Now for some NYC pictures

The first morning in New York we went to the Central Park zoo. It was extremely hot and humid. We felt sorry for the polar bear! It was nice and chilly in the penguin house, though.







It was great to get a chance to see Julia right before she departed to 1) Albany, soon to be followed by 2) Australia and 3) France.











We had a really nice time visiting with Adam. He and Douglas got along famously.








The kids really enjoyed riding the Staten Island ferry. We popped into a tiny museum near the ferry dock on Staten Island and the kids got to pretend to dig for fossils in a little sandbox.








Here are the family en route to the natural history museum. It was really nice to see everyone. We also got to see Dan's brothers and his grandmother. Unfortunately, the hot weather followed us to the east coast, but we got out quite a bit nevertheless.








The kids enjoyed the dinosaur bones at the American Museum of Natural History.

The last morning before we left we went over to the Diana Ross playground in Central Park and the kids played in the sand. Contrary to Julia's speculation, there was no gold lame at the Diana Ross playground.