Christmas Dinosaurs!

We are up early and head to the Washington Square area that we went to with Jeanne on Thursday.  We get a good breakfast first to set us up well for the day ahead.  The area is really nice – much more residential and a big change from the big skyscrapers of Midtown/Downtown.  We have a good wander about and do a little retail therapy – we are in New York after all, before heading back to the hotel to drop off the excess bags.  Good job we bought the extra bag last night!  (Slightly worried blog readers may be noticing a theme...)

Next we jump in a cab to the Natural History museum for Mr M to have some geology therapy!  It is huge and we are particularly impressed by the Christmas dinosaurs on display outside.

A Christmas Dinosaur (the tree, not Mr M!)

We of course go to the planet earth galleries which are cracking (we are running out of positive adjectives for the blog if you hadn't noticed...), then to the planetarium and then end up in the dinosaur galleries which again Mr M is very impressed with. 

Kelvin meets the ancestors...

 A bit of a whirlwind trip to the Natural History Museum but we both enjoy it.

Dinosaurs at the museum

After a spot of tea we make our way to the Empire State Building.  We get there ok (again after a slightly crazy taxi ride through the streets of New York) and join quite an immense number of queues to get to the 82^nd Floor out of 102.  We make our way up in the elevators (lifts) and eventually make it to the 82^nd floor.  What an unbelievable view – twinkling lights everywhere that go on and on.  It is so pretty and we love the view.  It’s also totally different doing it at night compared to the Top of the Rock Observatory we did earlier in the week.  A great last night in the Big Apple!  

Thousands of twinkling lights across the skyline and at the Chrysler Building

Mrs & Mr M