Houston, we have another TEENager!
How can it be? Our "middle little" will actually be 13 1/2 next week...
{September, 2021}
For some time, I've planned to take the children on a special, solo trip to NYC when each turned the big 13. We took B back in January 2019, and though her trip was postponed a bit due to that darn "C(OVID)" word, now it's L's turn!
While L has been to NYC a handful of times before, it's always been with both her brother and sister in tow...
Over the years, we've visited a few sites here and there...
Fall 2010 - lunching at the American Girl Café, grabbing a cupcake at the original Magnolia Bakery on Bleecker, taking her first subway ride, and visiting (well, snoozing through most of) the American Museum of Natural History, while in town for the weekend to hear Aunt E preach...
Spring 2013 - playing in Riverside Park, paying respect at President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb, lunching at the New York Junior League, touring President Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace, becoming a cab riding pro, and exploring Central Park...
Summer 2013 - ferrying over to Staten Island, visiting the Statue of Liberty from afar, taking in the view from atop the Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge, riding the tram over to Roosevelt Island, exploring under the Queensboro Bridge, meeting Cousin A, and enjoying dinner at Ellen's Stardust Diner...
Summer 2015 - saying goodbye to the iconic FAO Schwarz store on Fifth Avenue with Cousin A and taking a late night taxi ride...
Spring 2019 - visiting both the real Winnie-the-Pooh and friends stuffed animals and the famous lions at the NYPL's iconic location on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, hanging at Rockefeller Center, saying hello to the NEW FAO Schwarz store, now located at Rockefeller Center,
walking through Times Square, enjoying dinner at Junior's, checking out the Today Show Plaza, taking in the views from the Top of the Rock, experiencing her first Uber ride, devouring milkshakes at Black Tap and cookie dough scoops at DO, strolling through Washington Square Park and having fun on The High Line...
most of them have been off the beaten path, and she's not really done a lot of the typical "tourist" things in the Big Apple...
So, this morning first thing, we hit the road ~ just the two of us!
We took our time, making a few favorite stops along the way...
We enjoyed a much anticipated (see here) lunch at The Village Coffee Shoppe at The Draper Mercantile in Draper, VA...
found a hitchhiking magnolia leaf from our yard at home...
and grabbed dinner at another favorite, Isaac's, in Mechanicsburg, PA...
before stopping for the night...
Tomorrow, it's into the city we go!
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