central park zoo

Following a really good night sleep in our fancy hotel, we headed back to Aunt H's apartment for a truly NY breakfast- bagels, lox, and cream cheese! With plenty of coffee to wash it down with!  Yum!  I had asked Aunt H if we could have bagels the next morning and she certainly delivered.  Toasted to perfection but still chewy on the inside.  You can only get a great bagel in NY.

Following a few pictures, hubs, big guy, and I took a cab (shhhh, don't tell Aunt H who wanted us to hop on the 8th street bus) to the Central Park Zoo.  The cab got us their very quickly and big guy loved that he was in a car but not in a car seat.  He had this grin on his face the whole time, like, we are really getting away with it!  He was also eating some of H's pretzels, which they bonded over the night before.

Upon getting to the zoo, we went first to the shortened but 4D version of the Polar Express movie.  4D you ask?  Why, it's 3D, but with actual effects, like snow falling, wind blowing your hair, and bubbles flying.  Big guy wasn't too into the glasses, in fact neither hubs nor I were allowed to wear them either. but he loved the snow and bubbles!

Following the movie, we went to the children's zoo, which had some really cool ducks and a place to feed the animals.  All was going well until some heathen of a child stomped on big guy's hand on a play area and big guy lost it.  And the mother didn't even say anything, like, sorry or make her kid apologized.  so, I said nicely how horrible it was that she nor the kid had manners.  hehe, then she walked away from us quickly.  The only thing that calmed big guy was having hubs feed the sheep and an alpaca named Richie.

Following the hand stomp, it was downhill.  big guy wanted to run crazily through the zoo.  which at our local zoo isn't an issue because it's big and I know where everything is.  But this zoo is small and I didn't know my way around.  cue hysterical crying and melting on the ground.  We decided to call it quits and upon leaving stopped to get some popcorn.  Which instantly turned big guy into a normal human being momentarily.  He happily munched popcorn and yogurt while hubs and I had some hamburger and french fries.  After eating, we hopped on another cab down 5th avenue back to our car.

We made really good time on the way home, big guy slept the whole way, waking up periodically, but then falling back asleep.  He woke up for good as we reached our last toll.  We decided to do some black friday shopping before ending our NY adventure!