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28th October 2015 | Wednesday
It's back to free and easy, so we took the liberty to rest more and woke up at around 8am. Prepared and packed up our luggage, we set off to Chinatown again to buy American Ginseng. Many have said that the authentic ones with reasonable price are located there. Weather was a little moody, there was a drizzle as we started our journey. And the umbrella we brought was too small, we decided to buy a bigger umbrella.
It's back to free and easy, so we took the liberty to rest more and woke up at around 8am. Prepared and packed up our luggage, we set off to Chinatown again to buy American Ginseng. Many have said that the authentic ones with reasonable price are located there. Weather was a little moody, there was a drizzle as we started our journey. And the umbrella we brought was too small, we decided to buy a bigger umbrella.
While looking for a shop, I came across this BMW car plate, ' I love NY, so WUT'. Awesome!! I want a car plate like that, but it isn't possible in Malaysia, haha.
We bought this specific packing as my mother's friend bought this same one for her in the past. After this, we went to the nearest subway to head over to the Museum Of Natural History.
The subway leads directly to the museum and is slightly decorated with historical stuffs on the wall, like this T-Rex fossil shown in the picture. The moment I saw the entrance to the museum from the subway, I turned grim, it turns out that there's a freaking lotsa people who wants to visit due to the rainy weather outside! I was telling myself, "OMG, we'd be wasting a lot of time queuing up like this, bummer".
I decided to look for another entrance to compare which queue would be
shorter. I headed out of the subway and went to the main entrance of the
museum while Iris stayed at subway to queue. As expected, the queue was
long too. Then again, I tried to ask one of the staffs on which queue
to stick to and where I could redeem for my admission tickets. To my surprise, the staff asked me to follow her and I told
her I had to look for Iris at the subway entrance. So, we went to look
for Iris and got escorted into the museum! We literally avoided the long queue which could take about 1h 30m! She was such a lifesaver, we were so thankful!
American Museum of Natural History
Address : Central Park West & 79th St, New York
Phone : +1 212-769-5100
Hours : 10:00 AM - 5:45 PM
Website : http://www.amnh.org/We entered and our stomachs growled, we need to have our brunch first before spending a long day at the museum. Thus, we decided to head over to the food court in the museum. The place was packed like sardines! Fortunately, we got a table as soon as a group of people left the place.
This was what we had for our meal. However, I was extremely shocked at the price for something simple like this. This hurts my wallet, I could have had better food outside in the city, sob. It was about 1pm when we finished our meal, we had to start exploring the museum!
There was a queue for this too, so many people wanted to take picture with the Easter Island Head which got popular thanks to Night at the Museum. It was so funny in the movie. "Dum Dum! You give me gum gum!"
My favorite part of the museum, dinosaurs! Well, I'm not the only fan, the crowd here was immense as well!
It was about 4.30pm when I took this, we were at the top floor after visiting the dinosaurs. It's still raining outside, look at the mist, it was cold! But I'm still loving the weather so far!
Selfie with the blue whale!
We left the place and the rain just got heavier. So, we took the subway back to East Broadway and headed to the nearest place for a meal before shifting to another homestay.
We actually enjoyed Mc Donald's here, the meal was prepared upon order. Love my food hot! And also, the McD burger I had was larger than the ones in Malaysia. Iris looked like 'I want my Happy Meal *pouting* ' in the picture, lol.
Buttermilk Crispy Chicken Burger
Price : $6.95
Taste : 7/10
I got to say that the taxi drivers here are just friendly. Every ride I had here, the taxi drivers would just initiate conversation and tell me their stories. In this particular ride to Times Square, this taxi driver told me that he didn't enjoy his New Year in Times Square as the crowd started gathering as early as 10am to camp and celebrate the countdown. That's crazy! When he brought his family to Times Square at 10pm for the celebration, he was about 6 blocks away, can you imagine that!? So, he told me in an upset tone that he could only see fireworks and some balloons from so far away. The sight must have been amazing being at Times Square for the countdown.
When we reached the next homestay in Times Square, we were waiting for the host as she had an urgency at work. We waited close to 2 hours, we were already depressed with the fact that our times were wasted. When she arrived, she apologised repeatedly and helped us with our belongings to her unit. Her unit is 2 flights of stairs away from the ground, there's no elevator as we already knew. Once we settled at her unit, we freshened up and went for dinner. The host, J was feeling bad to make us wait, so she decided to treat us for dinner. We wanted something different and she recommended us one of her favorite dining spots in the city. We were heading for Ethiopian cuisine.
Meskerem
Address : 124 Macdougal St, New York
Phone : +1 212-777-8111
Hours : 12:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Meskerem Combo
- consists of Tibs Wat, Gomen Basaega, Yebeg Alecha, Miser Alech, Miser Wat and others
Price : $16.95
Taste : 7/10
It's our very first time trying Ethiopian food, and we gotta say that it tastes similar to Indian food. The Injera(not shown) which is an Ethiopian staple food, was not as appetizing as we thought, it was rather sticky and flat in terms of taste. Tosai tasted better than Injera for me, LOL. Still, it was a good experience! But is it a hearty meal? Not really. Given a choice, I'd go for Indian food any time of the day. And there goes my crave for Indian food as off typing at this very moment.
We finished dinner around 11 and headed to bed after a nice warm shower.
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