.... have come to a close.
We took Mercer to the Central Park Zoo on Saturday. He liked the penguins ("oooohhhh") and the monkeys as well as some of the birds that were in a walk-through habitat. We got to see a penguin feeding (that's why there's a person behind glass) and also saw a baby monkey (monkies are barely visible on the rocks in the photo). We thought he would like the sea lions because they do tricks, but he wasn't so impressed. 
Nor was he impressed with the polar bears. (They were off in a corner making baby polar bears.) The adults and the teenagers were the ones giggling at that exhibit.
We took Mercer to the Central Park Zoo on Saturday. He liked the penguins ("oooohhhh") and the monkeys as well as some of the birds that were in a walk-through habitat. We got to see a penguin feeding (that's why there's a person behind glass) and also saw a baby monkey (monkies are barely visible on the rocks in the photo). We thought he would like the sea lions because they do tricks, but he wasn't so impressed. 
Nor was he impressed with the polar bears. (They were off in a corner making baby polar bears.) The adults and the teenagers were the ones giggling at that exhibit.We also took him to the carousel in the park -- but he really did not like it. Most of the time he spent crying and clinging to me -- even though I moved him from a moving horse and propped him up on a stationary horse. 
Still too young for that I suppose?
Still too young for that I suppose?
He took a nap -- then when he woke up, Todd's mom & brother, Bob, picked him up from the city. He did fine.... didn't cry at all when he left us (we tried not to make a big deal about it so he wouldn't flip out). It was a little odd for us -- and a little tough at times -- but we had a nice time in the city. We ended up doing a lot. We...
...went to a local brewery,
went on an open-air bus tour,
went to the Museum of the City (history of NYC -- pretty interesting),
went on a harbour cruise,
went to an off-off Broadway show (Avenue Q -- an "irreverent" puppet show),
went to BB King's basement jazz club after the show,
went to the Guggenheim Museum (currently, there's a Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit b/c it's the 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim),
went out to dinner with friends from college who live in NYC,
went to the Museum of Arts and Design,
and rounded out our trip with another stroll in Central Park to explore some other areas.
Whew!
We didn't get to do "everything" there is to do there, but we did plenty!
Right now, we're in New Jersey. We'll post about the visit with the family another day.
Have a great rest of the week!
Candice
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