Yay! *tackles and hugs flist*

So, I went to Manhattan for about a week, over spring break. Now I want to move to New York. Assuming I don't move to Canada, I mean.



I walked all the way through Central Park, visited Chinatown, went to the Museum of Natural History (twice) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saw the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, got a stuffed animal from FAO Schwartz (I couldn't help it... it was just so adorable), and... uhh... a bunch of other things. You get the idea.

The Museum of Natural History was, well, badass. Especially the fossils and the minerals and gems. And the Scales of the Universe part was sexy. Really. At one point in the exhibit, the Hayden Sphere (87 feet tall) was compared to an entire atom. The proton, compared to that, would be smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. I knew atoms were mostly empty space, but I didn't realize that that much of them was empty space. And meanwhile, a bunch of adults were walking through the exhibit, looking bored and exasperated. How can someone not be fascinated with stuff like that? It's almost equally amazing.

The Hall of Human Origins was cool, too. If they tried to put something like that in Georgia, it'd be burned down on the first day.

Chinatown was pretty interesting. When we first started out, the shops were all terrible -- they had exactly the same stuff, mostly huge fake-looking necklaces and Dolce and Gabbana rip-off purses. By the time we got to the fifteenth shop, it was getting annoying. But once we got deeper into Chinatown, the shops became more interesting and authentic-looking. They had herbs and little bags of strange candy, hordes of carved Chinese dragons and Buddhas, colorful purses and scarves, and even little turtles swimming around in tanks.

I saw two huge toy stores while I was there, as well. The first one was FAO Schwartz, which I adored. It was like a three-story-high wonderland. They had life-sized stuffed animals and a little cafe in the middle of the store. The next store was bigger, but I didn't like it very much. I can't remember its name, in fact... oh well. It was like turbo WalMart. It seemed to be mostly HotWheels cars and trucks, just stuff you'd find in the toy aisle in any big store. The lights were glaring and everything was over-the-top. But on the highest floor, it had a life-sized T-rex that roared at visitors, so that redeemed it. :P

So, anyways, I'm still trying to recover from the trip, even though school starts again tomorrow...



So, how have you been, dear denizens of LJ?