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The last few days of our stay in Manhattan involved more predictable sight-seeing. We made a run down Museum Mile and stopped in at the Cooper-Hewitt and, of course, at the Met. The Cooper-Hewitt was great. Small but interesting and housed in Carnegie’s impressive former fifth-avenue mansion. The Met was entirely intimidating. We bobbed along happily for a few hours, the Temple of Dendur was especially grand, but it’s an incredible amount of stuff to take in. After a few hours it all starts to blur.

Trinity Church was also very cool, especially the graveyard. I wish we could find the text of a particularly pleasing monument in the graveyard. The inscription, written in the 19th century, was sure to explicitly mention how becoming the monument was.

We were more careful to eat modestly after our adventure at Aquavit. George took us to an Italian place near Columbia with some of his architect crew (Julia Stiles didn’t make a return appearance, sadly). Ben and Janet took us to a Korean BBQ place near Korea Way (32nd) which was some of the best food we had all weekend. Big Nick’s was a fun dive diner which brought the added benefit of being seated between German and what sounded like Norwegian tourists.

Alice asked me to be sure to point out that her big exciting pretzel was actually indistinguishble from a nasty hot dog by taste. We guessed that it had been stewing in hot dog run-off all day which is not something that any bread product should do.

All in all, a great trip.