New York Botanical Garden: This Time with Daddy

Our experience at the botanical garden earlier in the week was so nice, and I decided I wanted Steven to see it. We took the same Metro North Railroad from Grand Central Station. since Stevn was with us, we got some photos of me and the girls in the main lobby.

It's such an easy trip, maybe 25 minutes, and we just walk across the street to the garden. We ran out of time the last visit for Bea to complete a nature notebook in the children's garden, so that is what we did first. We started at the Children's Adventure Garden.

She was to guess which color flower she thought she would see more of in the garden, and would you believe she picked pink? Yeah, I guess that's not surprising. She only completed 2 of the 6 tasks, but it wasn't entirely her fault. It was time for lunch, actually past time for lunch, and both Steven and I were getting headaches. She did pot some wildflower seeds, and she made a pollinator puppet. She chose the butterfly out of the other options: a bumble bee or hummingbird. Again, not surprised.

Probably another reason she didn't finish her notebook was because the girls couldn't get enough of this quaint sitting area.

After lunch, we walked to the perennial garden in front of the beautiful conservatory. Again, with Steven there, we were able to get pictures.

Today was much hotter, and I was finding myself wanting to retire early, but Beatrix wanted to ride the tram to the Howell Family Garden. Steven stayed back with Charlotte since she had fallen asleep in the stroller. This time at the family garden, Beatrix planted a lemon balm plant to bring home, dug for earthworms, and water the plants. We really couldn't dawdle because we wanted to catch the 3:39 train back. We caught the next tram at the family garden entrance, and made our way back to the front where Steven would be waiting for us.

Photos of Bea in Howell Family Garden to come.

We met up with Steven, grabbed some drinks at the cafe on the way out, and waited about 10 minutes for our train.

We arrived at Grand Central, and walked down 42nd (near Times Square area) to catch the subway back to the apartment, and I probably thanked Steven a hundred times for finding a place on the Upper West Side. Thanks again, Steven!