We wake up and find Daddy in Abuela’s sala, watching TV and scribbling something in that notebook he’s always writing in. He explains that Mommy is visiting with her goddaughter, Arlene, one of the many cousins who hugged and kissed us at the wedding reception last Saturday.
He lets us play games on his computer while he showers and gets dressed. He then says, “Raise your hand if you want to go to the Bronx Zoo.”
“Yay! Meeee!” we both say, raising our hands high.
Getting dressed is quick this time; we know the faster we do it the faster we go to the zoo!
We walk past the little playground, through the echoing tunnel with the animal paintings on the walls, to the zoo. We see monkeys, snakes, bison, baboons, peacocks, bears, giraffes and gorillas.
We never get to see the lions or tigers, because Daddy begins rushing us at a certain point. We have to get picked up by Mommy, who will drive us all to see someone named Judy.
All we know is that the promise of seeing our cousin Hannah is wrapped up somewhere in all of this.
When Mommy comes to pick us up we’re tired from all the walking we did at the zoo and fall fast asleep in the back of the rental car.
Daddy and Mommy wake us up and we’re at a house we’ve never seen before. Cool, because it’s high up and you can see boats out the big front windows. Uncle Mike shows us the marks where the seagulls drop the clams from high up to break and eat them. Daddy sits on one side of Judy and Mommy sits on the other, talking with her. She looks at us and smiles once in a while.
At the end, Mommy calls us to give Judy a hug good-bye, and we do.
Then it’s back in the car and dinner with Cousin Hannah at her house – pizza and spaghetti, and throwing balls and a Frisbee in the front yard, then back. We try to play with as many of Hannah’s toys as we can until it’s time to leave again.
One more set of cousins to see – Andrew and Matthew. “Is it far to Andrew’s house?” we ask.
“No,” says Daddy, “in fact it’s right on our way back to Abuela’s house.”
Pretty soon we’re going up the elevator and then we’re gunning through Andrew’s toys with him, while baby Matthew runs around, crazy.
And that’s how we spent our last day in New York.
Are you kidding me!?
ReplyDeleteNo edits or anything? This is fabulous!
"We walk past the little playground, through the echoing tunnel with the animal paintings on the walls, to the zoo. We see monkeys, snakes, bison, baboons, peacocks, bears, giraffes and gorillas".
Thanks, Tara. So glad you liked it. :o)
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