:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 ::

fun in the city
Yesterday, Mom and I headed into the city. We took the train in, caught the subway up to the Museum, walked around a bit, got dinner, hit Tower Records , and then headed home. We had a really good day and decided we should go in more often.

american museum of natural history
The Museum was built in memory of Theodore Roosevelt. The entire front hall is done up like a memorial, with quotes on the wall and stuff. There's a large brontosaurus rearing on his hind legs with what looks to be two velociraptors or allusaurus seeming to attack him in the center. We got our tickets and headed in. We checked out the African mammals room, the whale room (which was recently reopened after a huge renovation and looks great!), and then just wandered about until our scheduled time to enter the butterfly exhibit.

The butterfly exhibit is set up in what used to be the bird room. You can still see some of the bird exhibits in the windows around the room. They have a window that you can watch the butterflies through and there's a series of signs and pictures explaining different things about them. Once inside, your surrounded by plants and butterfly feeders. Apparently, butterflies like oranges and bananas. One of the women that works with them was holding an orange in her hand. A large butterfly was sitting on the orange eating away. I snapped a picture. I also got pictures of them sitting on the plants and the ceiling. There was one type of butterfly that had to be about 6 inches at the widest point of its wings. It was huge. We were watching it fly around the room before we went in.

strolling through the park
We walked along 8th Avenue (Central Park West) for a bit, looking at the fancy buildings and stuff. We then headed into the park and checked out Strawberry Fields. Mom had never seen the "Imagine" mosaic in the sidewalk, so we stopped and looked. By now, the rain had tapered off quite a bit, so it was a good day to walk around.

We even spotted Lauren Bacall walking her papion (without a pooper-scooper!). Mom said she looked terrible. ^^;;

columbus avenue
We walked over a block and wandered Columbus Ave a bit looking for a place to have dinner. We ended up at this small Italian café called Sesso. It was immensely filling and very delicious. Plus, the waiter was kinda cute. ^^;; They were really nice inside, too. Afterwards, we wandered downtown a bit and ended up hopping over a block to Broadway to head into Tower Records. Mom got a CD she wanted (I couldn't find anything that I didn't already have ^^;;) and then we caught the subway from Lincoln Center back to Penn.

yay!
We had a really good time. Both of us started falling asleep on the train home. It was a very satisfying day.