Central Park Zoo

I can cross this one off the bucket list.  Finally went to The Central Park Zoo.  My sister came into town with one of my nephews.  (She took each boy on his own weekend trip.) We decided to play tourist and do something we have never done.

 Here we are at our awesome parking spot across the street from the entrance.  I never have this kind of luck.  Not only did we not have to pay for parking (even though hubby scored me an excellent coupon) but we were right across the street!

Here we are deciding where to go first.

Sea Lions rock!

Chilling with the Sea Lions

This was an excellent photo op in the shade on this incredibly hot day.

The Sea Lions performed for us.

They are just so gosh darn cute.

Wonderful clock on the way to the children's zoo.  It moves when the hour chimes.

After the Zoo we headed to www.dylanscandybar.com for a snack.

So much candy!  How to choose?

Posing with the candy.

We had a great day.  We saw the feeding of the penguins and the feeding of the Sea Lions.  We saw a red panda, monkeys, a polar bear (very sad, the other polar bear died a couple of months ago.  Hopefully they will be able to get a new polar bear soon so the one that is left is not lonely.) lemurs, parrots, and assorted other rain forest animals. The snow leopard was hiding somewhere cool so we did not get to see him.

Our original plan included Top of the Rock and Serendipity for Frozen Hot Chocolate but it was close to 100 degrees out and the wait at Serendipity was an hour and a half.  So Dylan's was a great option.  We spent an hour just wandering around the 3 floors of candy looking at stuff.  Yes, you read that correctly-3 floors.  My sister picked up a couple of packs of candy cigarettes.  Who else is old enough to remember them?  My kids were horrified that cigarettes were a candy.  Mortified that my sister and I used to love to blow out the white powder so that it would look like we were really smoking.  The 70's were a fun time.  You know those cigarette executives sat around trying to figure out how to hook the kids on smoking.


Hopefully we will get together with my sister and her family soon.

Summer!

Go Team!  This is Mister B's hands making the letters of our team

Getting ready.

Little Miss M doing the Freestyle.

Swimmers Take Your Mark!

Little Miss M doing the Breast Stroke.  She came in 1st.  Notice her competitors are nowhere near.

Diving in for the Breast Stroke.

Basking in her Victory Glow!

Summer is underway and we are loving it.  Summer swim team started at the end of June.  We are at the pool Mon-Fri for swim practice at 9am.   The kids had the second meet of the season today.  Both kids swam hard and had a great time.

Summer school is progressing slowly.  It is hard to get a good groove on after being out in the sun for most of the day.  We have settled into a 3 days a week routine.  Swim team only goes to the end of July so the academics will get stepped up in August.  It will be easier on all of us to do school work before heading out to the pool.