Dinosaurs!

Six days ago my uncle finally arrived. The next day we took the train to the Museum of Natural History.

When we got there we saw a lot of amazing things. We started by looking at the African animals where they had preserved lions, tigers, and other animals. The coolest of all of these was a whole elephant that was mounted on a pedestal in the middle of the room. 

The next thing we saw was the Asian items. They had samurai amour, various weapons, and uniforms of different peoples. 

The next and best things we saw were the dinosaurs. They had the galleries arranged chronologically so you could see how the dinosaurs evolved over time. They had many whole skeletons and one of a brontosaurus poking through the doorway at the entrance to greet you.

After the dinosaurs we went to the see the sea creatures and the wall of biodiversity. The wall of biodiversity was a wall entirely covered in models and pictures of creatures from every single animal family on earth. The sea creatures section had a giant whale floating in the middle of it. They had many different types of fish on display as well as sea lions, otters, and some types of sea birds.

Then we walked across Central Park and went to the Guggenheim museum. While we were walking we passed the obelisk there. 

After the Guggenheim museum we went to a ramen place near the house for dinner and had some really good ramen.

Arrival and First Day in New York

Yesterday I got up very early to go to the airport at around 5am. First we flew from Vancouver to Toronto. The plane flight was boring but it had movies so it wasn't all bad. Luckily we were not flying with United Airlines so we got where we wanted to go without being thrown off the plane part way. In Toronto we had sandwiches for lunch and then got on our flight to New York. The New York flight was shorter than the one to Toronto and I ended up watching more movies on it.

When we got to New York we tried to get an Uber car to take us to our apartment but something went wrong and we had to settle for a taxi instead. When we finally got to the apartment my Dad and I went to go find some dinner. We went to a pizza place with a wood-fired oven which had the best pizza ever. It had puffy crust and the toppings were good as well. After that I went to bed. 

Today I went on a bus tour of some of the famous buildings in New York. We went out to a nice restaurant for breakfast where I had a big plate of eggs, toast, and sausage. We then boarded the subway to go to the bus tour starting place. On the first train we were on (we had to change twice) there was a black Trump supporter who was yelling some sort of hate speech with religion mixed in. 

When we got to our destination we saw a lot of ads as we were in Times Square. I also saw a large two story shop that was just filled with M&M products. 

While we were on the tour we saw the Empire State, the Chrysler Building, and The Flat Iron Building as well as 5th Avenue. The most interesting thing I learned was about the church which had not been damaged in 9/11 because the large old tree behind it had taken all the damage instead of the church.

Eventually we got off the bus because it was too hot. We saw the Statue of Liberty from afar and had lunch at a small place in Greenwich Village afterwards that had homemade lemonade.

We took the subway back to the apartment and I had a nap. 

When I woke up we went for dinner at a burger place. We had to take a bus there and for some reason the driver went completely off route. We got there eventually there though and had really good burgers. The fries were good too but my mouth went on fire due to the pepper. While we were going there it started raining. It stopped for a brief period but on the way back it started again. It wasn't very heavy rain but it was still enough to make you significantly wet.