Photos from our trip to New York

We made it back late last night. Today we started getting back into our routine of school. Hunter had a math test and we covered poetry, grammar, science, history, phonics and reading. He also had his science lab this afternoon.

We finally got a new camera before our trip. I knew mine was old when Terry's cell phone had a camera with a high megapixel than my digital camera. Part of my job as Director of Electronic Functionality is to get the software installed on my computer so we can get the pics off to upload to the blog. Thus the delay in getting these posted.

By the end of our stay Hunter had no trouble hailing a taxi! He loved the taxi rides. We had great weather! It was sad to come back to Texas where is was 86 degrees at 9:00pm. The museums were great.

The Metro. Museum of Art was so nice to walk thru, but a lot of their exhibits were not behind glass. At age 39 I had a hard time not touching (oooh...pretty rock!) - you can only imagine what Hunter went through. LOL. He did great. We got to see the world's oldest extant piano (see photo below). When we told Terry about it later, he asked what year it was from. Unfortunately, Hunter and I are both global learners - we don't dwell on details. So neither of us read the plaque to find out. Can't you just be happy knowing it is the world's oldest? Don't ask me what extant is either. But the piano was beautiful (and not behind any glass).

At the Museum of Natural History we got to see a lot of artifacts from the Aztecs and Mayans. We have studied these cultures in history already this year. Here is Hunter sitting in front of an Aztec sundial. We also got our picture taken where it looks like we were running from a dinosaur - we all looked very scared and the museum made $25.

 We went ice skating at Rockefeller Center. I lit up the rink with my impressive skating ability. I only knocked five people over trying to stay up. Hunter kept complaining that the ice wasn't very good so it was hard to skate on. That and the fact that he has only been skating three times! By the end of the outing, he was doing a great job skating. I accidentally got someone with my skate blades when I was changing into my shoes - he's okay though - only needed about 5 stitches. I'm sure he is already off his crutches. (just kidding)

The Statue of Libery was amazing. Just amazing.