NYC AMNH, Molyvos and Fuji Sushi

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Yesterday we took all three girls to the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. What an amazing place. So much to explore!! We bought a Family membership so you can expect to be hearing a lot more about this wonderful museum. If you have a monster mobile as we do you want to enter on 81st street. That is the stroller entrance. I have no clue how you would maneuver a buggy up those massive stairs in front by Central park!

Overall the museum is very kid friendly, lots of changing areas and the Discovery room which is hands on. It is a bit hard to get around some of the exhibits on a crowded Sunday with the double stroller. That is to be expected it any older building though. They need a few more highchairs in the food court. The food in the food court was quite good though. Not terribly over priced either. For the 5 of us it was $27. This was including our 10 percent member discount. The babies shared a slice of pizza, Alexei has a bacon cheese burger, I had a veggie burger and Brandon had Chili. We all shared 2 desserts, which we only ate 1 cupcake. A quite yummy cupcake at that! A surprisingly good Museum lunch

MOLYVOS
871 7th Ave.
After Alexei's Mom picked her up we headed to Molyvos for our dinner reservation (I had asked for a table for four 2 highchairs please!). I had read about this great Greek restaurant in a Fodor's book. Every time we move I bu a travel book of the area we are moving to so I can get a grasp of our new surroundings. I like to be able to absorb everything about where we live. Brandon and I LOVE Greek food so we had been looking forward to it all day.
When we arrived Lilly had fallen asleep. Probably because she had been running the massive halls of the Museum all day! Anyway we wanted to leave her in the stroller to sleep and we draped a coat over her to let her rest. This kid was OUT! She had been moved from the car to the stroller and up the stairs and was not waking up! The hostess helped Brandon move the stroller up the stairs and we put the stroller next to the table in the corner. The hostess said it was fine. I took Rory to the bathroom to change her and Brandon got settled.

The bathroom we soon learned had no changing area. I took some Kleenex boxes off a display table and changed her there. What is a Mommy to do. I wasn't changing her on the floor! When we got back to the table Brandon had a strange look on his face. Apparently while we were in the restroom the manager had visited our table. He had asked that we remove the stroller. Brandon had informed him that our daughter was sleeping in the stroller and that it had already been arranged with the hostess. Then he apparently huffed at him and said well at least you have to remove these coats from the stroller. To which Brandon replied "I will not remove them they are covering her." It is very hard to offend my husband. It seems to me that the manager was very strongly against us having our children or our stroller in his restaurant. We sat there and mulled this over for a few more minutes with not one waiter coming to our table. Finally Brandon went to tell the very nice hostess that we would be dining elsewhere. All this time Lilly slept and Rory never made a peep. She just smiled and drank from her sippy cup. The hostess told us to not mind him. But it was undeniable that we felt very unwelcome at Molyvos.
Our children eat everywhere and are very well behaved. It is sad to me that there are people out there that are allowed to manage a restaurant that behave this way.

FUJI SUSHI
56th street between 7th and Broadway
After leaving Molyvos and the unfriendly welcome there we were a little leery and a lot hungry. We packed up Rory and strolled back out onto the streets of NYC to find nourishment.
After trying an Italian place that was booked, and us with no reservations. I wandered into Fuji Sushi. I left Brandon outside with the girls while I went in to ask 2 questions. Do you have highchairs (yes, of course!) and can we leave our sleeping daughter in the stroller and put it next to us (yes that is fine). They also answered with a big smile. They were very welcoming so I went back out to get Brandon.
The sushi was great. We had a fabulous meal and they fawned over Rory the entire time. Lilly did eventually wake up and the girls ate 2 bowls of rice and some skewered Chicken. It really was a great experience. We even took a take out menu so we can go back and take food to go if we don't have time to sit next time were in the city. Wonderful people and food. Sometimes you end up somewhere other than where you expect but in the end it really does turn out for the best!