We had a great laid back summer and this Labor Day we decided to say good-bye to it with a bang!  Our weekend started with a visit to the New York air show.  I’ve never been to one and had no idea what to expect but I gotta say that seeing various planes perform cool maneuvers was pretty awesome!

And the next day we headed over across the bridge to the city (after dropping of Millie at her Grandparents) for the last summer hurrah – a weekend in the city.  Whenever we stay in the city overnight we always choose to stay downtown (Gramercy was a high up north as we ever got!) and this time was no exception – we stayed in Tribeca at Roxy Tribeca – formally Tribeca Grand.  Victor and I stayed there in the past and loved the location and the hotel and the girls ended up loving it as well.  When I asked which hotel they liked better – this one or the one we stayed during our Memorial Day weekend in the city (Andaz) – they replied that they liked this one better because the lobby was very unusual:)

And since we were tourists in the city we decided to do one of the most tourist thing we could think about – take an open top bus tour around the island!  And I have to say that it was SO MUCH FUN!  It was a very interesting (and usual) way for us to see the city we know and love so much- definitely recommend it to tourists and New Yorkers alike!

After doing almost a complete loop on the bus we got off at Union Square, had lunch at Friends of a Farmer (yummy!) and made our way back to Tribeca stopping for pictures, selfies and checking out scenery in East Village, ChinaTown and Soho:

We rested up at the hotel before dinner and then I convinced the girls and Victor to walk over to the water for a sunset.  The light was so pretty and I really wanted to photograph them but Mia told me that ‘the worst thing is when you Mom is a photographer and you are really good at modeling but don’t like to do it’. And just to make sure she got her point across she also told me ‘not to turn everything into a photoshoot’ so with all of that I kind of had to put my camera down.  And instead I took a few casual pictures of the girls enjoying Hudson River Park:

We went to our old favorite ‘Landmarc’ for dinner where Alexa asked the waiter which kids-menu item he would recommend – pigs in the blanket or the chicken fingers:)

And at night Alexa brought out her heavy-duty dictionary, which she packed up for the one night stay in a hotel in case ‘she needed to look things up’:)

The next day after brunch at Bubby’s we headed over to MoMA walking through Time Square on the way there.  Mia and Alexa have been born in NYC and we live only 20 miles away yet that was the very first time we walked through Time Square with them!  We definitely took our theme of being tourists in the city quite literally:)

The girls loved MoMA and were super excited to see Andy Worhal’s work as well as a few others they studies in school.

And then it was time to head back to Brooklyn to pick up Millie (who had a great time relaxing with her grandparents), drive back home, pick out outfits and get ready for the First Day of School!