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... Wall Drug, South Dakota). In Oregon, we saw the largest wooden airplane ever built (The Spruce Goose), and wondered if it could outrun the 2nd largest statue of a roadrunner in the country (Paisano Pete, Fort Stockton, Texas). We stood on the highest observation deck in the world (110 stories up with a glass bottom, World Financial Center, Shanghai), in the world’s largest public square (Tiananmen) and under the largest sitting Buddha statue (Hong Kong ...

... Jewish holidays were during the week this year, the kids would actually only miss about 6 days of school if we went away for the whole month. & so our trip plan began. We started looking into airfare first. It cost about $1,600 direct flight & about $1,000 with a stop-over in Spain, so we figured for a family of 5, better to save the money (I'd rather spend it in Israel). So during busy tax season, had to find time to make flight ...

After spending four exciting months in South America, I finally returned home yesterday. It was nice to be back and see some familiar faces (and get some home cooking). It actually felt like a vacation at home. Lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you look at it), I am leaving in a few days to spend the rest of my sabbatical in south east asia.

... cities within Brooklyn and loving it more with each day that passes. My new best friend, Holden (the dog) has been my walking buddy- although after the first 5-mile walk he was a bit reluctant the next day... We are starting to know more about each other's nuances; I'm trying to train him to stay on my right when we walk and not to pull (overall he really does listen). However, I've grown wise to his tricks... like how he pretends as if he is giving you ...

... metmuseum.org/special/superh eroes/index.asp . By the time I got out of the Met, I was ready to collapse from exhaustion. My legs and feet were hurting from all the walking, and my brain was going to explode from all the art that I took in (I could stare at paintings all day, but my brain can only contemplate so much when I'm going at what feels like 50 mph). @_@ My only reprieve though was sitting in the subway because we headed to Little ...

... so intimidating and I was worried about being ripped off so I pussied out of it! Instead I had Italian cream and cakes and coffee in Little Italy then walked "Barefoot in the Park", Washington Square Park that is, just like they did in the movie of the same name, nearly got frostbite on my toes! Finally it was a long but great walk over to the Lower East Side to see the old site where the worlds greatest rock club CBGB´s once was! It closed down in August last year and ...

... model of Liberty. Kaisha and Kaleb have never been very good with mime type artists dressed up so they were a little uneasy. K even started to whimper. We did eventually manage to settle them down and got our picture taken with a Living Statue of Liberty. Liberty even let K hold her torch which he was not happy about given back as he liked it. At the ferry terminal I had to queue in the heat for the tickets. It was dripping off of me in a constant stream. There were ...

... a half ago I went to get breakfast and opened the freezer to find... Shrek waffles!!! SHREK WAFFLES!!! Yes, I'm very easily amused. I love Shrek and can't wait to get to Universal. As much as I love Disney, especially Epcot, it's Universal that seems like a second home to us. I know those parks inside and out and love them just as much. I really can't wait! And yes, the waffles were delicious! Another thing that ate up some of our ...

... also hard to pick Disney restaurants due to the fact that we really want to eat at places that are uniquely Disney. Sure there are lots of great restaurants in the World Showcase, but living in New York City we have hundreds of every kind of ethnic restaurant imaginable. The restaurants in the World Showcase just aren't anything new or unique to us, so we like to stick to more "Disney"-themed restaurants. This year the ADR's we ...

... cocktail bar, hidden above a Korean restaurant. The sort of place you see in Sex and The City, but could never find without a local (rather like when we visited the now-famous APT in the Meat Packing district several years ago with our friend Gus, it was so cool then that even he wasn't sure we were in the right apartment block when we rang the bell!). After some alcoholic refreshments and hearing all about Mark's plans to resign from his job the following day so they can ...