For breakfast this morning we stopped in at Carve,

Carve is a pizza/sandwich shop around the corner. On Sunday as we walked by on our way to Dunkin we noticed that this was a really popular place (line out the door) but apparently only on weekends. So we were able to get a couple of breakfast sandwiches without the long wait.
After breakfast we met the crew in the lobby and headed out to the American Museum of Natural History.

This magnificent museum across Central Park West Street from, well… is perhaps less famous for its significant collections than for its role as the backdrop for the 2006 movie, Night At The Museum.

A highlight of the museum was a room-sized immersive experience focusing on things too small and too large to be seen. Here are a few clips:

Cheryl and I left the museum earlier than the rest of the fam because we had an early afternoon engagement.
Outside the museum was an amazing circus of activity as this street is the staging area for floats for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. And the museum sits on a corner with floats being assembled in front and balloons being inflated on the side.

We paused long enough to watch them attach wings to the figure.

We walked along the street for a few blocks to a subway stop that wasn’t quite so awash in gawkers and headed back to the hotel where we lunched on leftovers before walking over to the Eugene O’Neill Theatre for a performance of Book of Mormon.

While we were at the play the rest of the crew engaged in more age-appropriate sight-seeing.
For dinner we met the crew and walked up the street to Famous Amadaus for by-golly New York style pizza.

Then we returned to the hotel were we hung out with the kids while Chris and Kim took in The Book of Mormon.

So that’s a day.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and another day of adventuring.
Till then,
TTFN.