NYC-Part 6-End of trip

Tuesday was our last full day in NY. We were hoping to make it a short and easy day, having seen most of what we had planned by then.
We met our friend Dan who lives there with his family. It was fun to meet his cute, adorable daughter and just hang out at FAO Schwartz and later on we also had lunch together. He served his mission in Romania and he also went to BYU.

I loved this little nursery at FAO

 Lego stuff. I got pictures of the Lego Star Wars because this is Dacian's favorite game on the Wii right now.

And check out the price of the Barbie foosball table. I wonder which celebrities bought that. :)

 And here's the famous piano that was in the movie "Big" with Tom Hanks and I am sure in other movies as well.

Quickly after we hurried to the MET. 

 How beautiful is this painting? It was one of my favorites.

Oana, my cousin gave us free tickets and we were excited to go see a little bit of the museum. We got there rather late around 2pm and everyone probably can figure that is a HUGE museum and a day or a week may not be enough. We went to the Impressionist gallery and saw Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Matisse, Rodin, Degas and many others. 

The knights, swords and the Chinese and Japanese collections were also pretty cool. We also liked all the Samurai stuff. 

I loved the museum and stayed there until close at 5pm. 

We wanted to go home at this point but alas, the procrastinators we are we hadn't gotten anyone any presents in our rush from here to there so we had to go after that. And another fault of mine or ours is the inability to decide on something to buy quickly. We went to Times Square to see if the ambulant vendors were still out there with the cheaper t-shirts, etc but we only found one and all the stuff he had was for adults. So we went into the Times Square Toys R Us which really is no ordinary toy store. They have a lot of characters build out of legos and just their selection of everything is amazing. The Barbies were awesome. I wanted to get Lavi the Statue of Liberty Barbie but it was way too expensive and Lavi is not yet playing Barbies.
As much as I hurried we didn't make it home too early so our last day with our good friends was rather short. Of course they waited for us with another great dinner and bought what we heard was an amazing cheesecake from Junior's. It was pretty much as good as everyone said it would be and more. So fluffy, I think it was made with ricotta instead of the usual cream cheese. It was very rich so I couldn't even finish a whole piece. I fully recommend Junior's cheesecake or just the restaurant which is in Times Square if you ever are in NYC.
Again, we want to thank our friends for how much they spoiled us, their hospitality and love, and for how well our kids were taken care of by my parents. When I got home (Shane went on to DC and Boston-lucky him) the kids didn't want my parents to leave. It was so sweet. It was apparent they did many fun things and were happy and to be honest I didn't have a doubt.