Natalie and I Go East

I tried uploading some of our pictures from our journey to CT but Blogger keeps giving me an error message. I'll try posting again tomorrow, and if that doesn't work I'll post them when we get home. We are having a lot of fun. On Friday night Amy, Mikaya, Taylor and Michelle came to the airport to pick us up. We stopped at Michelle's house to see Varick. He's gotten a lot bigger since we last saw him!
Then Saturday we waited for Gavin to get home from golfing to go into the city. We went to Ground Zero, the memorial they have, and then looked at the Statue of Liberty from the shore. It was raining cats and dogs so we didn't want to actually go out there that day.
Since Gavin's work is crazy enough to keep him from doing stuff during the week (I can relate with Kent's schedule), we drove to PA. We went to Hershey's Chocolate World. I took a couple of pictures outside, and 2 of Soren getting into drinks, but that's it. It was a bit of a disappointment. But at least I can say I've been there now. From there we drove through Lancaster, PA and saw several Amish people walking to church, and some driving their horse drawn carriages in the same roads as the cars. There was horse poop everywhere, and we kept driving through it. It was impossible to avoid. It was a very peaceful and beautiful community. We continued through to the City of Brotherly Love- Philadelphia, PA. We went to Independence Hall and then to see the Liberty Bell. We couldn't do the tour, but I got a book about it. We walked for quite a while, hearing the kids tell us how hungry they were, getting cat calls from various men and saw a lot of people wearing rainbows. (You could say that it was a very different feeling from the community we had just left...) We finally made our way back to the car and went to Pat's. They have been featured on the Food Network for having the best Philly Cheese Steaks. I got one, and it was pretty good. We drove home from there, and everyone crashed.
Today we went to the Bronx Zoo. It's HUGE! Having only been to the Hogle and Phoenix Zoos I can say that it's significantly bigger. They had a better variety than we can have in Phx... obviously the animals are smart enough to not like the heat.
I love how green everything is. It makes me want to move out of the desert even more whenever I leave it to see the lush green in other parts of the US. It's rained every single day... another HUGE plus for me. I love the rain. For the most part it's not been driving rains, but good drizzles. Yay!
I'm not sure of everything else we're going to do, but I know that we're going to a beach day on Thursday for Mikaya's class party. Then on Friday my brother-in-law Michael is going to take Natalie and I on a tour of the city. I'm going to be prepared with snacks for my daughter who won't eat much of anything at any given meal, but is starving throughout the day.
Amy and Gavin have been gracious hosts, and the kids are all getting along well. Soren is even warming up to me. He makes me miss my little Drew Dog.
All right. That's it for now. I'll try updating with photos later.