NYC with Andy and Max

We had the most fantastic fall break trip to NYC with Andy and Max! It truly was magical. I see why everyone talks about New York in October. It was perfection. Here we are on our first morning, heading out to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

Gotta love boys

Max on the stairs of separation at Ellis Island. He'd just learned about Ellis Island at school and taught all so many things.

We headed to the 9/11 memorial pools and museum. Sad and heavy, but a good experience.

If you ask the boys what their favorite part of the trip was they'll say it was the caffeinated drinks we let them have every day. :)

A super yummy dinner at Tony's Di Napoli

The boys' first intro to Times Square. I think they found it pretty overwhelming and terrifying. There were a few crazies that scared them they they had a lot of questions about.

We saw Hamilton! A dream come true for this Hamilton lover. He was disappointed it wasn't the original cast, but otherwise loved it. :)

The next day we started out at the Empire State Building.

Then we headed to Brooklyn! Max and I were the only ones cool enough to ride the carousel.

Brooklyn Market where Max scored these sweet shades. Max was determined to spend every dollar he had as quickly as possible.

Walking back to Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Hadestown! I'd seen it earlier in the year and loved it, so I was excited for them to see it.

The next day we tried to go to church, but it was stake conference or something so we were unsuccessful. Still, cool to see the building and the temple!

We rode bikes through Central Park.

We had a delicious brunch at The Smith. Max loves this pic. :)

We headed to the Natural History Museum and loved it! Here they are with Sue the T-Rex. The boys had recently seen "Night at the Museum" and wanted to find all the things in the movie, but it turns out a lot of them aren't in the real museum. But luckily, Sue is there!

We walked through Central Park after and it was such a gorgeous, lovely day.

More treasures Max found.

We headed to Evensong at Saint Thomas Church.

Lego Store, of course!

Rockefeller Center

An FAO Schwarz stop

We headed to a cool jazz concert at the Lincoln Center at Dizzy's Club. It was cool! Maybe not our style (it was cowboy music fused with jazz), but still a cool experience.

Our final day we headed to The Met. The boys have an awesome art teacher at school who has taught them a lot of art history. They had a lot of great artists they wanted to see works by. Andy's big hope was to see Starry Night, which we realized was actually at the Moma. Oops. Next time, Andy!

We had this painting up on our TV for a while last year.

Max wanted to see Jackson Pollack.

Serenading everyone at the M&M store.

Max's turn

We had the most wonderful time and had so much fun showing our boys one of our favorite cities!