we loved learning about it. I for sure want to come back with Jacob someday. It is pretty romantic....not so romantic with a 4 year old and a 2 year old.  After the park we meet up with Davina and then headed home that was the end of our great NYC adventure. We loved it and had an AMAZING time.