Open-top Buses and a Day at the Museum, New York, United States - 22nd October 2018

It's our first day into Manhattan itself, and we sign up to one of those open-top hop-on-hop-off bus tour things. Our first chosen stop is at the Museum on Natural History on Central Park West, near to the Ghostbusters building and putative location of the film Night at the Museum - a favourite of the boys and thus sepcifically requested by them. After that, we eat a hotdog and then cross over Central Park, via the turtle pond and an ice cream, before re-joining the bus and heading back to mid-town. We then - after some difficultly thanks to lack of mobile signal - meet up with Phil in his office near the top of the Rockerfeller Center, a location with one of the best office-window views ever, before finally getting the subway back to Pen Station and the train back to Millburn.

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We eat some left-over pizza for breakfast

We eat some left-over pizza for breakfast

Harry swings about

Fred roams the garden

Harry and Fred play a bit of 'soccer'

Leaving Millburn for Penn Station

Harry looks glum

On the top deck of a double-decker train

The boys peer out of the window to see New York

Our first view of Manhattan, outside Penn Station

An iconic stripey ConEdison steam vent

The boys pose with some knock-off cartoon characters

A hotdog stand is hauled around

A busy 7th Avenue

Isobel checks out the map

Interesting building detail, on West 43rd and 7th

Fruit stall and graffiti

Funky bulb sign

Statues look out onto the street

On Columbus Circle

Trump's vulgar edifice

Nice old building with lots of balconies

A classic school bus

The statue of Teddy Roosevelt

Cool dinosaur skeleton in the entrance lobby

Fred looks at some shells

In a dinosaur room

The remains of some turtle

A nice skeleton of a woolly mammoth

A Triceratops fossil skeleton

A giant Blue Whale

Fred and Harry in the café

Fred and Harry on the rocks in Central Park

Central Park road

A Blue Jay

Harry and Fred look out over Central Park

Time for ice creams

A duck creates a long bow wave

Turtles in the pond

Harry's not bothered about turtles, it would seem

Harry rolls around on some rocks

The boys in Central Park

Isobel looks out, with her coffee

Nice building on the east of Central Park

Fred leaps about

There are one or two signs on the street

We walk past the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Harry pokes an ornamental pond

Fred and Harry outside the Met

Pigeons on a traffic light

A very bright gold statue

A tourist pony and cart

Sometimes the tiny details can be interesting

Looking down to Times Square

Radio City Music Hall

The view from Phil's office window

The gang look out onto lower Manhattan

The Empire State Building

Looking towards Brooklyn

In the Rockerfeller Centre basement

Mosaic at the bottom of the Rockerfeller Center

Radio City's neon lights

Times Square

Phil piles through the turnstyle in the subway

Back at Millburn station

Futter's in Millburn