Friday March 30

 They started the morning at the famous Rocky steps.

They did some more walking around Philly.
Then they went to the constitution center.

Then for lunch, they went to the Reading Market.

They said it was 81 different market/restaurants.....just nothing like you have seen before.

They then rode the bus to New York.

They took some time to walk around Time Square.

Their hotel is right there!

In fact, it is part if the building that Stephen Colbert's show is in.

Dad thought that was pretty cool.

They took the group and rode on a sky tram thing, that went over the bridge.

Gave the kids a chance to see the skyline.

Then they were given a crash course on the use of the subway.

I guess tomorrow the kids have some free time where they will be let loose.

That terrifies me!!!!

After that, they visited a 3 story tall candy store.

That sounded cool.

At that point, some kids went back to the hotel.

But Madi and Dad went to a place for dinner called 'Star Dust'.

All the waiters and employees were either former, current, or going to be Broadway performers.

They said that after taking your order, your waiter might get up on stage a perform.

Lots of singing and dancing :)

They had a late night tonight and still have to be up pretty early tomorrow.

Hopefully they get some sleep there in Time Square!

The hotel did give them earplugs :)

Back here at home we had a pretty fun day.

First I had a 5 mile run.

Then I finished with the tree pruning.

The kids helped pick up sticks.

Then we went to see the movie 'Sherlock Gnomes'.

It was pretty cute.

I ran to the store real quick with Porter and took him back to the bowling ally where he had spotted a Pac-Man machine.

We didn't have any coins the other day when we went, so we made a quick stop to try it out :)

This evening, Cassi went babysitting for the Halls and the Morgans and Edwards came over to play some games.

Tomorrow is General Conference and I am looking forward to that.

Also the Nielsen's are having an Easter egg hunt at their house, so that should be fun.