New York Summer Vacation

We spent a week in New York for our summer vacation. My parents are serving a Temple mission in Palmyra New York so we took the kids back to see the pageant and all the church history sites. We started our trip with a few days in New York City. We had a great time and ran our legs off for one week.

We flew out of Salt Lake City on the red eye! It was a long night but most of the kids did sleep a little.

The place we had arranged to pick us up was a little confused and sent too small a car at first and the only other option to get 7 of us to our hotel was a limo. The kids thought this was great and loved it!

Central Park

The Natural History Museum

We met up with Jon's niece Niki and her two kids and they spent the afternoon with us.

The kids had to walk all over the museum to find this statue from the movie Night at the Museum!

We went over to Brooklyn to have dinner with Niki and Rick at a pizza place that was so good! Then we decided to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Jack loved the subways. He usually didn't get a seat all to himself, but this was really late one night on the way back to our hotel.

We got pretty tired of McDonalds for breakfast. We ate here every morning!

Statue of Liberty

Ellis Island

This picture does not show how hard it is raining. We got done with Ellis Island and it started pouring down rain. We stopped and bought a few more umbrellas for us, although we were already drenched!

Empire State Building

M & M World

Times Square at Night

Our hotel was right on Times Square so each night we had fun walking back to the hotel and seeing all the people still out.

We were able to get tickets to Mary Poppins and we all loved it. It was amazing what they do with the stage for the performances.

We left New York City and drove to Niagra Falls. We spent one night in Canada and met up with my family the next day. Mom and Dad Smith were even able to come to Canada to go to the Falls with us.

The Sacred Grove

The cousins had a great time switching cars each place we went so they could all ride together.

Brianna, Heidi & Jon were able to go to the Palmyra Temple and do baptisms. I stayed out with the younger kids but did go in for a few minutes and watched the girls get baptized.

The Smith Home

Another one of the Smith's Homes

Peter Whitmer Home

Brianna checking out one of the out houses!

Hill Cumorah Pageant

This is how we all felt after a week of running. We had a great trip and were exhausted getting on the plane to go home. It was fun to spend some time with my family and get to see where Grandma & Grandpa Smith are living and serving right now.