Hotel checkin wasn't until 3pm so we dropped our bags and tried to stay awake exploring Manhattan.
We had bought a New York city pass that included the hop-on-hop-off bus so we got our passes and decided to take it easy on the bus tours...
Unfortunately, being as tired as we were, we never managed to stay awake on the bus... Oops!!
We hopped off at Central Park and were looking for a nice spot under a tree to have a nap for a couple of hours but there was some street marathon on and people everywhere so there wasn't a quiet spot to be found... So back on the bus to fall asleep again...
After doing an uptown loop we had a drink at Starbucks and went back to the hotel.
Part of 8th Ave near our hotel was closed because there was a street market/fair. Lucky us... was fun to walk around and look at all the stalls.
Part of 8th Ave near our hotel was closed because there was a street market/fair. Lucky us... was fun to walk around and look at all the stalls.
With a little bit of time to kill, I decided to go visit Gunther Von Hagens' human body show. He is a German anatomist I have seen on tv and he is famous for inventing the technique of preserving the body called plastination. As an anatomy major, I enjoyed seeing the dissections. There is one specimen where they dissected and preserved the venous blood vessels. Sooo cool!I wasn't allowed to take photos except for one specimen of a man on a horse.
The hop-on-hop-off bus tours includes a night tour of Brooklyn. They decided to put on some fireworks for us which was much appreciated!
We passed one of the coolest clocks I have ever seen... I did really like it... call me quirky...The numbers look like gibberish...
Here's how to read the clock:
- it's 20:12:1392046 - 8:12:1392046 seconds
- it's 03 hrs and 47 mins until the end of the day.
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