Still moseying around New York

With not an awful lot to to and only a few days to kill, day's were mostly spent watching the 60 inch plasma and drinking Flavio's Pepsi stash and home made biltong. after a few days of more than 100 channels of cable, you settle on your favourites, and then your favourites run out of shows, so it's mostly 'The Girl Next Door', Kardashians, and "The Deadliest Catch' reruns. I was going to add 'The Family Guy' to that list, but Peter Griffin does not get grouped with anyone.

We somehow managed to find time to rip ourselves off the couch and head into the city to do the Natural History Museum. Now I sadly never got to go to the one in London, I know, pathetic. I was only there for six years...

The museum was pretty good with the animal exhibition (mostly African) being my favourite by a long shot. I think it's maybe because looking at the dinosaur skeletons does not really invoke many emotions in me. Possibly the lack of imagination, which in itself is hard to believe with the amount of day dreaming I usually do.

I must say that the exhibition here was not dissimilar to the ones at Cabela's hunting stores around the US. The stuffed carnivores all set up in attack position ready to devour the defenceless prey in their path. Some of them are excellent, like you are stuck in a real life freeze frame, and if I had to show you some of the pictures I took you would thing I was somewhere in the African Savannah or the North American plains.

With all the game viewing we had there, there was sadly not enough time to go to the National Portrait Gallery which was Celia's pick for the day. I thick you might need a day for that on it's own if it is anything like the Louvre or the Smithsonian in Washington (you see how I've listed the only two art museums I've ever been to).

We managed to fit in a couple more walking hours in to the day and went for some great coffee and cakes at 'Le Pain Quotidien' just off central park as well as a world famous hot dog at "Gray's Papaya'. It was a good hot dog, but you understand what I mean when I say how different can you be from your competitor when you are selling a wiener in a roll.. Michael being the the only true American among us, assured me it was a great hot dog.

I did manage to spot the Chris Elliot who famously played Dom Woganowski in 'Theres something about Mary' adding to my celeb spotting total in America to a satisfying '2'.