Saturday, July 21st, we rode with the school to NYC on buses. We stopped for lunch at Mars 2112. It was lots of fun. At one point the staff at the restaurant gathers and the song “Dance to the Music” comes on and they all start doing a dance, waving their arms in the air, etc. Well, not to be outdone, a group of our kids got up and stood next to them and join in! It was awesome!
When we left all the kids were gone with their chaperones except for these 2 little guys who are 11-12 years old and are just standing there. (Jack and I would adopt them in a nano-second) We asked some questions and found out they were alone, had lost their chaperones, and wanted to go to see “The Hershey’s Store” and “M&M World”. I can’t really tell you their names or much about them because they are students here, but as Jack says, “If you get them both soaking wet and put rocks in their pockets they still wouldn’t weigh more than 100 lbs combined!” Just wanted you to have a visual of Jack and me with these two boys. So we headed down to the stores and oh my goodness did they have fun. Keep in mind they don’t show much emotion and don’t really like to get their pictures taken and they are very quiet. So we snapped a picture of a giant Hershey syrup bank and humongous 5 lb. Hershey Bar. Then we headed across the street to “M&M Store”, it was 2 stories high! The boys looked around and were amazed that M&M’s come in ALL those colors! You name the color, they had it! Just when they thought they’d seen it all they went around the corner and saw MORE to which they said “ooooooooooooooohhhh”. So cute! There was a machine that would imprint a M&M character on a penny so they did that. Afterwards, one of them said he didn’t like it that they ruined a perfectly good penny! Again, cute! They didn’t buy anything at all, which was amazing to me, since we are talking about CHOCOLATE!! It was time, so we headed up the street to the theatre to see “Mama Mia”. And, Boy, were the chaperones VERY relieved and happy to see the boys show up and even happier that they had been with us.
