Summer 2015 Vacation--Part 6 (NYC...day one)

NYC, what can I say?  Not a huge fan.  After paying a million tolls on the way to our hotel--they even made us pay double when we took a wrong turn and had to go through the booth again--lame, we decided not to drive into NYC ourselves (our hotel was actually in New Jersey).  Luckily, there was a bus stop right outside our hotel that took us right into the subway station.  The bus was quite pleasant...especially when compared to the horridness that is the subway!

Here we are at the subway station for the first time.  It was so hot, stuffy, dirty, and stinky.

 

The elevators were even grosser than the rest of the subway...not to mention way out of the way and slow so we spent a lot of time carrying the stroller up and down stairs.  It looked funnier going upstairs, but we didn't get a pic of that.  Mike even got an earful from a Newyorker for blocking the escalator with the stroller:) 

 

 I think we only got on the wrong subway once...maybe twice.  But then there was that time we went down in the elevator and then up the stairs right back to where we started!!  It's so confusing!  If Mike hadn't been there, I think I would have just sat in a corner and cried!!

 

The first thing we did once we got into the city was see the Statue of Liberty.  We actually took the Staten Island Ferry out into the water to get a better look.

 We then, had to try out Shake Shack, since Mike had invested in their stock and made a bunch of money.  It was crazy busy, and a little pricey for burgers but their milk shakes were TO. DIE. FOR.

We then went to the 9/11 Memorial and museum which was really sad.  Summer was absolutely horrible at the museum.  Mike took Jordan into a section of the museum and he took Summer's pacifier with him.  Summer was super tired and screamed for about 45 min. straight until Mike came back with the pacifier and once she got it, she fell right to sleep.

 

 Our last stop was the Brooklyn Bridge.  It was SO HOT and all the kids were complaining (except Jordan--she is a superstar when it comes to walking).  But I thought it was great fun and the views were amazing.

When we finally made it back to the hotel we were so exhausted and hungry.  Nobody wanted to go out for dinner, so we ordered pizza and it didn't get there until 9:30pm.  Luckily Summer stayed up long enough to eat and then we all crashed.