Daniel had to go into the city for work yesterday and decided to have dinner with one of his old high school buddies that lives in the area. I still have a round trip on my train pass so I decided to join them. I had a little time before Daniel was done with work so one more museum couldn't hurt... and to change it up with an educational museum.
The American Museum of Natural History!
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| Everyone loves the museum |
With my trusty student id I was able to get in for $14, it is odd like the Met you just make a donation and it can be any amount, but they really want it to be one of their per prescribed amounts. Either way I plan to get as much millage out of that student idea as I can until I feel bad about it.
As you might have guessed there was a huge dinosaur exhibit and who doesn't love large toothy skeletons, I know I do.
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| Stegosaurs makes a great picture |
So my camera battery died half way through the museum which left me taking pictures with my phone which hopefully explains the quality of the next picture
So hard to fit a brontosaurus in one picture.
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| Armadill-oh! |
There was also an interesting exhibit oh man's link to monkey's. Sure it was also about the evolution of man and the migration of the species.. but you know man = monkey cousin.
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| Not every picture I took is bones... just most |
Also fun was the planet exhibit, in particular the scale model of the planets. One exhibit kept scaling the model up or down by the power of 10 for a comparison of our size in the universe. What I learned from this is we are very small and what we are made of is even smaller.
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| Pictured Sun, Saturn, Jupiter and... moons? |
I could not agree more American Museum of Natural History.
Daniel and I had some time to kill before his friend was off work so we enjoyed the scenes of Washington Square park, near NYU, for a few hours. It was the perfect day for it sunny but not too warm, at least not in the shade.
The park is really pretty and full of activity. We watch the dogs come and go from the dog park behind us. Enjoyed the jazz band playing at the end of the garden. I spent time judging some Greenwich fashion, apparently I have turned into an old prude. Oh and there were some "bros" practicing some intense hacky sack moves. Two things 1) I never new anyone practiced hacky sack 2) I never knew you could spend an hour and half practicing hacky sack moves.
Daniel caught up on some reading and I got some sketching practice in. It might have been the most enjoyable afternoon we have spent in the city.
We had dinner at a burger bar in the Village, they were great: cash only, half a dozen things on the menu, and cheap(ish) beer. We stayed a little later in the city (and drank a little more) than we meant to but had a great time catching up.
Poor Daniel caught the 7:20 am train in and then we took the 10:30pm train back and he had to catch the same train this morning.
Summary
Cost:
Transportation (train+ Subway ) $21.00
Museum $14.00
Park $ 0
Total $35.00
Time: 7 hours
Average : $5.00 /hr entertainment
Perks:
I learned about dinosaurs, did you know some of their relatives still live today like bunnies?
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