NYC

Hello all. Sorry for the long delay between posts.

Well, I've made it to the very last stop on my Grand Shapesnatching Tour. I came to New York to ShapeCam some casts at the American Museum of Natural History, seen here:



Everything at the museum went really well, and I was able to fill in some leftover blanks in my sample. Very happy about that. Also happy that I can finally exhale now because no equipment exploded on this trip, I didn't get my camera stolen by Belgians, and I still have a little credit left on my visa card ;)

Remember what I said about Vienna in December? That I could totally live there and be happy forever? Um, could I scratch that and substitute NYC instead? This city is amazing. I've been here before, but that was approx 15 years ago and almost another lifetime. Let's all live here in NYC together and play in the parks, walk across the bridges, gawk at all the interestingness on the streets, and hang out in cool cafes. Okay? It'd be fun. I promise. (But what's with all the Starbucks everywhere? There's one at almost every corner. It's worse than Tim Horton's in Canada. Seriously.)

Up until today, the weather has been really great. Saturday was sunny and really warm, no jacket needed. At first I felt guilty about enjoying all the global warmth, but I've since been reassured that it's not necessarily a sign of environmental doom. Hope that's true.

Views from Battery Park:





Cool sculpture outside of Trinity Church:



The Dakota building for Rachel:



View of Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge:



A wedding on Brooklyn Bridge:



Sunset over the Statue of Liberty:



Lincoln Center at night:



Prospect Park in Park Slope, Brooklyn:



Central Park after today's rain finally stopped:



Today Ivanka Trump walked past me on the street. She's really tall, but she looked very unhappy. Maybe it was because everyone was staring at her. That must suck. I felt bad for her, but then I remembered how rich she is, and that she gets to live here and go shopping whenever and wherever she wants. Thinking that made me want to go shopping. (Yeah, ok, it really doesn't take much to make me want to go shopping ;) Sigh. I guess there's a good reason I only have a little credit left on my visa card...