Our final days were spent w/my sister in the city. I was really worried about the city noises keeping Cristiana up, but she was a champ, slept right through them and even feel asleep on the subway on our way back from the zoo. We had a great time visiting the Central Park Zoo (didn't get many pictures, since my sister brought her camera but left the battery at home). The landscaping is great and the kids zoo is very cute (little hideouts and cubbyholes to take pictures in and even some animals to feed). After Cristiana's nap that day which began in the subway, don't understand how she falls asleep and stays asleep with the loud sounds of being underground in the subways, but you drop a pin at home and she's up, we headed to Times Square, mostly to visit the huge Toys R Us they have. Cristiana had the opportunity to pet one of the police horses that were hanging out in Times Square, she was VERY excited about this. Then she saw it! THE BIG TOYS R US with the HUGE Toy Story 3 display (which we plan on taking her since she loves Toy Story, especially Buzz). Inside this store, they have a really cool ferris wheel, each car is themed as a specific toy, like one car is made out of Legos, another one is the little red coupe all kids love, there's a barbie convertible, and few others. Cristiana rode with Papi on Scooby's Mystery Machine. Papi said she had a great time, but the ride was rather long and was ready to get off when her ride was over. We explored the store and she LOVED every min. of it, from playing with the puppets (it was very funny) to playing with the HUGE Thomas Train track (we literally had to peel her away from that), to visiting the Babie section which is inside a 2 story live sized barbie house. She did not want to leave the store!
Here's 2 video's of her feeding a cow and enjoying the penguins @ the Central Park Zoo, make sure to pause the music at the bottom of the blog before playing the videos.