Before I begin I would like to extend my sincerest apologies. I know that this blog is but a babe, and for me to miss a day so soon is not proper blogging behavior, but I digress.
Yesterday was quite a day. In the morning, we took my sister to the airport. She's going to Israel for 3 weeks, which is pretty intense. Anyways, we get to the airport, and she gets inline to talk to a security officer. And she starts talking to the lady. And she's talking, and she's talking, and she's talking. And everyone else has already gone through but she's still talking to the lady. And my sister hands her her cell phone (we got her an israeli one so she could use it there) and the lady walks away with it! So my sister is just standing there without her phone, when the lady comes back and hands her cell phone back, but says that she cannot have the charger because they have to X-Ray it. Well, my family has to leave because we can't stay there forever, but my sister's charger is still somewhere with a bomb squad. (Don't worry, she gets it back, it was just stressful)
My family and I go into the City (NYC) and... well. I don't know where you live, but if you've never gone to NYC let me explain how it works getting in. When you're coming from New Jersey, which for my family is a smart way of getting into Manhattan, you've really only got two options: The Lincoln Tunnel, and the George Washington Bridge. (Another small digression. I have a feeling that someone didn't like Abe Lincoln very much, or at least like George Washington more, because they sent Lincoln to "Davey Jones Locker" and gave Georgy the prestige of being visible.) Anyways, we turned the radio on to 1010 winns to listen to the traffic. We were just coming to the fork in the road where we had to decide, and the traffic man had not gotten to either the Lincoln or the GWB yet so we just choose the bridge becuase we had to make up our minds. Literally, as we made the decision the man says "And if you're heading into the city you'll want to take the Lincoln Tunnel. Expect 30 Minute Delays on the Bridge..." Do you know that feeling when you know you're approaching something terrible, but you can't turn around. That's the feeling we had.
Ok. So we get into the city. And I <3 NY. The sights, the sounds, everything is pretty crazy awesome. So we park the car go for a little walk and suddenly the heavens open up and dump a whole sh*** load of water on our heads. So my mom and I weih 30 pounds more, so we run into a museum, the American Museum of Natural History to be Exact.
I give this museum a 4/10. For starters it's impossible to find the general admissions counter. Once you get there and you pay whatever you want (it's a suggested price so it doesn't matter. ie: we paid a buck when the suggested price said we should pay 20), you of course ask for a map. Well you gotta go someplace else for the map. And once you get there, you need to go to the bathroom. So you ask this security guard and he sends you down the hall. When you get there, there's no bathroom, so you ask another security guard and they send you back the way you came.
Okay, all bathroomed out, you decide "I want to see the Hall of Human Origins." So get ready to walk about 1/4 of a mile to a place with some bones and crap. If you plan on going to this exhibit do not bring young children, because the wax models are VERY anatomically correct. The amount of grown adults (male and female ) I head utter the words "nice tits," or "nice rack," is tremendous.
So you may be asking, where would I take young kids in this museum? Answer: To the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Not the Musuem of Natural History, because it will scar your children for the rest of their lives. For example, does your child like deer? Great. You can take them to see a dead stuffed one in a class cage next to a plastic christmas tree. Does your kid always play with trains? Great. You can take him to see practically the same train he plays with, in a glass case, where he can't play with it. Want to see a movie? Be prepared to pay as much as 36 dollars for 2 adults.
One thing led to another (and anyways this post is getting a little lengthy) and my family came home. We beat the traffic coming back on the GWB, and listented to the Mets beat the Giants
5-0. All in all it was an INTERESTING day...
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