While it's true that Jake has been a few places I've never been, he does sometimes get a bit jealous of some of the adventures the kids and I have taken. He's never seen the giant redwoods, for instance, and he didn't want us to get to the Great Barrier Reef without him. But one fairly simple thing he had wanted to do (that we already had done) was take an overnight train ride in the US. He's ridden Amtrak before, and has taken overnight trains, but no overnight Amtrak ride. So we took the train, overnight, to New York City. The timing was pretty great, actually, we got on, went to bed, in the morning had breakfast, and then found ourselves in midtown Manhattan.
We had a wonderful week in New York City, staying in a VRBO in Harlem. We took the ferry out to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. We spent plenty of time in Chinatown, looked down from Top of the Rock, and saw Matilda on Broadway and The King and I at Lincoln Center, and went to a puppet show in Central Park.
We went a bit off the beaten path and found the oldest manhole in New York City, and visited the New York Earth Room (a room full of...dirt). The sea-glass carousel in lower Manhattan was gorgeous and a great highlight, as was the NYC Skywalk.
We slept well in the City that Never Sleeps, and ate well, too, eating in for breakfast and dinner, and enjoying some wonderful and varied restaurants (and a lot of bakeries) during the day.
We did, of course, go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to the American Museum of Natural History, as well as to the 9/11 Memorial. We also enjoyed the National Museum of Mathematics, the Harlem Art Museum, and the NY Public Library. We lit a candle at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and we even made about $1 in found money in front of the Stock Exchange on Wall Street!
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