New York - Day Three

We began the day with breakfast at Balthazar's in Soho. Shiong joined us, as well as Wendy (visiting from Sydney).



After breakfast we did a quick tour of the New York Museum of Natural History. Highlights were dinosaur exhibition, a great photo exhibit of some Apollo shots on the moon's surface, several skeletons of early man, and this life-sized model of a Blue Whale.



Then it was down to docks at Pier 43 for a cruise around Manhattan Island.









After the cruise there was just time to grab dinner and a fantastic Malaysian restaurant that served authentic Assam Laksa... a dish that is a Penang specialty (different to mainland Laksa) which Nat has had once before in 20 years. She was very happy!



We then spent the evening the Jazz Club 'Birdland', where it was 'Cuban Big Band' night.

We were back at JFK airport at 6:00 am Monday morning for the long flight home.. thankfully the inflight movie system survived this time so I got to finish watching 'The Flying Scotsman'.

We got home at about 10:45 pm Monday night... at which point I was ready for a holiday!