New York City Spring Break

This was a statue of Teddy Roosevelt on top of a horse with an Indian walking alongside him. I know, it's a boring statue. I bet you are wondering why I took a picture of it then. You see, the sculptor made the horse anatomically correct. I'll try to be as discrete as possible - the horse had a giant sac. Timmy would have laughed with me.

There was only one thing left to do before I left Central Park - purchase and consume a hot dog from a street vendor. Even though it was March and there were few people hanging out outside, the vendors were still there to make money off of the tourists. Jenny questioned the vendor's food service qualifications, but all vendors must be licensed by the city and display their license at all times. I doubt that this man was ServeSafe certified, but I trusted his skills because the hot dog looked delicious and I was hungry. And it was good, I mean real good.

We stopped at the American Museum of Natural History because it was there. On the opposite side of the park (the Eastern side) we walked past the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but we didn't go in there. I thought that it cost $14 to enter, but I now know that it is only a suggested donation. Jenny I and didn't go in because we were running out of daylight and we wanted to spend enough time if we were paying $14. If only I had known about the donation, I would have tossed the guy $5 and looked around for a half hour to an hour. Instead, we just stood in the lobby and looked at the dinosaur skeletons. The security guards yelled at Jenny because she had brought her bottle of soda inside. Since we didn't plan on staying anyway, we decided to take our show on the road and see what else New York City had to offer in a few short hours.

Since we still had some daylight left, I decided that we should go and check out one of the bridges that connects the island Manhattan to the rest of New York City. This ceramic tile mural was at the bottom of the stairs and celebrates the American Museum of Natural History by showing a bloodthirsty shark heading towards the subway train.