Legoland
Over the school holidays we also headed to the Westchester Legoland. It had been something we talked about doing for quite some time but hadn’t gotten around to because it is kind of out the way. We figured we would … Continue reading
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New York Transit Museum
Over Tate’s Christmas school holidays we headed to the transit museum. It was a surprise to realise that despite being here for almost 3 years, we hadn’t actually been there yet! Quite remiss of us; given our train loving children! … Continue reading
Canstruction
Back in November we headed to Brookfield Place to check out the Canstruction Exhibit. Canstruction is a charity which hosts competitions, exhibitions and events showing artist’s structures made out of unopened cans of food and other non-perishable items. After the … Continue reading
Christmas, Part 2
On Boxing Day the kids were excited to finish opening up the rest of their presents. They were so happy with all the presents they received for Christmas that they refused to leave the house the whole day. No playground, … Continue reading
Christmas, Part 1
It sounds funny to do a two part Christmas post, but it makes perfect sense to us. That is exactly what happened in our household! Or at least, the opening up of Christmas presents took two days! To start off … Continue reading
Christmas Trees!
Time to dedicate a blog post to Christmas Trees. It goes without saying that our kids LOVE Christmas Trees! As an example, every time we go through the lobby of our apartment building they ask to touch the Christmas Tree. … Continue reading
Santa Rescue
The first Christmas we were in New York we went to the Santa Rescue at the Fire Museum here in NY. Last year we missed out as we were on a plane to Australia at the time. But when we … Continue reading
Gingerbread Lane
As part of our Christmas activities we headed to the New York Hall of Science a few weeks ago to check out Gingerbread Lane. Unfortunately we didn’t find Gingerbread Lane as exciting as we’d hoped but the kids certainly had … Continue reading
Holiday Train Show
Our first holiday activity for the year was to head to the New York Botanical Gardens for the Holiday Train Show. As you may remember, this has been an annual activity for us since being in New York. This year … Continue reading
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
As you all know, today is Halloween! The kids have been planning their costumes and talking about what would happen for a while now. So they were excited to get to the good parts of the day – handing out … Continue reading