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New York Trip, January 2010
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Packed for a week in New York!
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Crossed a lot of snowy country.
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Linda's Dad and his little brother.
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Our first White Castle experience ... ever!
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Took a walk behind Aunt Ping's house. It was very cold that day.
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Some old school friends came to Linda's Dad's birthday party.
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Cousin Willis & Linda
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Tables set at Jade Asian Restaurant.
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First Course was a lobster with noodle salad.
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Linda's Dad blew out the candles before anyone could get a photo.
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Linda's Dad, his brothers and sisters.
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Mahjongg at youngest uncle's house.
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Went to a Korean/Chinese restaurant for lunch.
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Linda's cousin and aunt from Taiwan.
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We all chipped in for lottery tickets. We did not win.
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Our first indication of Manhattan. Surprisingly, there was not an excessive amount of honking for such a big city.
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Linda's eldest Aunt's home on the shore.
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Things were kind of frozen.
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View from our hotel room in Manhattan.
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We were in the garment district, technically. Just south of Times Square.
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First night dinner at Babbo - one of Mario Batali's restaurants.
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Hot dog and papaya milk from Gray's Papaya.
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We went to visit the American Museum of Natural History.
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They have a lot of dioramas, but nothing really alive...
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A lot of meteorites. This is the largest on display anywhere in the world.
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The oldest building has a very impressive collection of northwest artifacts.
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This is a cloth spun from the silk of golden orb spiders in Madagascar.
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This is part of Alfred Russel Wallace's personal collection of natural history objects.
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They had a lot of gemstones on display.
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Including several star sapphires.
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Also a very nice collection of fossils.
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T-rex.
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The Willamette Meteorite, originally found near Portland, Oregon.
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We stopped to check out the location of Per Se restaurant, where we were going to take Linda's Dad for his birthday.
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We also briefly walked in Central Park.
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Tavern on the Green is closed, but apparently still doing some private functions.
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Linda's Dad's birthday dinner at Per Se.
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Had to check out New York bagels.
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Visited the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.
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They had some display of little houses made from natural materials.
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Amorphophallus gigas about to bloom.
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On our way to see a musical....
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A Little Night Music with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury.
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Magnolia Bakery is made famous by a TV show.
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It wasn't really all that special.
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Went up to the top of Rockefeller Center.
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