Wednesday 16th – Night (Day) At The Museum

I apologise in advance if my English in this post is crap, but I didn’t know how difficult it would be to write three blog entries in a row. Yes it’s my own fault for not keeping up with writing these as often as possible, but it’s still tricky. Speaking English is especially difficult when you spend most of your time chatting to Americans.
For about the fourth time, Wednesday was going to be central park day. Whilst I did go to Central Park when I first got to NYC, I only explored the top quarter really, and that’s where the least stuff is. So the past few times I had a day off, the plan had been to visit Central Park. As with every other time, I didn’t even set foot in the park this day.
Instead, we spent the afternoon looking round the Museum of Natural History, looking at dinosaur bones, walking through fake rainforests and looking up at the nights sky in the biggest planetarium I’ve ever been in. This museum was huge, with each exhibit room being the size of a typical museum. There was a room on sea life, which had a full-size replica of a blue whale hung in the middle of it. I tried to take a photo, but it was so huge that the flash wasn’t really enough to light it up well enough. The dinosaurs covered about 5 exhibit rooms, and as well as reconstructed T-Rex’s and Stegosaurus’ there was Woolly Mammoths and more recent weird creatures which I don’t even remember the name of.

The original plan had been to go home early after going to the museum, and spend the evening resting infront of the TV. But when we first arrived in the city on Wednesday, we had decided to go and see if there was any upcoming shows in Madison Square Gardens (which is right above the station) that we might be able to get tickets to. When we got in, it appeared that there wasn’t going to be a lot on in the near future that interested us, but a tiny little information sign caught my attention just as we were leaving. It spelt “Ricky Gervais, tonight only”. Whilst the tickets they had left weren’t exactly worth bragging about (5 rows from the back, stuck in the corner), we were still happy to part with $46 each so we could sit and listen (I was going to write watch, but you couldn’t see much from back there) to some good ol’ English comedy. The set was an amalgamation of the three previous English tours which meant that I’d heard all of the material before (and owned two thirds of it on DVD), but it was still hilarious to watch, even from the cheapest seats in the house.