{"id":5621,"date":"2019-05-11T17:31:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2019-05-13T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T10:29:10","slug":"nyc-there-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/5621\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC &#8211; There and Back Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed with a little trip to CT and NYC this week!   We drove down to Connecticut with our dear Miss Deb and stayed over at a hotel in Preston, just outside the towers of Mordor, I mean, Foxwoods.  Then we left early for a trip into NYC for the day!  I had never been, so it was fun to hit some sights like Grand Central Station and Central Park and the Morgan Museum. <\/p>\n<p>Train trips are funny.  A bunch of adults get quietly into a cramped space and sit silently next to strangers.  Until&#8230;the 8 year old arrives!  Alice had strangers chatting with her and playing guessing games. The guy who guessed &#8220;cigarettes&#8221; got off at his stop feeling pretty stoked, and our ukulele musician was happy to play &#8220;eet, eet, eet, epples and baneenees&#8221; with Alice and let her practice her two chords that she knows.  The people were delightful.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF2737.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5630\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF2737-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF2737\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Morgan museum was great.  We were especially in love with the hobbit culinary meal and, or course, the J.R.R. Tolkein exhibit.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF2744.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5632\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF2744-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF2744\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/menu.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5640\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/menu-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"menu\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF2739.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF2739-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF2739\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF2747.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5634\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF2747-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF2747\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Checking out the secret hidden stairwell behind the hinged bookcase was a particular thrill!  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stair.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5659\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stair-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"stair\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/museum.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5660\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/museum-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"museum\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Central park was great &#8211; mostly we enjoyed the playground, Balto, and the many doggies!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alicemom.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5623\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alicemom-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"alicemom\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/balto1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5627\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/balto1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"balto1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alicesmile1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5625\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alicesmile1-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"alicesmile1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/baltoall3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5629\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/baltoall3-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"baltoall3\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And staying at a hotel with a pool was a brilliant choice, Alice did her first independent swim here!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pool.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5637\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pool-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"pool\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now I mustache you&#8230;where will these three adventures go next?  \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mustacheyou.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mustacheyou-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"mustacheyou\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed with a little trip to CT and NYC this week! We drove down to Connecticut with our dear Miss Deb and stayed over at a hotel in Preston, just outside the towers of Mordor, I mean, Foxwoods. Then we left early for a trip into NYC for the day! I had never been, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}