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Museum of Natural History Rotunda. A real big dinosaur is
in there! |
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We spent some time checking out all the mammel dioramas. They never
cease to amaze me. I really enjoy the background paintings, they are very
realistic. |
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Jaime sneaking up on a herd of elephants. Don't try this at home. |
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Hi elephant! |
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These animals kept staring at me. I don't know what's wrong with them. |
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A gorilla jumped out of the brush and let us know that we were invading
its territory. I pounded my chest back and he went back to minding his
own business. |
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This tiger looked hungry. Good thing they're not real live animals or
we would have been in trouble. |
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This is a Fisher, and they are sometimes seen in upstate NY. My boss
saw one a few months ago near his house. They're pretty neat looking animals. |
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Jaime enjoying a chat with the grizzley bears. |
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This Jaguar is about to jump on something. |
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We then went to the "Hall of Biodiversity" and saw... well...
a lot of biodiversity. |
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The spider family. |
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The sea mammels were particularly interesting. They even had a life
sized blue whale in the room. It was monstrously huge! |
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Hi blue whale! |
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Hi fish! |
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Then we checked out the dinosaur fossil department. I can't believe
that these things actually roamed the earth. To think that something this
big could have been running around is crazy! |
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I wouldn't like to be anything near that monster! |
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The stegosarus with its armored backbone. |
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The "Duckbill" dinosaur. |
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A Triceritops. |
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With no flash. |
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The skyline above central park. |
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More skyline. |
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Here's the front of the museum. |
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Jaime and I then went for a walk in central park. We were lucky and
our visit cooincided with a big Christo installation "Gates"
which officially opened the day after we left, but we did get a feel for
the artwork. It's pretty amazing, he put 7500 gates around central park.
This project has been 25 years in the making! It's costing him $21,000,000
out of his own pocket to pull it off! |
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Hanging around... |
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They made for a very interesting walk, and as Christo's intent, the
orange really invigorated the park as it was so dead being the end of
winter. |
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Originally they were supposed to dig holes for all of these (13,000
holes), but the environmental impact was too great. They settled on using
these 300 pound iron weights to hold the gates down. The tubing is made
out of PVC. |
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They were all over the place. |
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Me and Jaime had fun frolicking through them. |
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We checked out one of the ponds in the park. |
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La la la. It was pretty frozen still. |
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More gates. |
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I've never been down this walkway before. The trees made a beautiful
canopy. It must be real nice in the summer. |
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Jaime wanted to see Trump Tower. Here it is! |
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On top of this building is the "Ball Pole" where everyone
watches at the end of the year. |
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The NYC skyline attempt from the bus. |
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Here' s a few Truckdoza photos I had left over. |
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Doing some shift linkage restoration. |
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Taking stuff apart... |
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New shift kit. I had to figure it out a little bit but it should be
a pretty awesome addition to the truck. |
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We mounted the fuel filter and air box. |
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Detail of the air box. |
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Detail of the fuel filter. |
