David was attending a conference down in the city, so we decided to go a day early with him for a fun day. We parked near the temple and headed into Central Park. First stop, the Carousel.
We thought ahead and brought the kids scooters, so we scootered through the park to the Central Park Zoo.
Austin insisted on getting his picture taken with this statue in the Zoo. Then he insisted on hiding behind it and making eagle noises and wanted me to take a picture of that. I didn't include that picture, but you can imagine it.
We got a front row seat for the sea lion feeding.
Then we grabbed some lunch and made it over to the penguins in time for the penguin feeding.
We saw lots of other animals including the grizzly bears that replaced the polar bear, monkeys, a fox, lots of birds, snakes, bats,and lots of other animals. Then we went over to the Children's Zoo and saw a few more animals including these really cute bunnies.
I am sure that somewhere I have a picture of Parker, McKay, and Bryson with these same bunny statues when they were little.
Then we scootered over to a playground to play for a while.
Austin really loved this slide
Kadence loved playing in the sand best.
It was a little weird being at the playground with our own children, most of the kids were there with their nannies. After the park we were planning to go down to the big branch of the New York City Library. It was about 20 blocks away, so we were planning to take a cab, but the kids were doing so well on their scooters, we decided to go walk until they got tired.
We stopped for a little meat on a stick to refuel.
Then we were off to brave the city streets again. It was rush hour and going down 5th Avenue was really busy. I was really nervous at first about the twins on scooters in the crowd, but they were fantastic! We had to walk quickly to keep up with them, and they made it all the way to the library.
This is the library with the lions outside that appears in the beginning of Ghost Busters and in other movies.
The treasure that we went to find at the library was a display of the original Winnie the Pooh and his friends that were the real Christopher Robin's stuffed animals that his father, A.A. Milne, wrote the original stories about.
Then we took some time to read a few books before the library closed and we had to drop David off at his hotel and drive home.
On the way back to the car we went past the temple.
We had so much fun, we might go back again soon. Having the scooters made a huge difference. Not a single, "I'm tired." I guess if we can make it there....(we'll make it anywhere).
