Upper West Side

Our first full day in NYC has come to an end and our poor feet are already killing us. Oh well, hopefully a little rest will give us the energy for tomorrow. Today we visited the American Museum of Natural History. We are definitely not museum lovers but thought we should at least go to one while we were here. Honestly, it proved to be just as boring as any other museum I have ever visited. It was field trip central. I believe NYC students are still in school so I guess they were filling their last days with field trips. In addition, reading all the information that billions of years ago dinosaurs roamed the earth and that man evolved from ape just didn't appeal to me. Oh well, been there don't plan to do it again.

After the museum we strolled the norther part of Central Park. We had already visited the south end last year. Central Park is so beautiful. I love the beauty and serenity of the park with the city skyline in the background. That is the kind of country living that appeals to me, a quite beautiful park with the city just footsteps away. It's fun to watch the kids in the park. So many kids seem to roam the city alone at such a young age. I would have loved to live in a city like NYC when I was young.

After we left Central Park, we went to a little restaurant on Amsterdam Ave called "Good Enough to Eat". It was a special treat. The food was great and our waitress was from Georgia. They actually served sweet tea and it was really good. A previous employee from Savannah had taught them to make it and talked them into adding it to the menu. A Mexican guy named Hosea cooked my pasta and it was awesome. We lingered there for awhile conversing with the waitress. Afterwards we caught the subway back to the hotel and died for awhile. We were so exhausted. We finally drug ourselves up and walked again up the street to visit an authentic Japanese, family run restaurant. It was also very good.

Tomorrow we get to tour Manhattan with our Big Apple Greeter. I hope we can keep up with him after a full day of walking. It's a good thing we are doing all this walking because we sure are doing a lot of eating. It's hard to pass up food because everywhere you walk, food is cooking somewhere. The smells are so enticing. I wonder if there are any fat New Yorkers. They all walk and bike everywhere so I guess they can eat whatever they want and stay skinny.

More later, Got to rest up for tomorrow.