A Saturday in NYC with MorMor

Today after Little Gym, we drove into “the big city” (as K & O call it!) with MorMor. We divided our time between our two favorite parts of Manhattan: Chinatown & Greenwhich Village. We arrived in time for lunch at Joe’s Shanghai — which is, absolutely, one of our all-time favorite restaurants on the planet. My mom loves it as much as we do. We go there first and foremost for the Soup Dumplings but also for the Szechuan Style String Beans and the Shanghai Fried Flat Noodles. It was K & O’s first visit there… a big event in the life-history of our family!!!… and we found out that Owen loves it (especially the green beans!). Kyle — well, not so much! But later in the day Ky Ky loved the Haagen Dazs strawberry milkshake enough to make up for it! After exploring the streets of Chinatown (and my mom, Owen, and I exploring a sketchy back-room of a street vendor where we purchased two awesome Prada bags that clearly were not 100% legal… and for which we clearly did not pay the full “Prada” price…), we took a taxi to Washington Square Park. The highlight of the day for K & O was most definately the taxi ride! But they also loved the Washington Square Park Playground almost as much. The weather in Manhattan was unbelievably beatiful today and hit record highs in the 70s this afternoon. Everyone was out, thus we had a prime people-watching day (always a favorite passtime for my mom and I)! Owen was in his glory in the city today. Kyle was a bit over-stimulated. Braydon, my mother, and I… well, we were all a mixture of both. But how much fun was it? It was so much fun!