New York

 Not ready to go home yet after Florida, we decided to spend 2 nights in New York city.    Unfortunately the weather forecast was calling for temperatures as low as 4 degrees.  This was not compatible with our Caribbean wardrobe!  Luckily for us our Orlando apartment was right next to an outlet mall so we spent an hour combing through the Old Navy discount section and found some amazing deals!  The kids bought sweaters for $5 and I bought a scarf for $2!  It was even colder than we imagined though.  We had to wear 3 layers under the sweaters (basically any long sleeved tops we had, plus a tshirt) and still felt the chill!

 Times Square adventure followed by dinner at Red Lobster! 

We had planned on going to a toy store but both of New York's toy stores are closed down!  Both FAO Schwartz and the Toys R Us with the Ferris wheel are gone :(

 It is amazing how many New York city blocks the kids can walk if you stop at the M&M store first!

 I think this is the Plaza Hotel, right?

 The afternoon before the line up for the Empire State building was 2 hours long.  We went at 8am the next day and breezed right up :)

 Rockefeller ice rink

 St Patrick's cathedral on Easter Sunday.  Not the best weekend to show up in New York.  Lots of things were closed.  I wanted to take the girls to the American Girl Cafe but it was closed.

PS I am SO COLD in this picture!

 But there was an Easter bonnet celebration with people people some real effort in!

 Next up was the American Natural History museum. 

 A castle in Central Park

 Central park.  As you can see it warmed up during the day and we were able to take a layer or two off.

 John Lennon memorial in Central park

 Dinner in Benni Hanna.  We got so warm in here we got down to our base layers!

Ella made friends with a girls sitting beside us named Janai.  She was so friendly and outgoing but the rest of her fmaily were stone cold, bordering on rude.  But at least the kids enjoyed themselves because the wait for our meal was a lifetime!

 I don't know why we decided to take the subway back.  Seemed like a good idea?  It took more than an hour when an Uber would take 20 minutes.  The girls did have fun spotting the rats on the platform though :)  Totally different experience from our MTR!

 Stock Exchange

 Our ability to destroy a hotel room is unmatched!

 There was some concern, but the Easter bunny DID manage to find us Sunday morning:)

New York is the only place I will eat bagels and cream cheese.  They know how to do it.

Orlando

 Ron and Suds got off the ship first thing in teh am.  They rented a car and drove over an hour away to watch the Blue Jays play a game during Spring training camp.

 Too bad it got rained out :)

Then they drove over and hour back Orlando and returned the rental car.  What a bummer.

Meanwhile the rest of us got into a limo that took us to our 4 bedroom apartment.  Obviously the kids loved it!

We stopped at Walmart for supplies.  I had to take a picture.  I bought all these groceries for just over $100USD.  I am sure it cost half what I would have paid in HK.  I could not believe how cheap it was.  To put this in perspective, I just bought $45USD worth of groceries in Hong Kong and it fit in my purse, with everything I normally carry in my purse still inside.


The rest of our day was spent waiting for our room to be ready.  They said it would not be long but it took nearly 5 hours!

Needless to say I DO NOT recommend staying at Lake Buena Vista Resort Village and Spa!