New York Day 2

We found this great little deli that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.  Since we stayed up so long the night before, we barely made it in time for breakfast.  The forecast called for rain so we all had our jackets and rain boots. 

Beautiful flowers...

Our next stop...MACY'S..  this place was AWESOME.

We spent several hours here shopping and we found some great deals.

We also rode on a wooden escalator.

After some major shopping and walking, it was lunch time. 
On the menu for lunch was pizza. 

New York pizza is the best.  We usually have pizza more than once. 

We tried a new pizza place:  Mondello's Pizzeria.  It was great. 

I have never had "bad" pizza in NY.

Our next stop was the New York City Library.  This place was awesome.

It is more like a museum than a library.  We had to go through security and

we weren't suppose to take pictures inside.  We did use our phone to take pictures

but of course, I did not down load them.  So if you want to see Haylee reading

a book at the library, check out my pictures on Facebook.

After some quiet time at the library and some needed rest,

we headed to do some more shopping.

The next stop was the Little Miss Matched store. 

This store sells socks in a set of 3 that don't match.

I guess it's the newest fashion statement for girls. The girls decided to try and make

their own style of socks which, if chosen, could actually be made.

The next stop was the one store that the girls have been dying to go to....any guesses...

the AMERICAN GIRL store... this is another amazing store for little girls.

Haylee's purchase at the store....

Then it was off to the next stop....

Since this was the birthday day.. we had to have some cupcakes.

We found the Magnolia Bakery.  Everything looked amazing.

We got everything to go and then headed back to the hotel to have a celebration.

It was finally time to try those cupcakes..OMG... those were some of the best cupcakes we

had ever eaten.  Haylee chose the red velvet cupcake.. her words "AMAZING"

We decided to go out for a late dinner and rode the subway across town.

Wish we could buy fresh produce from a stand like this...

We had dinner at Tom's Restaurant from Seinfeld. 

Didn't notice all that trash when I took the picture.

After we ate, we headed toward Columbia University. 

We saw a fire truck returning to the station and decided to stop in.

The firemen were so nice.  The let the girls get in the fire truck and put on their heavy jacket.

Then we were off to Columbia.  Since it was dark, we couldn't see much.

Then we rode the subway back to Times Square.  Since we were in the town that never sleeps..we decided to do a little more sight seeing before heading back to the hotel. 

We went to the the Hershey's store.

The girls had fun filling the bucket with kisses but we did not purchase the $25 bucket of candy.

Then we were off to the M&M store...

We had a busy day but everyone had a great time!!!