Dominican Republic - Day 6 (New York)

We had to be to the airport by 1am for our red eye flight. We lucked out bc both of us couples ended up on a row of the airplane with an extra seat. So I was able to lay down for the majority of the flight and got little bit of sleep. The one positive about having to take the red eye was that we got to spend the day in New York while we waiting for our flight at 9pm. We left as much luggage as we could at the airport and headed out. We got a quick breakfast then headed to the subway. Wow. The subway system is amazing! We hopped on and got off as close to the World Trade Center as we could. Michael and Natalie had already been to the museum so they went to the Brooklyn bridge while we went through the museum. We were speechless as we walked through it reading all the stories and seeing all the items they salvaged. It was very touching and I won't ever forget how it felt to walk through those halls and stairs where so much tragedy and devastation took place. We wished we had more time to spend there, but after 2 hrs we were completely exhausted and very hungry. Josh's back hurt SO bad that we had to leave to eat lunch and rest a little bit. I'm sure we will visit the museum a few more times throughout our lives and we will learn more each time we go. 

We walked to a little pizza joint which ended up being really good NY pizza. There is so much to see in NY we kind of had to pick and choose what we wanted to do. So we walked to where we could see the Brooklyn bridge and then the Statue of Liberty. We didn't have time to take the ferry out to the island, but it was still cool to see it from afar. We then headed to Times Square. We walked around a bit and found a little shop to buy the kids some souvenirs. It was pouring rain and we were completely exhausted so we decided it was time to head back to the airport. We ate dinner there and waited for our flight. It was another late flight and we didn't land until 1:30am (3:30 NY time). What a trip!!! 

Dominican Republic - Day 5 (Ocean World's Pics)

Dominican Republic - Day 5 (Phone Pics)

Dominican Republic - Day 5 (Ocean's World)

We woke up early again and headed out to Ocean's World. It's like Sea World, but bigger and has the animals in more of their natural habitat. It was amazing and we loved every minute of it. We got there as it opened so there were hardly any people. We were the first ones in the with the birds and the workers spent extra time with us and let us hold the birds, which they are only supposed to do if we buy their pictures. It was cool to hold the different birds. The dolphins were everywhere and I spent a lot of time watching them. Of course my camera died after the first hour and I was heart broken that the battery I charged last night ended up not charging. So I had to take a bunch of pics on my phone and will post those next. We loved watching all the shows and seeing all the animals. We laid out on the beach there and really enjoyed every minute of it. We ended up paying to do the Sea Lion encounter, which was really cool. We spent about 45 min playing and interacting with a couple sea lions. They don't let you take pics so we ended up having to buy theirs (see the following posts). We also go to snorkel in their fish tank. I had a migraine headache all day so I didn't snorkel, which meant I could take some pictures of the other 3. We found out in the afternoon that we weren't going to make it on tomorrow's flight, which meant we needed to fly out at 3:30am!  We were really bummed to lose a day of our trip, but that's what happens when you fly stand by! Once we got back to our resort we took a dip in the pool and got ready for the evening. We spent some time on the beach taking pics, ate at the Mexican restaurant again, and enjoyed the evening while we packed up.