Museum mania

We started off a little later today, getting out the door at 8am. There was a diner a block uptown that had an $8 all you can eat deal so we loaded up on breakfast food. We braved the subway and found it to be relatively easy, although we got off a few stops too early. Central park was lovely in the fresh morning air and we walked through the park to get the Museum of Natural History. What a dud - nothing interactive, nothing hat looked like it had been updated for 20 years and a very old fashioned look and feel. Picture a diorama with a stuffed tiger in front of a painted background....Josh decided that it was his life's greatest desire to see all the Night at the Museum characters so we trailed around for a few hours. The Easter Island statue was there but Ghengis Khan was nowhere to be found. A little weary, we trudged through the ramble in Central Park to get to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. this was excellent but by this time we had walked for 5 hours and were struggling. We did a whistle stop tour of the Greek/roman section, the Egypt rooms and the modern art part (Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol). The museum was fabulous but we were done. We sat out on the front steps to listen to an acapella group and then dragged our feet over two blocks to Lexington Candy Shp- a diner that looks like it has not been updated for 50 years. We revived ourselves with ice cream treats and continued on to catch the subway home. After an hour rest we trooped out for dinner at Carmine's. It was worth venturing out again- huge family style plates of great food. We are feeling quite confident now with the layout and the crowds.