Our Last Day in the City!

We planned to get up early this day to take a bike ride through Central Park. There was a bike tour of places in the park where movies and tv shows had been filmed. Unfortunately, we awoke in the early morning hours to lightning and thunder and pouring rain! Fortunately, we slept in and when we went outside, it had cleared up! We missed the tour, but we rented bikes and rode around Central Park on our own. What an amazing place! Just stuck in the middle of the city, but it seems worlds apart from the city!

This was a lake in the park. Across the way was another part of the city and I thought it was a cool looking skyline, so I used my camera's sweet panoramic option to get this picture!

Everyone else kept riding their bikes, but I stopped to take pictures of all of these cool places!

I liked this family of ducks on the pond....

There were playgrounds and ballfields, and apparently even a zoo but we didn't see that!

We did find an ice cream vendor and that helped to cool us down!

We rode all the way around the park, about 6 miles.

After the park, we headed to the toy store!

After playing there awhile, we started walking to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As we were walking, there was lightning and thunder, but it was pretty cool to listen to. There was some beautiful buildings on our way there and we were enjoying the view...about a block from the museum, the rain started and it poured! We ran the last little bit and ran into the museum. Even though it was a short run, we were pretty wet! Anyway, great place to wait out the rain!

Actually, we took this picture after we came out and the rain had stopped! I read a book in grade school called "From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler" and it was about 2 kids who hid in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I remember really liking the story and I kept thinking about it as we walked around. It is really amazing what is inside this building!

Whole temples, donated by countries who were helped by Americans...

Displays of suits of armor and weapons...I think these were described in the book I was talking about...

There were several rooms of these amazing inlaid wood walls...

And of course, original paintings I had only seen before in the game of "Masterpiece"!

The rain stopped and we headed off to dinner.

Burgers! Our favorite! While we were eating it started to pour again! We were glad we were inside enjoying our meal!

After dinner, we went to a movie, "Mr. Popper's Penguins." The theater was on the 8th or 9th floor of a building! We had to ride steep escalator's up and up and up! That was an experience in itself! It was a fun movie and it was set in NYC so we recognized places we had visited this week. After the movie, we said Goodnight to the City and went back to our hotel. We were picked up about 10:30 am and taken back to the airport! It was a great vacation and a good time was had by all! I'll leave you with this last cute picture of the girls in the t-shirts that bought at "Spiderman".

Thanks for sharing our vacation with me! It's fun to review all the things we did!