Well, you actually don't have to spend a load of cash - or any at all - to keep the young'uns active and occupied. There are a ton of ways to do with kids in New York for free that'll wear them out enough to conk out when you get back to your hotel room - and buy you an hour or two to work in a tipple at the bar, finally.
There is just a beautiful layer of snow on the ground deep in the woods. And it is still and cold. I'm starting early, climbing a mountain called Wright Peak. That means moving through near darkness in the hour before sunrise. There's just enough light in the woods. I can see, but there's no color. It's just like I'm walking through this black and white world of snow and charcoal lines of the hemlock trees, the boughs already really heavy with snow.