NYC Part 3

On our last full day in the Big Apple, we took a water taxi from midtown down to the 9/11 memorial and museum. Always a very moving experience, and interesting to see it through the eyes of someone younger who didn't live through it! We took a cab to Chinatown and walked around there and into Little Italy, where we had a nice lunch. After I dragged Aidan to SoHo to see the Puck building for Will & Grace, he and I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and then took the water taxi from Brooklyn all the way to midtown, and got a great view of the Statue of Liberty on the way! That night after a sushi dinner, we went with our friends to an off-Broadway production of The Office: A Musical Parody that we got last-minute tickets for! It was very low-budget but funny and the kids loved it (even Jen and Leslie loved it, and they had never even seen an episode of The Office!). After the show we all went for milkshakes at Black Tap afterwards, and they were insane! We laughed a ton and it was a great way to spend our final night in the city! The next morning we woke up and headed back to Rockefeller Plaza (unfortunately we overslept and missed seeing the Today Show hosts come out on the Plaza!), saw the Plaza Hotel, had another walk through Central Park, and got a great view from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel! We flew home after lunch and went straight for some Tex-Mex with Daniel and Avery, since that's the one type of food you can't find in NY :) Also over the course of the trip, Aidan read notes that I had asked all the men in our family to write to him. He loved hearing encouraging advice and funny stories from his dad, grandfathers, uncles, and great uncles! He has a great support system as he enters his teenage years. It was such a fantastic trip and I can't wait to take Avery!