And we're off! Here is the pics of our New York leg of the trip. There are so many more pictures and fun stuff to show when we return, but here is a taste of what we were up to.

The bus picked us up at 4am and had a starry sky on the top. The kids were excited and a bit scared of it all. Max and Sabine snoozed all the way to Lodi, Sabine woke up when we got to Papa and Momo's house and said "this is fun!"

Wake those kids up! They have a five hour plane trip to go on!

Everyone was plugged in! The family had a few competitive plane trivia games in which Ian and Josh mostly dominated. The plane had a TV for each passenger where one could watch TV, play games, or rent a movie!
Max and Sabine were tickled that they got to sleep together in their own big bed! Here they are, watching a movie and trying to go to sleep on New York time. Just wait until Ireland hits us! Whoa, that's a tough adjustment!

The next day we visited the Natural Scinece museum and boy was it impressive! We saw many dinosaur bones, as well and myriad other prehistoric animals. On this excursion were Momo, Vanya, Jim, Colleen, Josh, Emily and MaxnSabine.

Which jaw has more teeth?

a real T-Rex!!!
Sabine was set up! We laced some speakers through her new stroller and loaded Disney music on my IPOD. She was rocking out and even can be seen sleeping in this position in many photos of this trip!
Trump Tower: Can you find Josh in the crowd?
From the museum, we went to Central Park and bought hot dogs on the street (yea Max!) We walked all around the park and climbed trees and saw 200 year old bridges. We also found the tribute area of the park for john Lennon. Yoko Ono funded the development of the site which overlooks their home near where he was killed. It is a very beautiful and peaceful area.Central Park!
We went to Mars 2112 for lunch where we went on a space ship ride to Mars! Max really believed in it and thought that we went to outer space! We were served by astronauts and there were many Martians walking around, and dancing too! They have surprisingly good food on Mars...

Max likes Mars... Josh and I went out on the town in New York. We saw a show at 8pm (night night Max and Sabine!) and saw Spamalot! it was a blast, just about the funniest show we have ever seen!
We'll add some Ireland photos tomorrow! We have really been on the move and the time change sure is a challenge! We were travelling for MANY hours the past two days, but we are finally staying put for about 36 hours - whew! what a relief! Having a blast and wish eveyone was here!!!!