This morning it was raining when we got up, but we had brought our raincoats, so as soon as we had our cereal and got out clothes on we were off to the subway. We headed to the museum of natural history because I really wanted to show Beck all the BIG dinosaur bones.
Riding the subway was neat. The first station we got off at had some little bronze statues all around. I counted 56. Grama Jo only got a picture of a couple because Uncle Josh was walking pretty fast. The next station we got off at was at the museum. The walls and floor of that station had lots of animals and birds and fish everywhere. One wall had big ants walking on it.
We got to the museum right when it opened but it was still crowded. We got tickets to see the Extreme Animal exhibit and the Frog exhibit. We looked at the extreme animals and it talked alot about mammals. There were animals even Grama Jo and Uncle Josh had not heard of. Beck kept saying he wanted to see the big dinosaurs so we went to find them. He was really amazed. We had seen a T-Rex in Chicago but there were more dinosaurs here. They were so BIG. After a lot of pictures we went to the Frog exhibit. It was awesome. There were frogs from all over the world. Some were so camouflaged that we could barely see them. Uncle Josh had a good eye and helped us see one that looked like moss and one that looked like a brown leaf. Some of them were bright blue and some were yellow or orange. Those were the tiny poison frogs. By the time we walked all over that exhibit we were hungry so we went to the museum food court for lunch. They served mac and cheese and also had yummy donuts!
After lunch we went to the planetarium where we saw the planets and the sun as models. They also had a scale that you can see how much you would weight on a star. By that time Beck was tired of being inside so we left and went out to Central Park. The rain had almost stopped so we walked and walked and chased pigeons and walked.
Grama Jo had looked on the internet and found about some statues so we searched for them. First we found one of Hans Christian Anderson. He is famous for writing fairy tales. He had the book about "The Ugly Duckling" on his lap and I read all that was there. Then Grama Jo told us the story as we walked searching for the statue of Alice in Wonderland. That was really neat. Alice was sitting on a mushroom and the Mad Hatter and the hare were there with her. Next we searched for Baldo. He was a dog who saved some people in Alaska. Uncle Josh spotted him and we got to get out picture taken some more!!
We walked on down to the Central Park zoo and got to go in and see a Sea Lion show. The zoo keepers fed the sea lions fish when they performed tricks. The sea lions could stand on their front flippers and dive into the water. We also saw some penguins and puffins, a polar bear, and a lot of animals in the rainforest. That was MORE walking.
We left the park and caught the subway home. We were glad that we got the train that went straight back and we did not have to change stations because we were all tired.
No ice cream tonight. We went to Ben and Jerry's last night but it was too much of a sugar high too late (at least that is what Uncle Josh and Grama Jo said!) Maybe we'll get some more tomorrow.
One more big day in NYC and then we'll head home. Hoping the hurricane goes back into the Atlantic Ocean.
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