The Burnett Bunch: NYC Day 2

First stop in Times Square was Toys 'R Us. Now this wasn't your regular ole toy store. We are talking 4 floors of any and everything a kid could possibly want or imagine. And don't forget that huge indoor ferris wheel right when you walk through the front doors. And of yes, of course, we went there just to ride the ferris wheel.

Every car on the ferris wheel was themed by a different toy company or toy. We got seated in a car that had Jeffrey (the Toys R Us giraffe) on one side and ET on the other. Cal was so excited and she doesn't even really know who either of them are.

There was Wonka Land on the 2nd floor where you could get any Wonka candy you wanted.

Also, on the third floor was all of the action figures and other boy toys....

The 4th floor was home to Candy Land (which was themed after the game).

After our time of preteding to be kids again, we headed off to eat dinner at Bubba Gump shrimp. This was the second Bubba Gump's we've ever eaten at. The first was in New Orleans.

These are some of our friends from the seminary that met us for dinner.

The Burnett's chillin' at dinner. Yes, Calloway was sleepy and a little irritable. But boy was she a trooper. She went with us the whole week and did a great job keeping up! I was really proud of how well she behaved despite a grueling schedule.

During dinner this girl came over and was taking pictures over our table of the building next door. She finally turned to us and said, "You know what's going on over there, right?" And of course we had been oblivious to any activity that direction. She said, "Well in the blue shirt is Mario Lopez and he just got done interviewing Taylor Lautner in the red striped shirt." OMG! I got so excited and grabbed the camera and this is the best shot I could get before they both left and closed the curtains. So, that's as close to fame as it gets for me.

After dinner we headed down the street towards our next destination but I got hung up when this man walked past us and stopped. He had a rainbow macaw on this steel bar across his back, a green parrot on his shoulder bag, and you can't see it in this picture, but he also had a snake wrapped around his right arm, from his wrist to his elbow.....I knew New York had some interesting people but this guy definitely made my top 10 list.

We were on our way to M&M World when he caught us off guard. Again, another store that was just absolutely huge and outrageous. 3 floors!!! of M&M stuff. Who could believe it!

Here are Cal and I with one of the many huge M&M guys they had. I hope this somewhat puts into perspective how huge everything was in that store.

A wall full of any color peanut M&M's you might want. Mark hit up the peanut butter M&M wall and Calloway chose to get some M&M's from the plain wall. They made this family quite happy!

Then we headed across the street to the Hershey's store...can't get enough chocolate, I guess! Mark was in heaven with all of their Reese's paraphanelia.

We rode the subway back to Grand Central and I wanted to go in the main corrider to see it in all of its glory. Let me just say that these pictures don't do it justice!