A beautiful summer day!

After a VERY long journey from Ørholm in Denmark to our hotel in New York, we all just needed to sleep. VERY badly! Travelling 8 hours on monkey class SAS with kids to New York is something which demands a lot of patience. Poor Marie-Louise ended up being sick to her stomach from the flight which unfortunately was not that smooth. And continuing with a 'stop-go' cap driver into the city did not make her condition better. On the contrary. However, a good nights sleep has helped us all.

Being a little 'out-of-time' we woke up early this morning. VERY early. Marie-Louise as the first at 4 o'clock (waking up Tue at the same time)! Kirstine at 4.30, and Sebastian at 6, as he could smell the choko-croisants from the oven ;-) We have been lucky to find a very nice hotel, with two separate bedrooms and a kitchen-livingroom- dinningroom. We even have a washer and dryer, which came in handy after the turbulent flight.

We started the day a little after 7 (!!!) by strolling up to Central Park and the great Heckscher playground. The kids loved it.

The mom loved it too!

We went for pancakes and some omelets before heading over to the two big toy-shop goals of our trip: the FAO Schwarz and the Apple store on fifth avenue. They are lying door-to-door - so what else could we ask for!

After our visit to the Apple store - which did not result in the purchase of an iPad (it had to be reserved, which we have now tried to, but we will see if it will be available before leaving the city on Wednesday) - we looked up at some of those amazing buildings, streching up to the sky:

Having missed out on shopping in the Apple store, we went to the FAO Schwarz shop next door, which gave us other opportunities. Sebastian found a great book about Lego Star Wars, which can give him all the details from the legendary history, which his parents so far have had a hard time to remember (or frankly: made up of their own!).

The early morning made us walk back to the hotel for a siesta and a light lunch. In the afternoon we went to Times Square (less than a block away!) and contemplated the immense bombardement of information, which is served to you in this the craziest of intersections in the world.

Being on Time Square, we - of course - went to Toys'R'Us. Marie-Louise insisted on a ride in the big wheel which is in the shop itself, passing all four levels of the shop. She was a very happy girl!

From Times Square we walked to Bryant Park, where we had an ice-cream break and looked at new yorkers playing table-tennis. The weather is very nice, warm - about 30 degrees!

The last sight of the day was the Grand Central Station. Sebastian recognized the place from the Madagascar movie, and Marie-Louise was too occupied with the beautiful ceiling to look into the camera ;-)

We went next door to our hotel at a small restaurant for dinner. It was two very tired kids AND two very tired parents who stumbled into our nice hotel room at 19.30h. 5 min. later Marie-Louise was fast asleep ...