We set off out a bit later today, 10:20 I think, & dropped down into the subway at the other end of the road & caught the uptown C train to Columbus Circle which is right on the southwest corner of Central Park. Plenty of shops around there including the Time Warner shopping centre. We headed over to one of the food kiosks on the corner of the park & had some brunch, chicken & noodle soup with a bread roll & large coffee for me. There are some impressive skyscrapers in this area as well that are mostly glass & reflect the other buildings all around. We had a stroll around here for a while & spent some time watching people making ice sculptors with chainsaws. With that done it was time to move on so we got the next subway train uptown to the American Museum of natural history (AMNH for short). Considering it's not that cheap to go in at $18 each it was worth every cent. The place is vast inside with around 30
halls or so. We had our photo taken with Dumb Dumb (from a night at the museum movie), it was so funny watching everyone who came into that hall because he was the first thing they seen & immediately stated rein acting the scene from the film. After a lot more walking round in there, it was time for some lunch & a beer in the cafe inside the museum. Not a place we would eat at again, food was an overpriced & not tastiest meal I've ever had, made good use of the free Wi-Fi in there as well though.
By now it was getting towards closing time & we hadn't even covered two-thirds of the place but we had to have a look at the Hayden Planetarium. By this time we had decided we would to make another trip here tomorrow or before we went home at least. Somehow we came out of the building & straight into the subway station that was packed with everyone else who was coming out of the museum as well. Only to be expected I suppose.
Time Square on a Saturday night is not the place to be if you don't like crowds, the place was absolutely packed, you could hardly walk down the pavement without having to fight your way through the crowds but we needed something to eat before going back to the hotel. All the good places to eat where full so we ended up getting some sandwiches (& beer) from the shop on the corner & eating back at the hotel. I decided to go back out again a bit later on to use the free Wi-Fi in Time Square so I could post some stuff on Facebook & check on my emails.
