A few random observations from this trip:
1) it’s really awesome when kids are eager to learn.
While we walked around the Natural History museum in the planetarium there was a family talking with one of the guides about the Big Bang. The daughter, who was maybe 8 or so made the very awesome observation (and came to the conclusion before her parents did) that “asking ‘What happened before the Big Bang?’ is like asking ‘What’s north of north?'” Learning is cool 🙂
2) the old saying of “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” is still true
Riding the subway back from the Bronx Zoo a trio of teenaged skateboarders came on board. One guy was limping badly and was pretty banged up and I kind of wrote it off as he was just doing dumb stunts on his skateboard with his buddies but then one of his friends pulled out a “Tribeca Film Festival” Crumpler-brand camera bag and pulled out a Nikon digital SLR camera and started going through the action shots he had taken of his friends doing tricks on their skateboards. The few I saw were pretty good. So yay for finding a budding skateboarding photographer.