Dino Dinner and Di(n)o-ramas

Chicken-nugget dinosaurs are the most fun food to eat.

They are also delicious.

When faced with the dilemma of something to eat,

these are our go-to meat from D'ag.

The other night,

I picked some of these bad boys up and . . . 

. . . made some dioramas!

These dinos are hanging out by a tree.

Jon says that the T-rex is watching the other dinosaurs

fatten up on the tree

before eating them.

Little does does the T-rex know,

though, he'll be eaten!

Ha!

This is a dead brontosaurus

that would normally become a fossil,

but didn't,

because I ate it.

Ha!

This was a quick meal:

dinosaurs - ten minutes or so in the toaster oven

(yes, Dani, the toaster oven!)

broccoli - twenty minutes or so in the toaster oven

mushroom cous cous - five minutes

Done!

That Time We Went to Governor's Island and Forgot Our Tutus and Hula-Hoops

Jon, Dani, Wee, and Chris 

have never been to Governor's Island before.

So Nat and I (Governor Island veterans)

showed them around.

What we didn't realize

was that this art event 

called Figment 

was happening at the same time.

While I remember seeing ads for it with 

the Statue of Liberty's face,

I didn't realize that one should also

dress appropriately for this by wearing

tutus, sequins, and/or flowers,

or just body paint. . . .

In any case, 

I think we all had a good time outdoors

doing something new.

Note that when I waiting to take a photo 

that was supposed to have been with

my head up by the Statue of Liberty's nose,

the guy right before me started humping it

for his Facebook profile. . . .

So I just took the photo above.

We took the 1 train down.

It is the slowest train ever.

It took us about half an hour to travel 

from 50th to South Ferry.

What?!

The terminal entrance and fro-yo!

Dani's camera

Lest we forget the microbacteria balls

(poop?)

that we wore rubber gloves

to throw the poop into the river.

If you see the poop man, though,

do NOT accept his hand-sanitizer.

It smells like poop.

Yuck!

On the island, taking a panorama

inside the castle.

Inside the walls of the castle,

spying on Wee and Dani.

Dani tries lifting the canon ball. 

Team Governor's Island!

And the Statue of Liberty in the background.

Jon is grimacing because he just finished

a whole box of nachos with the works

that I couldn't finish.

And the Statue of Liberty in the background!

Swings!

Chris swung pretty high.

He touched the sky, sky, sky. . . .

He flew out of the swing and rolled over.

Wee's dusting him off.

Nat and Dani swung too,

but they finished their swinging before we did.

The statues in the background are from Storm King.

Lighthouse?

Nat's photo

We forgot our hula-hoops, too!

  

Pikachu!

We saw some people riding around on bikes 

with similar nylon pieces.

We called them the dinosaurs.

This must be their mother.

There was a small parade

that we kept running into

that finally settle here

to do a dance in a circle.

The gold figure behind and to the right of the tree

is a naked woman

being painted.

Rafters of the chapel.

Nat's photo

Stained glass.

Nat's photo

Taking a break on a pew.

  

Generator?

The Brooklyn ferry lets off nearby it.

I recall it saying that it was illegal or hazardous

or something that makes me not want to ever trespass.

I'm so happy that I finally was able to 

circumnavigate the island!

And hang out with some friends and family, of course!

Day at the American Natural History Museum

The Google Offer for the American Natural History Museum was pretty awesome: $5 for a $25 value, which included admission to the museum plus one special exhibit/IMAX film/Space Show. The only bad part about it was that it was going to expire on Halloween, so Jon and I went on Sunday.

To gear up, we went to Landmarc for an onion soup lunch and had roasted potatoes, a bloody Mary, and a ginger ale. Their onion soup hit the spot--I don't think I ever really need to make my own, though it would certainly be cheaper to do so.

Hmm . . . anyway, stuffed, we walked up Broadway and Columbus to the museum and entered at the planetarium side. (It was around 3:30 p.m., and there was barely a line.) This was the first time either Jon or I had been to the museum since grammar school, so it was exciting for us to be going together.

We saw the Hayden Planetarium Space Show, which was awesome, though Whoopi Goldberg's voice kind of ruined it. Also the seats needed to recline more. I think it reclines as much as an economy airplane seat. The top portion of the globe structure is where you view the Space Show; below the equator of the globe, there's a room with a free show about the CMB/formation of our universe and you stand around looking down into the center of the room to view it.

Unfortunately, the whole museum was a bit run-down looking. There was Earth dust on the three meter meteorite--someone should really clean these things.

I saw a kid doing this in the oyster's shell, and it looked cool. The museum is superdark, so it's hard taking a decent pic with a camera phone or anything without a flash. Still this is one way to keep things from gathering dust: allow us to touch it!

The elephants in the halls of Asian mammals and African mammals were too dark to take a picture of, and forget about trying to take a photo of the whale. The whale was big, but I feel like a lot of the animals they have are smaller in scale to real ones. Like instead of average-size animals, they choose to represent the below average-size animals.

This guy though, he was pretty big. Like SmartCar big.

Dinosaur face.

Dinosaur face. Or rather the face you get when you're told you can't make the same face as a T-Rex.

Rarrrrrrrr! Dinosaurs!!!!!