After playing at Carnegie Hall, we had a few days extra in New York City before heading up to Canada. February 17th, we brunched at a salad bar, I’ve never experience one before, so it took me a minute to figure it out. I got to choose what type of lettuce and the size of my bowl! Then there were all of these other vegetables and other items I could put on my salad, then I got to choose the salad dressing. I really liked this concept, so much so, when I get back home to South Africa, I’m going to tell my cousins about this and see if they’d like to add something like this to their eating establishment.

After the salad bar, some of us headed to the Museum of Natural History, the rest of our party went back to our hotel, which we booked online at this USA website: http://www.hotelsnewyorkusa.com, which we book way in advance when we heard our music group was invited to tour the US and Canada. I’m not a huge fan of museums, and felt I should’ve headed back to the hotel, but I have to admit, this museum was pretty good. There were exhibits on all things natural, but what really captured my heart was the Butterfly room. We walked into this room full of tropical plants and hundreds of butterflies! One even landed on my shoulder! I actually could have stayed in the butterfly room for the rest of the day.

After the museum, we found Central Park and took a stroll, if you can call walking in 30 degree weather a stroll. Before we got to New York, I had in my head what I thought Central Park would look like, but my vision was so off base. The park is so surprisingly peaceful. Manhattan is very fortunate to have a sanctuary right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of a huge city. There were tons of paths to run, walk, jog, ride bikes on. The grass looked too frozen, so we only stayed on the paths.

For dinner, we took the subway, to Little Italy and the food was excellent. I think I’d like to move here, I had no idea I’d have so much fun in a big city, I thought I’d hate it, but it seems I was so off base about that too.

Off-Base Thinking in New York is a post from: Surfing The Channel

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