Jeremy and I have been talking about a trip to New York City to see the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. So in a 26 hour-span, we left our house, drove to eastern PA, stayed in a hotel, woke up and drove to Hoboken and found a parking lot (an adventure), figured out the PATH system, boarded, arrived in NYC, had an awesome day in the city, got back to Hoboken and the drove the entire way home. Crazy? Maybe, but it was awesome and we'll never regret or forget it.
One highlight was the Lego store in Rockefeller Plaza. We spent some quality time there. We didn't buy much, but we did get the boys matching Lego stockings. Jackson really want to fine the build-a-minifigure counter - we did. He got to make 3 Leog minifigures (well, actually, he built 2 and Jude built one).
This next group of photos has a theme - me with my boys. Jeremy enjoyed using our (borrowed from my dad since I broke our Easyshare) camera. I love when he takes pictures, b/c I never know what he's taking until we get home and download them. Well, since he had the camera all day, I ended up in most of the photos.
Times Square. What a busy place; there were people everywhere. We really only went there so we could go to the Toys R Us. It is a 3-story toy store with a huge indoor ferris wheel. Our plan was to ride the ferris wheel, but the tickets were sold out for a while and we really did have the time to wait. So we walked around and enjoyed the way-too-many toys and saw the way-too-many cool displays.
My favorite photo of this bunch is, can you guess? The only one I took, any guesses?
Jeremy and I had this grandiose thought that maybe we could get a really nice photo of the boys in NYC that would be ideal for our Christmas card. I think Jude heard about our plan ahead of time - we just couldn't get him to cooperate. Jackson tried so hard to help but you know what, look at all these fun photos we got instead! Jeremy and I think that we should make a collage card with all the photos we got
trying to get the
one that we really wanted.
Of course all Hudkins trips are filled with "Eye Spy" adventure looking for vehicles, fire trucks, buses, etc. This trip provided many opportunities for seeing and riding. Since we parked in NJ, we had to take the PATH rail into the city. When we went to board the train, it seemed pretty full and we decided to wait for the next one (not knowing how long that would be). Well, the Conductor came out and said something like, "What are you folks doing?" We told him we were going to wait. He said to follow him. He took us onto a car that was full of passengers and wiggled us through everyone saying, "excuse us, please move aside, I have some helpers today!" He took us to an empty spot on the train and then I realized it's where he stands. He let us not only hang with him, but he chatted with us the whole way, gave us pointers, AND let the boys push buttons to sound the door-closing warning, open and close the doors. Can you imagine? My boys, getting to help run the train? If we left the city right then, it would've been fine!
Other transportation highlights were the multiple fire trucks we saw, the funny little police car, all the subway rides.
It was really an amazing day - I can't believe we did all that in 1 day. The ride home was a little bit of a challenge b/c Jeremy and I were tired, but all the excitement from the day kept us going.
We're already talking about 'when we go back.'
