Birthdays away from home are always tough, I've had a few now. I was lucky enough to have Timon taking care of me and it all started with bacon and eggs at 10.30am. I received many birthday wishes on Facebook and spent the afternoon snacking and watching stuff. Our new TV finally arrived around 4pm, then we headed downtown to meet up with a lady about a cat. For those of you who know Gandalf, you'll understand the awesomeness of fostering. We found a suitable organisation online and made contact in order to find ourselves a kitty to help. This company operates out of Petco - a big chain of pet supplies in New York. We stood around and looked at all the cats up for adoption, and waited for our 'interview'. In consultation with the boss lady we've decided to foster Toulouse, a gorgeous grey longhaired boy of about 1.5 years. He is very very shy and needs our help to become socialised for adoption. We will pick him up on Saturday and love him to bits. Photos to follow.....
Facebook yielded a birthday dinner suggestion courtesy of IMAXian Sophie Cole and we made our way to Mama Mexico on Broadway and 102nd around 8pm. The service was insanely fast and the sangria was insanely good - meaning that we were home and drunk by 9pm for Bones. Ooh I also got a phone call from England! Thanks Ross!
Because we were confined to the apartment waiting for the TV on my actual birthday we decided to defer the fun stuff to the next couple of days. On Thursday we went to the American Natural History Museum. Mostly to be nosy and assess whether Timon wanted to work there, we paid for all the 'special' exhibitions starting with the Whoopee Goldberg narrated 'Journey to the Stars' planetarium show. It was in one of those cool domed theatres with lean-back seats. Apart from the stiff neck, annoying grind of Whoopee's voice and the terrifying notion of Earth's fragile existence in space, it was cool. Next we found the Butterfly enclosure which was amazing. We took many photos of the kind that will mean nothing in a few years time, but are pretty anyway. The museum itself seems very old fashioned with dark halls of glass fronted displays, stuffed animals and freaky mannequins. Their IMAX Theatre is laughable. We bought tickets to 'Sea-Rex' and the screen was an epic letdown. And it wasn't in 3D. Lame. The museum building is very impressive and grand looking, but the content and presentation was a bit of a snooze. But then I guess it's natural history.....zzzzzzz.
The last of my birthday adventures was a trip to see the Harlem Globetrotters at Madison Square Garden. We had a quick dinner at Ruby Tuesday's in Times Square and doubled back to the stadium. We took the escalators (no ramps here!) up to the gods, which were not nearly as bad as I expected. The stadium was not very full and our view was great! I wasn't sure what to expect, and there were probably more cheap laughs than trick shots, but the whole thing was lots of fun. Definitely the most enjoyable basketball game I've ever seen.
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