We took the kids to NYC yesterday. We've never been as a family because the idea of taking three small children to the city drew strikingly similar fears to being covered in honey and laid over an ant hill.

But they're old enough now that we don't have to haul around strollers and diaper bags and 400 pounds of assorted travel necessities and since we had a free Saturday and we only live a short train ride away from the city, we decided to spend the day there.

The kids tipped a street performer, stepped in vomit and enjoyed the vocal stylings of a seriously crazy woman on the subway who was singing "the greatest love of all" into a pasta spatula.  I'd say that overall, they've been properly introduced to the Big Apple.

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