NYC Day 3: Museums

This morning, we headed to the Museum of Modern Art for their Family Gallery Talks program where they break into group of kids by ages and take them through the museum and look at a few pieces with a theme in mind. We really liked that it would only be a small group of kids since the four year olds were put into their own group together, which they called the Tours for Fours.

Upon arrival, they had paper and map pencils out for the kids as we waited until the program started at 10am. Andrew started drawing a couple of pictures. Then, it was time to be put into our groups. We were put into Ms. Lynn's group and off we went.

The theme for today's discussion was "Places". So, we saw four different pieces about that. Ms. Lynn asked the kids questions. Andrew was a little shy about answering but managed to answer a couple.

On our way to one piece, Ms. Lynn stopped by one exhibit with silver foiled objects. She said they were pieces of candy and we were allowed to take one. Of course, Andrew was into that.

At the last piece, we ended with drawing our most favorite place. Andrew drew a fire station, Daddy drew UT, and I drew my godparents' house in Somerset. After we were done, Andrew said he wanted to go back to the museum so he could get more candy. Not quite the point, but at least he had fun.

After MOMA, we walked to a restaurant nearby where we were meeting up with Max, who is one of my friends from high school and also went to UT with us. It was nice to catch up and see him again. Time flew and James needed to leave to go meet Janine, Mike, and Thomas at Penn Station. He took Andrew with him while I stayed back to spend more time with Max. We ended up going to a restaurant with a bar and had some coffee and talked some more.

After meeting up at the train station, they went to find something to eat and chose a Korean restaurant. After, I met up with him at the NBA store where Thomas wanted to pick up a few things.

Next, we hopped on the subway headed to the American Museum of Natural History (yes, the same one in Night at the Museum). We roamed the halls and admired all the artifacts and exhibits. Andrew liked the dinosaurs of course.

Then, we took the subway again towards Penn Station. We grabbed a bite to eat at a Japanese restaurant and then saw the Gonzales family off. It was so sweet that they made the trip in to spend some time with us.

We had a great day seeing family and friends and in between, getting to see art and natural history!!