Yesterday in NYC

Yesterday at the Circle Line, we bought this thing called a NY CityPass. It’s $65 and it gets you admission to the Circle Line (although you have to pay a little extra for the 3-hour tour; the 2-hour tour is included in the price of the NYC CityPass) as well as the Empire State Building, the Guggenheim, the Met, the MoMA, and the Museum of Natural History. Normal admission to the Museum of Natural History – as we found out today – is $30! My, how times have changed. We were glad to have the CityPass.

We were only at the museum about an hour. I still can’t believe we did two museums in one day….

Anyway, we headed straight for the Hall of African Mammals. The elephants are extraordinary! Next it was off to the Hall of North American Mammals – Alaskan brown bears are much bigger and MUCH fluffier than I thought! I wanted to take one home and snuggle with it.

Then we saw the room with the blue whale: the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. I especially liked the polar bear. We were both impressed with the size of the blue whale.

Next, we visited the Ross Hall of Meteorites (space rocks!), the Guggenheim Hall of Minerals (snoozefest…), and the Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems, where they have the Star of India, the world’s largest sapphire.

After that, it was up to the 4th floor to see the dinosaur fossils. I think it would have Ben’s favorite part of the whole museum, except that by the time we got there, we were both completely worn out. Ben actually sat on a bench in front of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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