the big apple

Last week I had to attend a conference in NYC so we decided to make it a family trip! We learned a couple of lessons on how to travel / sight see with an infant, lessons that will surely help us on our two week trip overseas next month. We pretty much did every touristy thing you can probably think of when it comes to NYC, so I'll just let the pictures do the talking.

Train ride from DC- Union Station to NYC- Penn Station

High Line Park

High Line Park is an old elevated train track that has been turned into a mile+ long walking path. Very cool art along the way, too.

30 Rock 

View from the ferry leaving Battery Park.

Sean's nerdy influence. This is the original "occupy wall street" park. 

We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. Totally recommend it- great views!

Central Park

South view from 'Top of the Rock'

North view from 'Top of the Rock'

Central Park

Our hotel (thanks to my work conference) : the Waldorf-Astoria

 

Teagan's friends waiting for us to get home.

Times Square

 

Lady Liberty

Checking in at the east coast's immigration museum. This place was so cool. Go there.

Loved the Mister Softee food trucks.

What's notable about this pic is that we are in a taxi- without a car seat- in NYC. Never again.

We visited the FAO Schwartz store on 5th Avenue. It was crazy to see how quickly Teags reacted to this place- it's like she knew it was a store for kids. Her face seriously lit up at the sight of all of the toys.

This picture reminds me of a story that we heard on NPR... This American Life, I think. I did a search and couldn't find the link, but essentially, the story was about a department store and how little girls could come and adopt babies. Little girls could pick and choose what they wanted their babies to look like- I'm pretty sure that we found the store that the story was about. It was actually pretty creepy, but Teags thought the babies were awesome. She probably wanted to eat them.

Who wouldn't want a rocking polar bear chair?

Whoa. This shark is so cool!

We ran into Spidy on the elevator.

Teagan's favorite toy at FAO was this creepy peek-a-boo bear. Check it out:

I can't believe it's taken us three years to actually make the trip up to NYC- it's so close (only a 3 hour train ride)! We're definitely looking forward to going again sometime soon!