Today we did our best to see as much of two museums as we could - The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Natural History Museum (think "Night at the Museum"). Our strategy was to take the kids to the Met first so they had the incentive of going to the other museum to get them through. We loved the Met - such a huge and amazing museum. The girls were interested for quite a while - there was a special exhibition from the Costume Institute - Charles James dresses - divine! The boys loved the armoury exhibit and the Egyptian rooms. Damian and I loved the artwork again - such a feast for the eyes and we also loved the Frank Lloyd Wright room set up from a home which had been designed by him - from the architecture through to the furniture. Our big disappointment was the Tiffany Room which was closed for refurbishment - I'd been very keen to see that so will have to come back another day!!
Ready for the Met
We had a great (though very hot) walk through Central Park and found a cafe to eat at on the West side before taking off through the Natural history Museum. A big hit with all of us, especially the special "Spiders Alive" exhibit with massive tarantulas and other fabulous hairy things!! So much to explore here so we had to do the trip on high speed and take in as many highlights as we could.
On arriving home we were lucky enough to have a visit from Damian's cousin Cookie, from New Jersey. She's so much fun and has great stories to tell of Damian as a young traveller sleeping on her sofa for maybe a bit too long!! The kids were also amazed at her telling of her experience with 9-11 - she was in the building opposite and witnessed the first plane going into the building. Scary and awful and thankfully she's here to tell us the story.
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