NYC Day One

NYC Day one…
We got the chance to travel to New York City over the Easter Holiday to visit our good friends from Singapore.

We caught the early flight out of Houston to get a good jump on the day. We arrived in NYC just as it started to rain. We scrapped our plans to see the Statue of Liberty that day and walked the city instead.

We started out at the famous authentic New York deli, “Stage Deli.” It is a deli popular with locals and tourists located on 7th avenue. Their sandwiches are all named after famous people. I enjoyed the Howard Stern, a double decker, artery-clogging delight with brisquit and pastrami piled high on rye bread. It was delicious and was only made better by the yummy Russian dressing served on the side!

{One interesting observation about NYC was the number of candy stores. It seemed like there was at least one on every block. Here in Houston we like to joke about every block having a cleaners and a nail salon. I would much rather have a candy store on every block!}

We trudged our way through the rain (which varied between sprinkling and a steady drizzle all day) past Rockefeller Center, past Trump Plaza, past Central Park and on to the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts. The museum was pretty packed, but had tons of cool things to see. We were only able to see a small fraction of it before the kids declared anarchy and we had to scurry out before a national treasure was destroyed. I really enjoyed the Tibetan armor exhibit and loved the Degas room. It was surreal to see so many of the original paintings I have seen in print countless times in real life. Someday I will go back with no kids (in my next life, or at least my next stage in life).

After narrowly escaping disaster at the Met we hopped a taxi down to the Central Park Zoo. We took the kids to the Children’s Zoo and let them play around for a while. When we couldn’t take the rain any longer we headed for Greenwich. The kids were thrilled to finally be able to play with no more sight seeing for the day.

We left the kids with Big Sam and the adults went to dinner in downtown Greenwich at a small Italian restaurant called Terra. The food was perfect and it was nice to have time to sit down and engage in adult conversation.

Day Two tomorrow…