A day of massive proportions.

Today we had brunch in Central Park... well I'm not sure if you could call a banana and a chocolate chip cookie from a vendor store brunch, but that's what we decided it would be.

Central Park was amazing. I loved it. Claryse said it reminded her of Hyde Park, just bigger and better. She was certainly right about the "bigger" part- it was huge! It houses TWENTY children's playgrounds. There were tonnes of people around but because the park is so big, it didn't feel crowded.

And, most noticeable, it was so GREEN! The trees and flowers and grass looked so alive compared to what ours looks like in Sydney.


After spending a few hours idling away the time enjoying the park, we went to the Musuem of Natural History. That too was massive! It seems America likes doing things on a larger scale here! :)

We looked through displays of American mammals (most of them looked foreign to me so I spent a lot of time reading the little panels beside the dioramas!) and then we went to the Ocean exhibit, where they had a life sized Blue Whale model hanging from the ceiling. Again- huge!

Also, did I mention it was really hot here? Apparently we arrived just in time for the NYC heatwave... like I said, it was a day of massive proportions.