Day 5 - New york Battery park, SOHO, NOHO

We gave Julian a Jif peanut butter sandwich for lunch - Jif being the brand of Peanut butter :) - and headed to Battery park to give his little legs a stretch.

 Julian playing with the squirrels.

 Julian walking the pram with Dad.

From Battery park we headed uptown to Ground Zero (along with everyone else) which is only a short walk.

 Ground zero with the new Freedom tower.  We weren't organised enough to get passes to the memorial.

We did go to Century 21 department store next to ground zero hunting for bargins.  Unfortunately I didn't have any luck but there was heaps of clothing for Julian so I stocked up, including buying 2 pairs of shoes at 1/2 price.

From there we decided to walk uptown and then Julian fell asleep in the pram, so we kept on walking.  Did I say it was about 90% humidity and 28degC?

 No idea what this building was but it was pretty!

 Streetscape looking along a cross street from Broadway SOHO (SOHO - South of Houston (St); NOHO - North of Houston).

Lunch was at a small cafe in SOHO which had excellent panini.  No photos as Julian woke soon after we arrived and I forgot about taking any.

The sidewalks were packed in SOHO and then it thinned out heading north.  We did manage some more shopping:
Madewell - trendy and expensive store, more like a boutique but is a smaller brand offshoot of a larger store (J. Crew), didn't buy anything;
Ann Taylor LOFT - (Ali's recommendation) maybe like Sussan crossed with Sportscraft, bought plenty including a "Final sale"pair of jeans down from $70 to $5!  Love the sales!


Then we walked the final bit home via the Food Emporium, our local grocery store where we bought Honey Maid graham crackers, Kashi granola and rainbow Goldfish.  They also had puffed corn, which I had to buy because Julian was missing them in his snack cup (which is currently loaded with Cheerios and goldfish).  Then we came home for a beer on the deck out back.

For dinner we went to Chipotle Mexican Grill for burritos (recommended by Ilana and just around the corner from us).  They were good but I forgot the camera, so no pictures.  It was just dripping with rain as we left home and it started to bucket down soon after we started eating.  Thankfully it had stopped by the time we headed home.

Tomorrow we are thinking of having another go at finding the MOMA.