"The Muppets Take Manhattan" was one of my favorite movies as a kid. And now I got to take my little muppets to Manhattan to adventure all around the city yesterday. And we had a BLAST! We took the subway into the city, which was so exciting to Avy that she almost died of a glee overdose. It was the first time she has been on the subway since she's old enough to know what's happening. So here is our photo journal of our fun trip yesterday. To see the pictures full-sized, just click on any of them. Enjoy!
Here Avy is enjoying her train ride
(Also, note her super-awesome "Sun Day Afternoon" sunhat from The Nesting House!)
And here's Violet literally hanging out on the train
We got off the train at 50th Street so we could overstimulate the girls in Times Square. It worked.
(thank you, Hipstamatic iPhone app...)
(this is Violet's overstimulated face)
Then we went to the M&M store, which also overstimulated everyone -- in a good way
(even though we didn't have any chocolate, Avy's face in this picture is objectively terrifying!)
After that we went to the new flagship Lego Store in Rockefeller Center. That was exciting but no pictures were taken, sadly. We were too excited about all the amazing Legos. After that, we headed to St Patrick's Cathedral, which was amazingly beautiful. Upon entering the building, Avy said "This place smells like the Birth Center" (referring to the incense smell, which we burned a lot of when I was in labor with Violet.
It's moments like this that I really adore Avy) :)
After that we headed toward Central Park where we had big plans to spend the rest of our day at a little amusement park for kids called Victorian Gardens. More on that in a minute.
Here's Avy cutely hitching a ride from Grampy.
While on our travels, we met Elmo who - from afar - Avy wanted to hug, but when she got up close and he asked her to give him 5, she death-gripped me and started crying. So much for Elmo love.
Then we got to Victorian Gardens where Avy went on her first "roller coaster" ride and laughed and squealed with joy the entire time. I was so thrilled! A girl after my own heart! Woo hoo!
We told her to make a funny face for the cameras. Here was her face:
I even got her to put up her arms. Here's her doing with with Allen (we went on 4 times).
So we had a great time in Manhattan yesterday. Everyone slept SOOOO well last night. It was great.
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