October in Gotham, Our Mini-Manhattan Vacation Part Five

We grabbed a cab from The Tavern on the Green to the Museum of Natural History and bought tickets for the Hayden Planetarium show, "Cosmic Collisions," a  twenty minute NASA produced program narrated by Robert Redford.  Twenty exciting minutes at a cost of $3 million dollars was well worth the price of $22 per ticket.

We checked out several floors of exhibits in the Museum and were entertained with the dinosaurs.  Here is a giant fossil of an extinct giant armadillo type of animal called a glyptodon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptodon

We spent the longest time looking at an impressive exhibition of Northwest Native American artifacts.  Here are a few examples.  I look forward to going back to New York so that I can spend more time in the museums!

 Man carved in wood

Spoons carved in bone

 Native attire

We had enough time to take a cab back to our hotel, grab a quick sandwich, retrieve our baggage and catch a limo back to the airport in New Jersey in order to make our late afternoon flight.

I stretched out with my feet up on the empty leather seat and half-listened as Sam and the driver talked about the apartment the driver had just bought in Romania but my heart was still floating below the towering citadels of magnificent Manhattan.