Monday July 15th was going to be a walking day. Nothing set as far as scheduled tours or anything, but still had a lot we wanted to see. AND it was Grandma Susan's birthday and we were excited to spend the day with her!
By now we were getting to be expert on the subway and the kids were enjoying playing a fun hand slap game called "cowboy" and we enjoyed watching them get along so well together.
Our first stop that day was to try and go see the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Wall Street. Sam decided that he wanted STOCKS for his souvenir (such a smart kid!). At our subway stop as we came up the stairs we noticed we were right at Trinity Church. This would usually mean nothing to us except the fact that over the months leading up to our trip we'd become huge fans of Lin Manuel Miranda's Broadway show, "Hamilton" and the line from the show, "She's buried in Trinity Church near you...." made us take an immediate detour to go find the grave of Alexander Hamilton.
I looked it up on my phone to see what we were looking for and while there were more than one courtyard with gravestones, we did find it and the kids thought it was TOO TOO cool!
We did then see the NYSE and Wall Street. We walked through Tiffany & Co and dreamed.
We decided to hit the Brooklyn Bridge and Grimaldi's pizza for lunch--it was incredible! Grandma McKneely has always been fascinated with bridges so he was really happy to see that. And the pizza did not disappoint!
Then we hit Little Italy and Chinatown. The girls all got purses from this one place that sells knock off designer purses. There was even this back room that some people went back and shopped in all secret hush hush. The kids enjoyed real gelato on the side of the street. We Kaitlyn and Matthew got baseball hats as well!
We needed a rest so we stopped in Columbus Park. Our boys found a basketball court and a ball, and some of us watched the older people play Chinese Chess--it was cool!
The plan for dinner was to get Chinese food in Chinatown but all the places looked a bit too authentic and the place recommended to us had closed down so we started heading back to the hotel and hit Junior's Cheesecake for dinner and special birthday dessert!
We are LOVING our trip
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