After fueling up, we walked to the nearest subway stop and took the subway up to the American Museum of Natural History. We arrived a little before it opened at 10:00 am, but there was already a pretty significant line! Luckily, with our Smithsonian badges, we were able to bypass the line and $25 entrance fee.
This museum is massive (compared to NMNH) and maze-like with so much to see and do. All of the exhibits were great, but among my favorites were the North American mammals--those dioramas were pure art. I also especially liked the dinosaur and evolution exhibits.
After walking miles in the museum (trying to take in as much as we could), we headed outside to the nearby Shake Shack for burgers and fries. We have a Shake Shack in DC too, but this was a nice, easy (and inexpensive) meal. After eating, we walked to the subway and headed back to the hotel for a little break before setting out for dinner and other evening activities.
We walked to Greenwich Village (a really cute neighborhood) to have dinner at Keste: a pizza and wine place. We were still a little full from our late lunch so we had some wine and split a super-cheesy burrata/tomato/basil pizza. After dinner we wandered around, peeking into shops, and looking for the Huxtable residence from the Cosby Show. We found it, but it was covered with scaffolding!
We walked back up Broadway to Rockefeller Center (it was getting dark by this time) and looked around that area for a while. One place we found was the Nintendo World Store! We got in 10 minutes before closing and looked at all the cool stuff before getting a snack at Bouchon Bakery across the street. We looked at the Prometheus statue and played around some Stonehenge-like structures before walking back to our hotel and calling it a night. Tomorrow we visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
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