Day 16; Tuesday, the 15th day of July, 2014

Well, we are no longer following the stupid bus! We are also down to nine people in the motorhome; auntie and our family.

This morning we sent Grandpa, Raconteur and Rough home. We will miss them!

We will also miss the many friends we made who were on the bus tour.

By the way, that tour was amazing. If you are going on a tour anytime soon, you definitely want to check out http://alanmckaytours.com/.

Enough advertising.

After we sent off the bus, we headed to into New York’s transportation system to spend another full day in the city.

There is so much walking requisite to visiting these big cities!

We, after finally – and at last successfully – navigating the subways, walked through Times Square. The output of media screaming for attention was a bit overwhelming. I swear, every inch of surface area that could (and some that couldn’t) had been turned into a TV!

We saw some skyscrapers again today.

We walked along 5^th Avenue. We saw a coat with a price tag of over four thousand dollars.

We went into the American Girl store. That was pretty fun…I think. Actually, I must confess that I was tired, so I sat down to rest my feet. While I was sitting, I happened to notice a book. You can probably guess the rest. I don’t have a very good memory of what the store was like. But I could tell you all about the book!

Next we went into a store that was totally awesome. I had the time of my life, and I think just about everyone did, including the adults.

FAO Schwartz.

The biggest toy store in the U.S.

They had just about everything you could wish for.

We spent several hours in there (Part of the reason was because while we were in there, my parents, and all other cell phone owners, received a severe weather alert on their phone and soon, it was pouring buckets outside.)

I got to play the ‘big piano’, which is a keyboard type thing that you play with your feet.

It was amazing. We had a blast.

Afterwards we went through Central Park on our way to the subway station.

Everyone but myself, Emergent and Employed went home. We hung out in the station for a bit. Then we ate dinner in Times Square.

Then we went to the best part of the day.

We saw The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway.

It was a rich repast of music, drama, and theater. This was so exciting for me. I mean seriously, sitting in Broadway, about to watch a show I have been dying to see. I was bouncing up and down on my seat. The show took FOREVER to start!!!! I think it was definitely my favorite (just so you know, way more than one sight has been my favorite). It was amazing. It was…

well…  

Words fail me.

…literally.

The End.