Church in the city

We hustled the kids out very fast this morning in an effort to get to church on time.  We had struggles with the subway this morning due to closures on the weekend.  It was challenging.  But we continue to follow Dave all over the place and we always see interesting parts of the city.  Adelaide is becoming very good at figuring out the subway. 

This morning we worshiped at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, the fourth largest church in the world. It was a very beautiful and large church with the largest rose window in the United States.  Lots of worship traditions which were new to the kids and it is interesting to watch them figure it all out.  Today the kids learned about incense.  I guess none of them have ever seen or smelled it before, but they were very confused.  Alastair kept asking Dave, "What is the smoky stuff that smells?" 

Mass was a little longer than the McLains are accustomed to so we followed the fancy phone to Crepes on Columbus and the phone was spot on.  We had a really fabulous brunch as a family and we all agreed we ordered well.  I had a crepe with roasted turkey, goat cheese, and ratatouille.  It helped to explain my meal to the kids by referencing the kids movie of the same name.  I was only able to convince Alastair to try it.  Delicious.

We walked all over the place and took a peek at Radio City Music Hall.  To do list item for the next time; Addie wants to see the Rockettes.  We visited Rockefeller Center and peeked through the windows of the Today Show (no Matt Lauer sightings). We window shopped and discussed all that we were not interested in buying.  Holly cow, there is an awful lot of stuff I have no interest in owning.

We took the kids to FAO Schwartz by Rockefeller.  Is this a new location? Neither Dave or I remember the store looking like this and didn't think it was as good as we remember as kids.  Regardless, the kids had fun looking around.

We made a pass through the Plaza and even stopped into the Eloise store just for fun.  For some reason Dave and I have a much better memory for the Eloise books than the kids do.  Who have we been reading that book to all these years?

We returned to Jersey City early enough to have ice cream for dinner (not kidding).  Thanks for the good times NYC.  We are out of here in the morning.

Jll