More mummies

I have some more pictures of our NY adventure from the last day we spent in the city. We decided to go back to the Met one more time (yes this was 3 days in a row we went to the Met. It is that amazing).

But this day was very exciting because Stephen and Kit came from Connecticut to spend the day with us in NYC. They met us at the museum where we spent a bit of time going through the 19th and early 20th century paintings again, and the Ancient Egypt exhibit, which I believe you could spend a full week in.

Abram taught the cousins some cool things about the ancient Egyptians.

This granite sphynx was very cool to see and very well preserved.

Apparently we have no picture of the full temple they rebuilt inside of the museum, but let's just say you actually feel like you are in Egypt with the way they were able to recreate such a structure. It was really, really stunning.

After the museum we got on the subway and went down to Little Italy. Our intent was to have pizza at Lombardi's, which claims to be the first pizzaria in the US. Regardless of whether that is true or not, they truly had the best pizza I have ever eaten.

Right down the street from Lombardi's is a place called "Rice to Riches." All they have there is rice pudding. Yes, you read that right.

I am not a huge fan of rice pudding. Sure, it's OK. But there are about 30 other desserts I would choose before I would choose rice pudding. Mark, Stephen, Jacob, Ben and Casey decided to have rice pudding for dessert. I went in with an open mind and sampled about 5 flavors, which were all very tasty in a little spoon, but I just could not imagine eating an entire bowl of it, even if it did taste like chocolate or berries.

Kit, Abram, Alison and I all felt the same way and decided to go next door to Pink Berry to get frozen yogurt. But the boys were all happy with their rice pudding of various flavors.

After our trip to Little Italy, we rode the subway north again to the museum, where we said goodbye to our Connecticut family. Don't you think Mark's brother Stephen looks a lot like Mark?

We walked on down Central Park to FAO Schwartz, where the boys had been wanting to go play the Big Piano. We were there right at closing time, and nobody else was at the piano, so they got to play for a while. Turns out that Rachmaninoff's Prelude #3 in C# minor is a little trickier to play on that big piano.