It was the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend and this seemed like a day when the traffic to the city wouldn't be bad and the crowds easily handled, so we decided to drive in to the Museum of Natural history parking
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on 84th Street. While we waited for the rest of them to cross the street
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Benjamin
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explored the subway entry and we looked at the park
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that was named
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for Theodore Roosevelt who had a statue
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in front of the museum where they sold balloons.
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We wanted to see the genomics exhibit
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but first we visited the Neanderthals
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and dinosaurs
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and headed off for lunch stopping for the obligatory phone booth picture
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The first restaurant
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had too long a wait so we visited the bubble blowing bear
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on the way to the good pizza place
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where we had these condiments
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and some of the family posed for pictures
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Suzanne went back to the toy store
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on the way back to the museum where this police car
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was parked.