If you’ve been following me on Twitter this week, you know my kids and I did our version of the Griswolds go to NYC.

We had loud behaviour.

We had lewd behaviour.

We had fighting, feuding, farting and freaking right out.

And that was just in the driveway.

We forgot a watch at Liberty Island Security, a sweater in a Macy’s changeroom, and for the large part, our manners while dining in public.

We coined new phrases “Hey Mom I gotta take a New Jersey”, learned to translate (when they say it will feed 2-4 they actually mean 8-10), and agreed with hotel clerks that we must be missing the snow.

Personally I was slightly disappointed to discover that there aren’t actually gravy dispensers on every corner, but pleased to discover that it is possible to find a deli sandwich as big as your head.

My kids told me I was boring. I told them they were annoying. We all at one point used the words “stupid”, “get lost” and “never again”.

In other words, the perfect Family Vacation.

Which I’m now going to recover from (and tell my version of), during my BlackBerry Diaries book tour, which kicks off on Tuesday in Boston, at the Cambridgeside Galleria Mall. (Did I mention you could win one of TEN BlackBerrys from RIM? You can Twitter from your next family vacation “live” too!)

Maybe I’ll be able to find a Baked Beans dispenser…

And, if you had any random learnings, or questions from your kids this week you’d like to share, please do via a comment on the blog.