NYC Mother Daughter Trip, Day 4

Wednesday was another fun-filled, beautiful day.  We started off at Best Bagel for breakfast, and I'll admit, they were really good.  We both had plain bagels with blueberry cream cheese.  Yum-o.

We took the morning to walk down to Chelsea Market which was neat to see.  It reminded me a lot of Ponce City.  It's where Food Network is headquartered, so we were hoping to see some famous chefs, but unfortunately, we didn't.  Oh well.  It was still fun to walk through all the specialty shops.

After the market, we decided to walk back on the High Line.  This gave some fabulous views of the city.

When we made it back to Times Square, we realized there was another smaller Sugar Factory.  We couldn't resist!  Lily had the same "Lollipop Passion" but I tried "Ocean Blue."  Both were still delicious.

After taking a small break at the hotel, we walked back over for Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.  It was neat to see all the patronuses on the wall.

We had to represent Ravenclaw too!

Part 1 is about 2.5 hours long.  There's a couple hours break in between, so we walked over and had dinner at Becco's which was a pretty tasty Italian meal.  Then we walked back over to the theater to enjoy Part 2 of the show.  The special effects throughout were unbelievable.  I'm so glad we were able to go see this.

NYC Mother Daughter Trip, Day 3

Tuesday morning started with a fun breakfast at Alice's Tea Cup.  We shared some Hawaiian Dream tea.  I had a couple of fantastic scones; one was mixed berry with clotted cream while the other was a savory ham and cheese one with butter.  Lily had an omelet and potatoes.  It was all delicious.

After breakfast we walked over to the American Museum of Natural History.  This has been one of my favorite museums in the world for a long time.  I was so excited to get back and introduce this to Lily!  The dinosaur exhibits is my absolute favorite part.

There were lots of taxidermy exhibits all throughout which were so well done and showed off so many different animals.  Lily took approximately a bajillion photos (okay, fine, it was 215) of all the exhibits, but I only put a few of them in here. 

This was a fun exhibit as Polynesian music was playing, and there were all sorts of fun things to see.  We loved seeing the Easter Island statue like from the movie Night at the Museum.

Other fun exhibit pieces...

The sea life exhibit was very interesting; look at this humongous whale that took up the whole room!

After spending several hours at this museum, we decided to meander through Central Park.  It was another gorgeous day, and it was so lovely to just take our time and wander.

On the flip side of Central Park was Dylan's Candy Bar.  It was awesome!!! (and incredibly bright).

We had to try their crazy milkshakes and fun drinks.  Lily's was called "The Carnival."  It was a died blue vanilla shake with cotton candy ice cream, cotton candy, rock candy, and a sour gummy rope on it.  Mine was "The Birthday Cake."  It was a birthday cake batter flavor with chocolate sauce shake with a slice of birthday cake with tons of sprinkles on top.

I loved this wall that was downstairs.  All sorts of fun candy sorted by color.

After being stuffed at Dylan's, we walked back towards Central Park where we took a horse-drawn carriage ride through the park.  Patrick was our driver and Lucy was our horse.  It was a relaxing and fun little ride.

At the end of the ride, we got to feed Lucy some carrots.

After the carriage ride, we walked across the street to The Plaza Hotel's food hall.  It had all sorts of cool restaurant stalls.  Unfortunately, we were still stuffed from Dylan's so we didn't eat anything.

We walked back towards the hotel, but we stopped at some shops in Rockefeller Plaza on the way.  First up was American Girl.  It was huge!

After that we stopped in the Lego Store because that's always fun.

The last store was FAO Schwartz because it's an iconic store in NYC.

The Big piano!

We went back to the hotel to freshen up, and then we walked over to see Wicked.  This is such an amazing show!  It was awesome to be back on Broadway and seeing these incredible performers.  Lily loved this show and has said it was her favorite part of the trip.

Such a fantastic day!