Day At The Museum

Since it’s the weekend, the train schedules have changed a

tad bit, which is good because now they come at better times. The plan was to take the commuter train to Penn Station like we did the first day and then grab the subway which would take us directly to the Museum of Natural History, a.k.a the museum from Night at the Museum. The first exhibit we went in was the hall of Africa animals, which is dominated by a central display of a herd of elephants. They stampede through the museum in the movie. Then we decided to go for lunch upstairs where the dinosaur exhibits are. We got to walk through a couple of

those both before and after we ate. There were a lot of different types of crocodiles apparently, and really big and scary fish, who didn’t have teeth, but had jagged jaws. After lunch we headed downstairs to go check out the hall of Pacific peoples, dedicated to the indigenous tribes of Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, etc. There, they had the big Easter Island head replica, that says Dumb Dumb in the Night at the Museum movie. Next was the hall of primates and the hall of plaines

Indians, which we really just skimmed over. Then we went down to the first floor to see the hall of human origins, all the about the history of human evolution. There were many things about DNA, which I am studying in science. Apparently, humans share 99% DNA with orangutans, which is both kind of cool and a little bit weird. There was also a model of one of the first versions of homo sapien, a male and a female walking side by side, which is an inference made when archeologists found two sets of perfectly preserved footprints in Africa, where it is believed the first homo sapiens appeared. A bit further on

was the hall of meteorites, boasting one of the largest meteorites ever found, fade entirely out of iron and being supported by metal beams that stretch all the way down into bedrock as it is so heavy. Then was the hall of gems and minerals, which was kind of boring but it was something for my periodic table studies. The main

attraction was the Star of India, one of the largest star sapphires in the world. The size of it just goes to show how rare precious metals are, as it is not actually all that huge. After that we exited through the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, which is the main entrance where the T-Rex stands in the movie but

now houses a barosaurus, a rather massive plant eater. Out on the front steps is a statue of Teddy Roosevelt on his horse, the statue that the character of Robin Williams was modelled after in the movies. After that, we crossed the street to walk around Central Park. It really is quite a beautiful park, especially with all the leaves changing colour at this point. We saw a couple of fountains and a bridge where I’m sure some kissing scenes have been filmed in romantic movies. It’s a pretty busy park, but that’s to be expected considering it’s so famous. We got back on the subway and then the commuter train to go back home and ended up getting back earlier than the last few days. Tomorrow, it will just be me and the boys. Peace out m8s.

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