Hot Child in the City

Day Nine

Garrett was upset that we hadn't done anything "New York" all weekend during the daytime, so we planned to get up "early" yesterday and go to the American Museum of Natural History, which is only a few blocks up the road from here.

We ended up staying there almost until closing time. We spent too much time in the stupid part about ancient peoples because it was our first stop and we didn't realize how huge the museum was - or that not all of it was as boring as those exhibits. A disproportionate amount of the museum was dedicated to rocks and minerals and they had this stupid 4-minute video about the Big Bang narrated by Maya Angelou that was hilarious. We were really looking forward to the dinosaur exhibit, which took up the entire 4th floor, but we had to kind of rush through it in order to make it to the museum store before closing time. Elke and I both bought hand-held fans that have a light show in them as well. They're the best things ever, especially on the subway.

We wanted to go somewhere delicious for dinner, and Garrett kept talking about Ethiopian food. It turns out this recommendation was not nearly as good as his last one. We went to Awash, and every single thing was spicy, and I don't do very well with spicy. I got one of the more mild chicken dishes, and it was pretty good, but not nearly filling enough. And you eat it with this weird dough-bread stuff that I didn't like. There are no utensils and everything's dripping in sauce, so it's really messy and gross. I had to stop at McDonald's for some fries because it left me so unsatisfied.

The fries, of course, were delicious.

posted by Megan @ 11:55 PM