This is the Museum subway stop...
The cool museum...
And look who we got to PLAY with at the museum!!...the most awesome Laricchia's (well, some of them...)!!
We were excited about seeing this exhibit:
Journey to the afterlife through the mystical Book of the Dead of Amen-em-hat. Books of the Dead are funerary manuscripts created by Ancient Egyptians during their lifetime, containing instructions to help the deceased in the afterlife. Learn about the haunting “weighing of the heart” judgment ceremony, the mysterious gods Amen-em-hat would meet, and the magic spells that would keep his soul safe as he journeyed through the Underworld.
Lissy kept telling us that she had to show us the BEST thing in the entire museum...a window shade (which she aptly named *Shady the Shade*). NOT part of the museum exhibits, mind you...but an actual shade on a window in the museum. We were like, "Yeah, yeah...OK...let's go see your shade..." But, WOW!! She Was SO Right (of course she was!)!! It was SO cool and awesome and was a light-capturing-shape-shifter!!
Our time together was too short...and so we walked to the subway station and said good-bye...until we meet again in Niagara Falls in JUNE!!
We arrived back in the hotel just as Dave was finishing up w/his conference, and we headed to a restaurant where we had reservations...an incredible Italian restaurant called Kit Kat Italian Bar and Grill...
Oh.My.God. Favorite restaurant meal EVER. (I know...I say that a *lot*!!)...
My honey took this...
MMmmm...grilled calamari...
I'm still dreaming of and wanting this osso bucco...
So how do you top off too much deliciousness and too much beautiful wine? With *more*, of course! A couple of after-dinner drinks...
...and some palate-cleansing lollipops...
Our walk back to the hotel was the silliest walk EVER!!..
Sam's shot from our walk back...
And it didn't end there...we proceeded to the hotel pool where Dave, Jake and Sam had a wonderful time swimming together (the pool was indoors, but a portion of it extended *out*doors, so it was very cool...
What a glorious, glorious day...
