Sunday night I went in to the city with a friend and stayed over monday. Monday morning I visited the Museum of Natural History
Hi. TF,
What? No food in Chinatown??? <grin> A place of downright pilgrimage for me at least, every time I go down... Here in Ithaca, though, we've finally gotten a Chinese restaurant that can do the steamed pork buns as well as any I ever had on Mott St., and roast duck isn't quite the rare offering it once was. But Chinatown, geeze you soak up much more of the atmosphere, Buddhist, Taoist temples, (Yes, I know the NYSE is the "Dow"ist temple of the West) and with all the competition, you can feed an army for almost nothing. If I can figure out sometime how to get the shiitake mushrooms back up here on the bus, I could resell them and make a fortune! And that's not what's in the cookie, either!
As far as your museum visit goes, if you've Netflix you should rent Night at the Museum. A light, comedic look at that very museum!
Glad you had a good trip. Last year when we went down, on the same SI Ferry, as we passed Ellis Island I pointed it out to my wife, "there, on that very island was an ancestor of mine, poor kid, in quarantine for several months, his name was Vito Andolini. She looked at me kinda funny-like, as in real life I don't have any Italian ancestry, and I could see the wheels in her head going that the name was ringing a little bell back there someplace. It was when I also mentioned with a faux mafia/Brooklyn accent about "my cousin Vinnie, from Bayonne over there" that she realized I was being a real wise guy and that Vito Andolini was the birth name of Vito Corleone OOOOOoooh such a smack I got, a real whack upside the head! But I almost burst a gut I was laughing so hard! Like one of those MasterCard moments, "priceless!"
Glad you had a good trip! And that all the Bull of it was our lil' Wall st mascot! BTW if you continued down Broadway past the bull, you would have passed 9 Broadway. Throw yourself back in time to 15 April 1912 and you'd have found a crowd out there, panicked and scared. You see, there were the offices of the White Star Line, and everybody was trying to get any news at all about the RMS Titanic. Never mind being within walking distance of Fraunces Tavern, which I believe still has a lock of George Washington's hair and goes back to that era. All the history under your feet going back to New Amsterdam, even!
Best,
AIMster
P.S. You can take me out of the city, but you can't take the city out of me! I still dream of subways now and then, even after being up here over 20 years! The place makes an impression on you no doubt. Nevermind when we went back to out old apartment building in Queens in 2003 - our names were still on the directory of residents - 14 years later! They've never updated them! So I told my wife, as we stepped back outside in front of the building, "if we stand here long enough, we'll see our younger selves coming out, just like the Twilight Zone!!! Of course, our younger selves would say, "You two are the future??? AAAAAAAhhhh!!!"
