Last month Sara and I both took some vacation time (the first time we’ve done that since June 08!). We spent the first half of the week working on the house (kitchen painted, flowers planted, closets organized, ikea furniture built). And then on Thursday we headed to NYC with Jasper in tow.
We were dreading the train ride (4 hours, two seats for the three of us, and hi, trapped on a metal moving box with a toddler who can’t stop moving). But it went ok. We did spent a lot of time pacing the aisles. But we also packed a lot of tricks—a new car, a new animal (tiger!), a set of animal finger puppets, and the biggest hit of all, a roll of painter’s tape. We unrolled it, we stuck it, we made “rocks” with it, we put it on our clothes, we built boxes out of it. It was great.
Jasper loved the city. He played in a playground in Central Park (and got kissed by a little boy named Leo), he went to FAQ Schwartz, we went to the Central Park Zoo (which also has a really cute little children’s petting zoo), we ate many many restaurant meals (and discovered the awesomeness of our new bib clips), we played with Alyssa and Bekah and Stacy, we saw Neil Patrick Harris at brunch one morning, and a cousin and aunt that I hadn’t seen in years at Penn Station. We went to parks, chased pigeons. We went to the Natural History Museum. It was great, and Jasper’s new word of the trip was “WOOOOOWWWW”.
Pictures here.
