Belvedere Castle and other matters

We went to the Little gym during the week.
The kids always have such a fun time!
Baby Michelle's smiles are so sweet. What a cutie pie.
someone tried out his helmet one morning
before setting out with Grandma to visit Central Park
we came to a big lake when we got off the subway at w86th street.
that fountain over there is pretty good Liam isn't it?
and enjoyed an icecream on what was a hot day for New York City.
everything is so green now


after a while we decided we better look at the map and see where to go...
always a wise thing to do, especially in Central Park...
that must be the Great Lawn there, so we need to go a little bit south of there to find Belvedere Castle, I think
off we go
past the Delacorte Theatre
with the statues, one of Romeo and Juliet

past the bathrooms
and through the Shakespeare Garden
very pretty
and up this path

come on Grandma, you are getting a bit slow, taking all those photos
up these steps
aha here we are
what a good look out....
nearly as high as we can go
just have to go up some more little round steps...
ah, there we are
a good view of the turtle pond
looks like they have a couple of boats there
the irises looked very pretty, much like a Monet I thought
that looks like another castle over there
oh, and look there are the turtles on that rock, all out enjoying the sun....




It's nearly time to climb back down all those stairs Grandma

someone was being very funny
and enjoyed trying out the acoustics in the tunnel
and pointing out where the tiles were falling away...
then it was back to the nice shady picnic area
where we had a little swing and ate our lunch
Grandma saw this spotty bird quite close by
and very sad, time to head back to Central Park West and catch the C train home again.

Whata fun day Liam, thanks for coming with me. I haven't seen that part of Central Park before. Very interesting, and good fun! All those stairs though. Whew.

What a fun week. Let's hope Mummy and baby Michelle get lots of sleep this week. Mummy thinks baby Michelle forgot how to sleep during the day times. But she has been very snuffly, poor little bubby. Get well soon Michelle.