The Big New York Summary Post

(Note: I have decided to just write a big summary post for the rest of my time in New York and another for all my time in Washington D.C)

After my last post we did a few things but I don't remember what order they were in.

One day we went to see a very funny off-Broadway play called The Government Inspector which is about a man who is mistaken for a government inspector in a pre-Soviet Russian village.

Another day I went to the amusement park at Coney Island and had hotdogs at Nathan's. I had a lot of fun going on the rides and got very dizzy because of them. In the evening I went to see a baseball game at Yankee Stadium with my uncle. It was the Yankees vs. the Rays.  

One day I went and walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. It was very windy and there were a lot of padlocks and tumbler locks attached to it. Afterwards we went to the same burger place we went to before and had lunch. After lunch I went back to the apartment and that was the end of the day.

The next day I went to a flea market. As I expected it was filled with other people's trash and I didn't find it very interesting. Afterwards we went to a small cafe for a snack and went for a walk by the sea. There was a lot of wind and it was warm and sunny. I then went to a Hot Topic and brought some shirts.

The Intrepid Museum and Wax Statues

26th July. Today we went to go visit the Intrepid Museum. The first thing that we saw was a submarine called the Growler which launched nukes and was one of two ever made. It was used during the Cold War against the Soviet Union and was designed to attack cities from out at sea.

We saw a Concorde and multiple American planes. They also had two Soviet planes, the Mig 17 and the Mig 21. In another room they had a Lego scale model of the aircraft carrier that was the museum. In another room they had a space shuttle which was really big.

My favourite things were the space shuttle and some safety cartoons that had a character called Dilbert the pilot and another one called Spoiler the mechanic. I liked these because they were very funny.

After the Intrepid Museum we went to Madame Tussaud’s to look at the waxwork collection. I didn’t understand who quite a bit of the people were but I liked it. They even had one of Donald Trump that you could take a photo with.

For dinner we had moules frites at a nearby restaurant which was very good.

Some Museums and Cheesecake

27th July. Today we went to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. It didn’t have a lot of things but I liked it. One room had a giant iguana in it. They also had boa constrictors, some different types of fish, and an orange parrot that was very pretty to look at but didn’t talk.

Next we went to the Brooklyn museum which had a lot of Egyptian artefacts. An interesting thing I learned was the reason why many of the statues didn’t have noses. It was because the Egyptians believed that spirits could enter through the eyes and noses of the statues so in order to prevent this from happening they knocked off the noses. Another reason it happened was because the Christian minority who lived in Egypt defaced the statues because they belonged to a pagan religion.

We then took a ferry that went round Ellis Island so we could go look at the Statue of Liberty. We had seen it a few times before but this was the first time we had got to see it close up. I liked the boat ride because there was a nice breeze and we got some good views of the cityscape and the statue.

Afterwards we went to Juniors for dinner and had some of the best cheesecake ever. It came in very large quantities, too. My piece was as big as my own face.

When dinner was over we went home and went to bed. 

The Met

25th July. Today we went to the Metropolitan Museum. There we saw many interesting things including lots of Egyptian artefacts, suits of knight armour, and ornate pistols that were made by Samuel Colt. The pistols and the knight amour were the best things that I saw.

One interesting section of the museum had many different things from Japan made of bamboo.   

Afterwards my Dad went to go and meet a friend so my Mum, my sister, and I all went to the top of the Empire State Building together. We had a really good view from the top and could see the whole city.

For dinner we had bagels at home.