Something to Think About

I needed a little bit of inspiration on this cold, wet Sunday so I'm copying a list I stole from Mommy Poppins. It's basically a life list for kids living in New York City which means there are WAY too many fun things on here which no sane person could ever accomplish. But nevertheless, it's good incentive for me to stay active and plan more days out. I need things like this to help me focus sometimes and remind me of what we live with and take for granted all too often. So here it is, the biggest, baddest list for our city kids:

Life List for NYC Kids (or 100 things to do with your kids before they grow up):Visit the NY Hall of Science
Go on an audition just for the heck of it
Wave to the cameras on The Today Show
Have tea at the Plaza
Ride the Shark Boat
Climb the Statue of Liberty
Ride the row boats in Central Park
Go to Dylan's Candy Bar
Go to Economy Candy
Get locked up at the Police Museum
Go kayaking on the hudson
Take the ferry to Sandy Hook beach
Ride a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park
Have dim sum in Brooklyn's Chinatown
Go hiking in the Staten Island Greenbelt
See the new Liberty Science Center
Go fishing in the East River
Go on a fishing boat from Sheepshead Bay
See the money train at the Transit Museum
Go to the Brooklyn Children's Museum
Get a taste of country life at the Queens Farm Museum
Ride on a tug boat
Sail on the historic schooner Pioneer
Sail in the hudson
Take a helicopter ride
ride the Cyclone before it's gone
Grab the ring at the Coney Island carousel
Spend my wad at Dave and Buster's Arcade
march in the Mermaid Parade
Go to a Brooklyn Cyclone's game
Fulfill a child's wish through operation santa claus
See the ballet
Watch a dress rehearsal of an opera at the Met
Sleep over at the Bronx Zoo
See the unicorns at the Cloisters
Go horseback riding
Go sledding in Central Park
Cross-country ski down a city street
Bike across the Brooklyn Bridge and get ice cream at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
Take the Roosevelt Island Tram
See the piano dancers at FAO
Visit the Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Children's Museum of the Arts
Sketch at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Stargaze at the Hayden Planetarium
See the rest of the AMNH after the dinosaurs and mammals
Visit the top of the Empire State Building
Take an art class at the MoMA
Chinese Scholar's Garden in Staten Island
Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Holiday Train Show at NY Botanical Garden
Check out the Queens Zoo
See the wandering wallabies at the Prospect Park Zoo
Watch a movie under the stars
Madame Tussauds
Try all the flavors at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
Look up relatives in Ellis Island
Visit new waterside playground in Chelsea
Get colonial at the Fraunces Tavern Museum
Do a medieval workshop at Cathedral of St John the Divine
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum
See the rollerbladers perform in Central Park (just West of the Sheep's Meadow)
Fly a kite on the Sheep Meadow
See Shakespeare in the Park
Going biking on Governor's Island
Find the secret Downing Street Playground in the Village
Explore Battery Park City Parks from the South Cove to Penny Park
Ride the Staten Island Ferry
Have knishes and egg creams at Yonah Schimmel's
See the giant buddha in the Mahayana temple
The Skyscraper Museum
Play vintage video games at The Museum of Moving Image
The Museum of the American Indian
Buy comic books at Forbidden Planet
Free concert in Madison Square Park and Get lunch at the Shake Shack
Buy flowers from the flower district
Buy wholesale toys in the wholesale district (27th and 6th)
Swing Clubs at the Chelsea Piers Driving Range
Climb the rock wall on Broadway
Visit the Science Barge
Visit the Intrepid
Test out the Whispering Gallery at Grand Central
Coney Island Arcade
Cook our own food in a Korean restaurant
Sail boats on the boat pond in Central park
Billy Johnson Rustic Playground in Central Park
Explore Belvedere Castle
Medieval Festival in Fort Tryon Park
Ride the carousel in Bryant park
See the to scale panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum of Art
Get Egyptian at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
See the new Greeks and Romans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Go ice skating in Prospect Park
Riverbank State Park carousel
See the holiday lights in Dyker Heights
Take a trapeze lesson
See the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade balloons get inflated
Watch the circus elephants march into town
Swim in the floating barge pool
P.S. I think I've done about 7 of these already (pre-Elisa though) so maybe I'm on the right track. Will keep you posted on the progress.