Intrepid Museum 2016

We thought it would be a good idea to put the kids in the car and sit in hours of traffic in New York to see the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. These are the results minus the behind-the-scenes struggles and tears.

Even though we live 70 miles from the Intrepid, it took us over 2 hours to get here.

Happy now that she's outside

The Intrepid!

We asked the kids whether they wanted to go on the big ship or the submarine first and they were both in agreement that they wanted to see the submarine. James's reasoning was that he's been on a boat before but never a submarine. We soon discovered Miranda was "too short" to go on the submarine. James was delighted that he was big enough to do something she couldn't. Kevin took her to the Intrepid Museum, while James and I waited to go in The Growler submarine. And waited. And waited.

Thinking she's going on the submarine... she's not.

James and me inside the submarine

Navigation Room

Sonar Room

Going though the air (water?) locks. 

James with a torpedo

After the submarine, James and I went to meet Kevin and Miranda in the museum. We started on the third floor- the deck- with all the aircraft.

Top deck- third floor of Intrepid

Being a helicopter

We went down to the second floor where there were many warplanes and war videos with bomb special effects... and I booked him through there to get him to the kids section.

 

Some super cool navigation device

But I couldn't resist a Cuban-Missile-Crisis selfie. Who can?

The best part of the museum if you're a parent is the Exploreum Hall, where kids can interact with things and run around like wild monkeys.

We took her to a museum of technological wonders- she's excited to touch a feather!

Flying the jet

Shipmates

Playing with pretend sonar

She has an important call from the CIA

Don't worry, they're on their way!

Endeavoring to build her own rocket

This whole time the temperature was in the 90s. We thought we'd be mostly inside in a nice chilly museum, but a lot of it was outside and the museum itself was not that cool temperature-wise. So I decided we had to get ice cream.

Eating Ample Hill ice cream at Gotham Market

I got the dark chocolate and it was the best ice cream I've ever had.

Part of the saga of getting to the museum that I left out in the beginning was the struggle of finding parking. We had gotten everyone out of the car when we realized we were illegally parked, so rather than put the kids back in- there might have been a mutiny!-- I took them to the nearest park while Kevin parked the car.

Prequel: De Witt Clinton Park fun