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Jenna and I took a whirlwind trip to New York last weekend. We were supposed to leave Thursday night, but a radar went down in Chicago -- so we left at 5 AM on Friday morning.




After the taxi ride, we went bowling with people I work with in New York. I am big enough to admit that she actually had a higher score than I did the first game. And for her 3rd game, she bowled a 100 which is really good (she bowled two strikes in that game).




On Friday evening, I surprised her with tickets to The Lion King Broadway musical and imagine my surprise when our seats turned out to be front row, right on the aisle! The play opens with the title song, and you have all of these "animals" that come walking down the aisle and up on the stage right past you. When the song ended, Jenna closed her mouth (her jaw had hit the floor when the song started) and said "This is AWESOME!"

After getting back to the hotel after midnight (she was hungry, so we walked from 40th street to 60th to find an open McDonald's at midnight) we crashed.

Saturday started at 10 AM with Jenna putting down 3 bowls of cereal and 6 strips of bacon + a donut. Then we headed off to "the Museum" -- the American Museum of Natural History (or as most kids know it -- Night at the Museum from the movie).

Of course we had to find her favorite characters -- "Rex" the T-rex who chases his own rib, and the talking head who wants "gum gum".

After finding all the neat stuff in the museum, we headed off across Central Park to find the Balto statue. On our way we stopped at the Carousel -- this thing is fast! I had troubles taking a non-blurry picture of Jenna flying past.

After a couple of wrong turns, a water, and a popsicle we found the statue.

Now it was time to go to Toys R US to check out all the fun things. Jenna was most excited by the Barbie store as you can imagine. We finally decided to call it a night and head back to the hotel to get ready for the 6 AM flight back to Iowa.



Still, that 6 AM flight gave Jenna enough time to have yet another bowl of cereal to snack on.