How much sight-seeing and walking can be done in three days?  Alot!  So much that our feet felt like they were on fire when we limply crawled into bed each night.  Neither one of our girls had ever been to Manhattan, and both of them desperately (as in please, pretty please with sugar on top kind of begging) wanted to go.  Apparently, Nickelodeon, Disney and all other media geared to young girls, make it very clear that NYC is the place to be.  Truth be told, it is. 

 

My eight year old says she’d like us to move there, now.  I explained how our lovely home that we live in, would buy the equivalent of a small walk-in closet in the city.  Still not willing to give up on city life, she asked if she could go to college there.  Sure, my only question is whether she’d mind if I come too?  Sign me up, any major…I’m in.

Btw – if any of you have a trip planned to NYC in the immediate future, could you be so kind as to please pick me up one of those cheaply made, but oh-so special (if you’re an 8 year old) snow globes that they sell only at the TOP of the Empire State Building?  It seems that if you buy one of them in the gift shop on the 86^th floor…and then you drop it (and forget to mention that little tidbit of a problem to anyone), by the time you get all the way back down to the first floor (which involves waiting in a loooong line, being crammed into two elevators that are kind of stuffy, and then snaking your way through a maze of ropes), said snow globe turns into a puddle of broken dreams and Manhattan becomes a city of ruin!

This is the beginning of a new tradition – we made a promise to take annual girls trips together.  Moms, daughters, friends…it’s a win-win!

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