Once getting checked into our last hotel, we headed into the city. It took forever to find a parking spot so we ditched our plan to take the subway to Shea stadium and just had dinner and then drove there. The first picture is of the empire state building from our parking spot. The second is Ryan carrying Nathan to dinner, he was so sleepy. We had dinner at Joshua Tree bar and grill. It was yummy. Nathan was so tired and spent most of the time laying on the bench seat.
After dinner we drove to Shea stadium and were pleasantly surprised tickets were half price that night so we paid $5 to see the game.
This is the new stadium gong up right next door it will be Citi Stadium. Sorry but that doesn't sound nearly as cool.
The Mariner's had a brand slam in the second so the Met's were down by three at the bottom of the ninth. Nathan put his rally cap on but with two guys on base the batter struck out and the game was over. But is was fun. Nathan still loves baseball. We got back to the room pretty late and went right to sleep. The next morning we tried to get an early start so we could see a few things in the city before leaving. We managed to check out by 9:00.
After dinner we drove to Shea stadium and were pleasantly surprised tickets were half price that night so we paid $5 to see the game. This is the new stadium gong up right next door it will be Citi Stadium. Sorry but that doesn't sound nearly as cool.
The Mariner's had a brand slam in the second so the Met's were down by three at the bottom of the ninth. Nathan put his rally cap on but with two guys on base the batter struck out and the game was over. But is was fun. Nathan still loves baseball. We got back to the room pretty late and went right to sleep. The next morning we tried to get an early start so we could see a few things in the city before leaving. We managed to check out by 9:00.This time we found a parking spot pretty easily and took the subway to China town. I got a great Coach bag to use for the baby's diaper bag. Allison was in heaven. Nathan liked the subway most of all.
Since we had such a perfect parking spot and Emily and Allison had to catch a plane four hours earlier than us they took a taxi and we continued on the subway going uptown.
We stopped near Central Park. Nathan enjoyed exploring for a bit on some rocks.
After Central Park we headed over the FAO Schwartz toy store. Nathan had fun exploring there as well and wanted to buy everything in sight. We, to his dismay, didn't buy a thing. When we came out of the store there were dark clouds overhead. We headed to the subway and when we got off it was pouring rain. We hadn't brought our umbrella so every time we got to a street light Nathan tried hailing a taxi. He'd put his hand in the air and yell "Taxi!" It was pretty funny. Later he told Grandma Wagstaff he liked New York but didn't get to ride in a taxi. Funny kid. We got stuck in traffic so it took us over two hours to go the twenty or so miles to JFK. But we had left in plenty of time. So we had no problems. Over all it was a great trip. We got to do a lot in a short period of time. Nathan was an angel and everything went well. I think we have Nathan convinced turning around is part of driving in places of the unknown but for our inexperience traveling in NY I think we did a pretty good job.
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I loved seeing all your pictures and reading about your trip to New York!! Jake is sitting here looking at the pictures too and he loves to see Nathan in them--he makes him laugh! I'm glad you had better success at your baseball game with Nathan than we did at the Cubs game with the boys--they couldn't care less! What a fun time for you guys. Now that we are all home, bring on the summer fun!
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