Thursday with the Perrys

This morning we took the subway to the American Museum of Natural History. We got it wrong the first time and had to double back because we were on the F or Blue line going to Jamaica instead of the C or Orange line to the museum. Anyway, we got there eventually, stood in line for tickets, and entered the museum. (Everywhere you go in NYC, you wait in line for whatever you want. It's like China.)

Our goal was to see the Hayden Planetarium. We found it and were herded, along with a bazillion 5- and 6-year-olds, into a domed theatre to watch the movie "Dark Matter" explaining how the universe was formed and the discovery of dark matter. You'll have to ask Neil deGrasse Tyson to explain. 

After the show, we did a little shopping in the museum gift shop and then went outside to wait for Haim and Nettie Perry to pick us up. Haim and Nettie live in New Jersy but come into the city often so they know what's going on there. They took us to the Museum of Art and Design, where we looked at the exhibits and had a light lunch at a very nice restaurant there. 

Then we all went to a place called Eatily, which was like an Italian whole foods market and eatery. After browsing the market goods, we went up to the roof restaurant for dinner. We didn't stay, though, because there was nothing, and I mean nothing, on the menu I would eat. All they had were body parts...pigs ears, veal sweetbreads, and I forget what else but it was other similar bits of animals. 

So then we got into the car again and went to SoHo to see the Casper bed that we saw on the Fareed Zakaria show. They said we could take a nap on it to try it out. We did lie on it for a few minutes but Haim and Nettie were waiting in the car so we didn't stay long. It seemed like a nice mattress though.

We had one more errand to run: I promised my hair stylist, Kim, that I would send her a New York cheesecake so we went to a bakery recommended by Baruck and ordered a 6-inch cheesecake to be delivered to Alpine, CA. The cheesecake cost $16 and the shipping was $54. Oh well, what the heck.

Haim and Nettie had heard about a pizza restaurant, Keste Pizza, and wanted to try it, so we went there for dinner. The pizzas were very good and had no weird stuff on them so I was happy, 

Finally, after a very full day, we returned to our hotel and said goodbye to our friends. We will probably see them again in San Diego.

Book of Mormon

Yesterday after our bus tour of Central Park, we caught a cab and met our friend Baruch at a Turkish restaurant for lunch. After lunch he drove us to a bakery restaurant for dessert. Baruch told us the restaurant was the one used in the movie When Harry Met Sally. We engulfed in a chocolate fondue of fresh fruit and marshmallows.

After lunch we went back to our hotel to rest for the evening performance of Book of Mormon. The play was everything we thought it would be...funny, rowdy and irreverent. It was a lot of fun and over much too soon.