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That’s a nice way to spend a day, or, several days.
This past Chanuka we visited the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium, went to the observation deck of the Empire State Building, rode the Staten Island Ferry, explored Battery Park (there’s a “step on xylophone” in the park near the ferry terminal that the kids enjoyed), visited the NYC Transit Museum in Brooklyn, the Grand Army Plaza library branch and (last but not least) went to the Big Apple Circus.
The kids balked at a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge (too cold and windy) and the Police Museum in lower Manhattan (too boring).
There’s much, much more to do in the city, but this time people specifically wanted a trip vacation.
A barbecue on a hibachi sounds like fun (and a bit of work for yours truly).
My 7×35 binoculars aren’t much use for stargazing. I tried to watch an eclipse thru them once, but it was a waste of time. (I did “enjoy” the snide comments people exiting a nearby secular entertainment establishment made about binoculars’ uses.) The binoculars were quite useful on the ESB’s observation deck.