{"id":1753,"date":"2016-05-22T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2016-06-08T02:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T02:06:41","slug":"the-big-pear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/2016\/05\/22\/the-big-pear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Pear"},"content":{"rendered":"

I already titled a post The Big Apple<\/a> so I used a relative of the apple for this post. \u00a0Today the target was the Empire State Building. \u00a0 The rain was gone and the forecast was clear skies and sunny! \u00a0We walked down to the subway station, got our tickets (again, one at a time) and hopped on for a ride to 33rd street station. \u00a0For a Sunday morning I guess I was expecting the subway to not be very busy…I guessed wrong.
\n\"Pretty<\/a><\/p>\n

When we walked up out of the station we found ourselves in Greeley Square. \u00a0Steph spent most of her childhood growing up in Greeley Colorado which is the butt (I did that on purpose) of many jokes about cow manure stench. \u00a0I had no idea that Mr Greeley had also been famous in New York, but sure enough, he was!<\/p>\n

We make our way to the ESB (Empire State Building) and the kids are excited because this is where Buddy the Elf’s dad, Walter Hobbs, works. \u00a0So they have to do a round in the revolving door like Buddy did. \u00a0We ride up the elevator to the 80th floor and get out to check out some of the views and displays. \u00a0Poor Brielle just wasn’t getting into the history and displays so her and I passed the time by making\u00a0up games at the windows like “count the billboards” and “count the taxis.” \u00a0Then we went up to the balcony on the 86th floor. \u00a0The views were great and it was fun to get the birds eye view of the city.
\n\"High\"<\/a>