After a nice sleep in, I headed onto the streets by around 11am. (Prue had been more active than me and was already off doing her own exploring.) I caught the subway up to 81st street, and spent a few hours at the American Museum of Natural History. The exhibits here were great - definitely worth the $25 admission fee, and then some!
After the museum, I headed straight into central park for a couple of hours of strolling. I stopped at the Bethseda Fountain to admire one of my favourite statues in the city. The rest of the park was lovely. Such an escape from the city, and despite the masses of Saturday tourists it was still very peaceful in a lot of parts. 
I came out from the park at Fifth Avenue, and walked along here for a few blocks before cutting west at Rockefeller centre and going back to the hotel via Times Square.
For dinner, Prue and I caught the subway down to Chelsea/Greenwich Village area ready to find some great food. We cast our opinion based on a number of key factors:
- Number of people already dining at the restaurant (indicating how popular it was... Always a good sign)
- Menu (while I'm fairly open to trying anything new and exciting food wise, the glazed bone marrow is a little bit too pretentious for my tastebuds at this point in time...)
- Price. Of course. I like to get good "bang for my buck" ... Oh wait that sounds like we were looking for strippers. Ew.
Anyway, we finally resolved on a busy Mexican restaurant, where we could sit outside and sip delicious margaritas while watching the world go by. It also happened to be just across the street from the famous Stonewall Inn - a point of personal historic interest for me as the 1969 riots here pretty much began the modern gay rights movement. 
Near where we had dinner, we also saw the 'Tiles for America' memorial - one of the original 9/11 Memorial sites.
Another successful day done, it was time for some late night reality TV on E!, then lights out.
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