Day #150

Happy Fathers day!!

Our last day in NYC.. We had to pack in alot.. And boy did we..

A quick change in plans this morning. Instead of going to the WTC Memorial in the evening right before we left New York, tickets became available in the morning. So we had to head out the door sooner than we had planned. We also had to have breakfast and check out too.. UGH.. Nothing is ever easy when your in a hurry. Hit the NJ PATH to NYC and walked a few blocks and made it just in time to WTC for our ticket time.

What a totally awesome tribute to the victims, survivors & Hero's of 911. From there the kids had to use the bathroom, of course they did!!! We found a really coo little church just outside of the Memorial. St. Paul's Chapel. This was the church that George Washington attended. And is the oldest public building in continuous use in NYC. And it was a place of rest for the workers at the WTC. It was really cool, and was a nice find.

From there we hopped on our Double Decker tour bus, and rode it around our tour loop, Through lower Manhatten, China Town, The Financial District, Fisherman's Warf, etc.. Then we got off at Rockefeller Center and headed to "The Top of The Rock" "30 Rock". The view was great... From there we decided that we would head to Central Park and do our bike rental for a little ride through there.

As we were walking we found a Chipotle and decided that now was a great time to have a late lunch. So we headed in the kids found a seat and Kristi and I went up to order food. Well just about the time I broke out my wallet to pay, Nathan starts screaming and crying.. We looked up as he was getting up off the floor, he had his hand up to his ear, and there was blood. I guess he decided that now was a good time to swing between the chairs, That happened at about the exact time that the guy behind the counter told me that would be $40 bucks.. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!!!!

Kristi goes and checks on Nate.. I still cant get over that what I pay $20 for normally at home is double in NYC.. This place is as bad as Disney!! Kristi come over and says that he busted his ear up pretty bad and may need stitches.. The guy behind the counter, I think is a rocket scientist.. He tells me that we may want to take him to the bathroom cause that looks bad.. Thanks.. I get everyone's food to the table. Everyone wants to know what we are going to do.. I said "Were going to eat.." I needed time to get over the Sticker shock of $40 Chipotle & Nates busted ear. And I was hungry.. So while we ate, or in Nate's case tried to eat. Leah wasn't very hungry now because she was worked up, I look up Urgent Care in my trusty smart phone and found an urgent care about 5 blocks away. Took Nate to the bathroom and got his ear cleaned up. Put a band-aid on it and started the 5 block walk to the Urgent care.

They got us right in and took care of Nate. Nate worried on the walk to the urgent care about stitches. We we told him that that would be up to the Doctor. Well he got lucky they could actually close it with Derma-Bond, super glue. Everyone was happy. Until we walked down to the bike rental place and they told us that they were not renting bikes because they close in 15 min. Leah was not happy.. She ws mad at Nate for making her miss her bike ride. So we just went ahead and walked over into Central Park and let the kids play at a park there for a while and climb on the big rocks, huge rocks.. Then it was time to head back to the Path Station, 26 blocks away.. Kristi figured that since everyone was tired and already frazzled with the events of the day. that we would just hail a Yellow Cab.. Great Choice!! It was actually the easiest part of our whole day.. In a short amount of time we were at the path station, and back at the hotel in no time. Got the van from the valet and on the road again heading west towards Home!

Here is the view 20 min into our trip home.

All in all it was a great vacation. And I can see us heading to NYC to leave on a cruise again. And see more of the sights in the city that we missed.




Day #14 in the galley starts here.