New York Trip - Day 3
Thursday was a busy day - we started out with breakfast at Juniors again:
That hot chocolate was quite needed to warm us up for the American Museum of Natural History.
(Yes, that museum.) I took about a hillion-jillion pictures there, so you might want to go to the Family Photo Album to see a bunch if you've never been. We saw about a third of what there was to see. There were animals both current and extinct:
Artifacts beautiful and appalling:
The tribal, the scientific:
Displays minuscule and gargantuan:
We wandered and explored until about 1:30, then we needed lunch. A hot dog cart outside provided regional fare - a hot dog and a pretzel. We went across the street to Central Park in search of Alice. It was a grey day and getting colder, but the park was beautiful. We saw a wild turkey along the way - probably fleeing to Canada to escape Thanksgiving:
Several of the streets and paths were closed due to planting and prep for the Macy's parade, so it took us a while to get to the other side of the park. But we were rewarded with some beautiful sights:
And then we found Alice. It's a beutiful sculpture that children are invited to climb and explore. So we did:
That put us pretty near the end of the day, so we cabbed it back to midtown to warm up in our hotel before dinner. We ate at Gallagher's Steak House which was delicious:
This was another split-up point for us. I dropped Miguel and MIL off to see the preview for Shrek the Musical, then I hoofed it over to see Equus, starring Vernon Dursley, Captain Janeway, and Harry Potter. Before you ask, yes, he went the full monty, and no, I was not close enough to answer specific questions. I find it somewhat disturbing that you even want to ask them, frankly. The play was riveting, as always, and Radcliffe delivered big time. Mark my words, that kid's gonna go places. You know, if he ever get's tired of sitting on his pile of money. I even hung out to try and get an autograph for Miguel, but a few people beat me to it:
There were fences, photos, yelling, mounted police on both sides of the street: it was madness. He came out and did a few autographs then split. No go. I hung around after the crowd dispersed trying to get Kate Mulgrew's autograph, but that was a failure as well - a stage hand told me she snuck out a back way to avoid the crowds.
So I went back to the hotel to find Miguel having a picnic for his toys:
Awwwww.