An Unplanned Stop at St Patrick's Cathedral

As we were departing Rockefeller Center with the kids this past weekend, we were walking toward Sak's on Fifth Avenue.  When we got to Fifth Avenue I immediately noticed St Patrick's Cathedral and was reminded that we didn't get to show the inside of this cathedral to the kids when we were here at Christmastime.  

We had hoped to show the kids this landmark cathedral when we were here Christmas week but it was locked up since it was nighttime.  On this warm morning, however, the cathedral was open to the public so we walked across the street to St Patrick's.

Before entering the cathedral, we quickly went over a few rules and customs so nobody would make a fool of themselves in this famous landmark. 

It would have been nice to do a tour of the cathedral but, unfortunately, we didn't have time for that.  I'm not sure the two 12 year olds would have appreciated the significance of what they were seeing in a tour anyway.

St Patrick's Cathedral was perhaps Sheila's mom's second favorite cathedral closely behind Notre Dame in Paris.  We had just buried Sheila's mom at sea only two weeks ago so Sheila lit a candle in her mom's name and said a quick prayer for her....

After this quick and unplanned visit to St Patrick's Cathedral, we made our way back to Madison Avenue and then down to Grand Central for the train ride back to Long Island (with Kenzie's new giant Build-A-Bear stuffed animal on Kenzie's shoulders)...

As always, we would have preferred to do a lot more while we were in Manhattan but we only had a few hours to spare this visit.