Wednesday, August 14, 2013

NYC for Uncle Dan's Graduation

Hello everyone!  Here are some pictures from my SECOND trip to Manhattan, not too bad for only being 2 years old.  It was a fun trip, a major plus was that I could actually walk this time.  Hope everyone is well and enjoy the pictures!
 
At the airport awaiting an exciting plane ride. I am fully prepared with my airplane roller-bag suitcase.

Looking for frogs with Daddy. He claimed these little things called tadpoles were going to turn in to frogs. It's moments like these that make me not take him seriously sometimes.

The house of Gustav Stickley, maker of Stickley furniture and all things craftsman. Also a place where nothing may be touched, so... not all that exciting.

In line waiting to get into Uncle Dan's graduation ceremony. Graduations are surprisingly popular events!

Those people in the purple gowns are called "graduates." Apparently they have gone to school for 10 lifetimes, from my perspective at least.

There goes Uncle Dan. This is the one moment I was given the green light to indulge in a favorite activity of mine: yelling and screaming.

Sitting at Uncle Dan's graduation. Seeing how these things are hours long, I took daddy on a nice little intermission to Central Park, which worked out well for all involved.



I had a lot of quality Grandpa shoulder time on this trip. Representin' for our Mariners!

The new World Trade Center, a good site to see.

Just two cool dudes, hangin' out on the pier, that's all. Me and Grandpa Stewart, just being cool, yeea.

This is the Rockefeller Estate, and it might as well have been Gustav's place because you couldn't touch a thing. 

Dude, check out the guys shooting guns! This is also the New Windsor Cantonment where George Washington and the Continental Army wintered for the final time before the end of the revolutionary war, but dude - check out the guys shooting guns!

This is one of the two fountains marking the locations of the old World Trade Center buildings.

Back at Grandma and Grandpa Stewarts' place, shoveling dirt and digging up a rhubarb plant to take home to our garden. Just look at the exemplary foot - to - shovel form. 

Posing next to our trophy, which is now thriving in our garden by the way.

With three dogs and a cat at home, I am already a professional pet petter.