Breakfast in our apartment then I headed across 9th Avenue to the bakery and coffee shop to grab us some coffee.
Back to the apartment as the toilet flushing chain mechanism had broken off last night. We could still flush the toilet but had to dunk our hand into the very cold water that had filled into the top part of the toilet back. Not much fun. I had temporarily managed to fix it by linking the chain with a safety pin to the flushing arm. Sharon had managed to track down the super and he was on his way up to fix it. He was an odd Super named Guido and his English was pretty much non existent. He attempted to fix the flushing mechanism although he also used the same safety pin I had used but after almost breaking it by bending into a straight piece of wire, for unknown reasons, he then attempted to bend it back to a safety pin and tried to 'fix' the chain the same way I had already done but not as effectively.
With the toilet at least flushing we headed out for the subway up to 81st street station in the Upper West Side. We were headed for the American Museum of Natural History. A great museum but turns out we chose a bad day. Absolutely packed, mostly with families with children. It was chaotic and somewhat unbearable at times. Children are insanely annoying.
We saw as much as we wanted and could bear and left the museum into rainy New York wintery weather. We found another great diner on Broadway in the Upper West Side and had a break to get off our feet after 4 hours in the museum.
We then caught the subway back down to 51st Streetin Midwtown and stopped by a supermarket and a drug store for some supplies.
This was our last full day in New York City. Tomorrow night we fly to Paris via Reykjavik in Iceland.
We managed to get most stuff packed up tonight so that will make it easier tomorrow.
Today's Weather
Overcast and rainy.
Maximum Temperature: 54.0 (12.2)
Minimum Temperature: 37.9 (3.3)
