After a car swap, we M managed to drive us into the parking garage of The Museum of Natural History. A sort of knew that we would see dinosaurs, but I guess he didn't know exactly what to expect. He was in the lead, and rounded a corner into the room of the Jurassic era. His eyes widened, and I'd swear that they turned into flashlight bulbs. "Guys!" he said, "Come on!" and he was off to Dinosaur Heaven.
I think at some point M observed that 1) it was my job to photo-document things and that 2) I had a bias against A in favor of things like buildings, flowers, sculptures and architecture. My reply was that I took photos of those things because they actually stood still long enough to be photographed. At which point (Aunt) M commented that, the ratio of blurry A's to non-blurry A's in the previous days' photos was rather high....
We wanted to take (Aunt) M and V out for dinner for all the hard work they did for A's Big Monopoly Party. The plan was to visit Times Square for a moment (A has been listening to "A Cricket in Times Square"). On the way, a man collapsed just on the yellow caution line next to the subway train, so it couldn't move (and they couldn't move the man until EMT's came). Then in an exchange, V & M got into an elevator to spare M's joints from walking up some stairs and the elevator went down to Dante's 9th Circle. It came back.
By the time we actually got out into the light of day, A had fallen asleep on M's shoulders. He awoke on the floor of Toys R Us, a four-story extravaganza with a four-story Ferris wheel, a life-sized animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex, tons of Legos, and a clerk who flew a toy helicopter into M. Twice. We're pretty sure it was some kind of geek-boy flirty thing.
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