Day At The Museum

Had my last NYC lunch at Ho Yip, a Chinese restaurant near my hotel where I usually get my fill of rice. We then headed to the American Museum of Natural History, the very museum where different animals, dinosaurs, cowboys, Indians and Theodore Roosevelt comes to life at night. Hehe.

We first watched a space show narrated by Whoopi Goldberg called "Journey to the Stars" in the Hayden Planetarium. It launched us into a visual voyage through space and time to witness the life and death of the stars. The effects were.. well, stellar. Haha. Would've been better if the seats reclined a little bit more, though.

We then went to the Hall of Ocean Life where a full-size model of a blue whale is suspended from the ceiling. There's also a lot of masterfully crafted dioramas that looked very real. The stuffed animals, the recreation of their natural habitats, the backdrop, everything blended well together creating little worlds inside the glass boxes.

One of the museum's main attractions was the huge collection of dinosaur fossils in the Hall of Dinosaurs. Still can't grasp the fact that these ridiculously gigantic creatures existed millions of years in the past and walked the same Earth that us humans do. I mean, seriously! There's the Pterodactyl, the Triceratops and the mighty Tyrannosaurus among many many others. Power Rangers lang ang peg. Haha.

I was kinda expecting to find Sacagawea in the Hall of Indians and was kinda hoping that she would look like Mizuo Peck. Haha. There were some artifacts from the Shoshone tribe of which she was a member but there was no Sacagawea in sight. The women mannequins looked just as manly as the men and almost all, if not all, looked kinda creepy. Also saw the Easter Island Head but I wasn't able to get close to it. Too bad coz I got the dum-dum some gum-gum. Hehe.

There are many other halls in the museum that a day is not enough to see everything that it has to offer. It closes at around 5:45pm, just before the sun sets. The guards were pretty unrelenting in sending us out, like they wanted everyone out of the museum fast. Hmm, I could only think of one reason why. Haha.

Had my last NYC dinner at Bar Masa, a Japanese restaurant located in The Shops at Columbus Circle. Not really a fan of raw food so I ordered my usual Japanese dish, Ebi Tempura! Hehe. For dessert we had the uber yummy green tea mille crêpe made of very thin layers of crepe (about 25 layers according to Candice) all stacked up like a piece of cake! It wasn't fancy-looking, it actually didn't look too appealing, but I swear, it was D-E-licious! =P~