Along the way, we saw this.
Hello, Guggenheim! But we didn't go in - I visited it later in the week.
Sunny morning, hanging out on the steps, waiting for it to open
Kekeke
Unfortunately, we basically had to run through the collection without stopping to read the descriptions and skipping major things like the Egyptian section...but we were still there for 2.5 hours! Sheet - time schedule not working!
So we grabbed a hotdog from a streetside stall and trundled across Central Park to ANMH, where we basically ran to the top of the building to the dinosaur section.
Which had this giant spider over the (closed) main entrance.
Rexy!
Trixie!
Hey, it's Kevin!
EEEEEK!!!
A mammoth
Hehehe, Spu looks like Beethoven.
Roar!
Steggie. The really funny thing about being up there was remembering all the random info we learned about dinosaurs when we were kids. The different periods, names, etc...
Like an aussie...
The hall of American Animals was closed but the African and Asian ones were open, thank god.
I think these were black rhinos?
As a sign of our mutual immaturity, we looked at this sign and simultaneously said *boobies!*
A very close parent-child relationship
Dum-dum!
Mexican dog sculpture. It looked much cuter without flash.
Spu gets into a spot of bother with a giant head
The Hall of Biodiversity.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Well, we do our next best without sitting in it
Poor taxidermied tiger
Seriously though, the taxidermy was both impressive for the sheer number of animals but also depressing when you realise how many animals were killed for it.
But this is a model of a baby blue whale that died naturally.
Sharks chasing a turtle
The Squid and the Whale - an Epic Battle
After a mexican lunner, we walked down the Upper West Side and swung by the Dakota. We couldn't go to Strawberry Fields because a crime was committed in broad daylight close by.
Spu wasn't too keen on MOMA (he doens't like Modern Art) but I convinced him that it would be worth it. In the end, I think he decided that it was the best museum because it had an exhibit examining things related to children. This included advertising, toys, films etc.
And it had these giant tables and chairs that we were allowed to climb over!
On Saturday morning I finally made it back to the Guggenheim (Spu went shopping), but the main spiral was closed due the the installation of an exhibit so we could only take photos in the foyer and look at the exhibits in the annexe.
Then when I left the museum, there was, irony of ironies, a German culture parade on! It actually kinda made me wish I had my dirndl with me but I did end up having a nice chat (auf Deutsch!) to these Swabisch ladies who'd been in the US for 40-50 years.
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I like the giant furniture!
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