Today was another day where we decided what we wanted to do after we filled up on breakfast.
We headed further north-northeast into Queens to start at the Botanical Gardens. It was supposed to be free, with a suggested donation. To our surprise, today was their Harvest Fest, so it was paid entry. We’re perfectly okay with supporting the Botanical Gardens, so we just ended up with some added fun in the end.
We started with a short walk through the rose, perennial, and herb gardens. Of course, I had to stop and take ALL of the pictures.
Unfortunately, being mid-late fall, many of the blooms were done, but there were still many roses, dahlias, and other late-bloom flowers.
With the fest going on, there were multiple informational tents, as well as food tents, and crafts and activities for the kids.
We then took a pretty decent walk through Hoover Promenade. There were a LOT of soccer games going on. This jaunty trek took us to the grounds of the World’s Fair.
It seems like much of their museum is updated with new artists and content. The only constant exhibits (it seemed) were the giant map of NYC and the memorabilia and artifacts from the two World’s Fairs.
Special exhibits that we saw included were an exhibit about Tiffany’s beginnings and methods, and a Rube Goldberg exhibit, with the story of his beginnings, major life works and events, and many original examples of his work.
The scale is 1:1,200, it covers 9,335 square feet, and it includes 895,000 individual structures.
Among these structures is a set of tiny airplanes that land and then take off again (if you look carefully at the big image, just northeast of center you can see the little holes in the airport where the plane lands and takes off.)
I had to use my superfish lens to get the entire map in one picture, hence the warping. I threw on a close-up of south Manhattan for some detail context.
The hanger was setting in us both, and Adam had been wanting a bagel all week (or so he tells me). We find him a sesame bagel, and then an Italian place a couple of blocks down for me. Ziti and meatballs. Mmmmmm….
Back to the hotel to drop off leftovers and figure out what our late night snack was going to be.
We settled on Mango Crepes & More and headed back out to the subway.
Both were supposed to come with chantilly cream, but they misunderstood when we requested none on Adam’s. I ended up not getting any either. I was quite sad about this. Either way, it was really good.
However, I must say that I still haven’t had one that compared to the ginormous one that I got the night we went from Oahu to the Big Island and stopped at a little weeknight market (it was more like a crowded festival) on the way to the cottage.
We headed back to the hotel for the night. Tomorrow is our last full day in the city before we fly home on Tuesday.