New York, New York

We spent the night in East Rutherford, New Jersey near the new Meadowlands Stadium, where both the NY Jets and NY Giants now play football.

 This however is the view of the new Meadowlands Stadium from our room...

This morning, we got up early and took the hotel shuttle bus to the Secaucus Junction train station.  We rode a train to Penn Station in Manhattan. Then we got on a subway and rode it to the 81st Street and Central Park West exit.  When we got off the subway it was only a short walk to the basement entrance of the Museum of Natural History...

So without ever having seen the light of day, this is one of the first things we saw upon entering the museum!

After spending half a day wandering through countless corridors and exhibits, we finally emerge from the museum entrance on Central Park West...

Next, we walked across the street to Central Park, where we wandered along on a maze of trails.

We finally managed to find Belvedere Castle after asking for directions...

This is a view of Central Park from the top of Belvedere Castle...

We walked under this bridge in Central Park...

This is Sunnye and her brother Dennis standing in front of the Dakota, where John Lennon was killed.

This is the only view we got of the Empire State building, which we saw as we were making our way back to Penn Station.

Rather than bore everyone with countless photos of the exhibitions we saw at the Museum of Natural History, we made this brief video of our experience:  Click Here to view our video.  Enjoy!