NYC & Jonah's Bday

I have some great pictures from today but at this point everyone's lucky to even get the blog post because the hotel internet is really slow and I can't get it to upload pictures.. Hopefully tomorrow night I can get them added.

First and foremost today was Jonah's birthday. We drove from Boston to New York City and we had to set a new record, something that's never been done before on the trip. We sang Happy Birthday to Jonah in every state we drove through today. In order, Massachusetts, Rhode Island (this one was quick since the state is so small!), Connecticut, New Jersey and New York City. He was a good sport about it all. The Hard Rock Cafe even made him stand up on his chair in front of the entire restaurant who shouted Happy Birthday to him while he blew out his candle.

The kids loved the play, we saw the Lion King. The costumes, set construction and the performance was amazing, very detailed and incredible. After the show we went to dinner at the Hard Rock and then outside we went in search of a geo cache. Now those of you who don't know what geo caching is... well it's basically like a treasure hunt that you can do all over the world. You use coordinates and follow your GPS and then use additional clues to log your find. This is something Mr. Young has gotten into over that past few years and converted me while I was on the trip last year. There was a cache in the middle of times square, crazyness! Aiden found the cache on a Magazine Stand and we pulled out this cool little 'FOUND IT' sign, we called Mr. Gentile and my mom and they both logged into an Earth Cam that shows in Times Square and they took a picture of the group with the sign!! It's cool (I then took a picture with my camera as well since the Earth Cam was kind of far away).

All the kids (except Aiden) went with Mr. Hartinger to explore the oh so popular M&M store. Aiden, Mr. Young and myself had to take off for just one more geo-cache in Times Square area. After M&M's and caching we had our cool picture taken in the middle of Times Square.

Now we are back at the hotel crashing before our long day of NYC tomorrow.

Plan to have some of the kids write blogs tomorrow and Mr. Young has a couple of pictures and notes we are waiting to have him share with you.