So this is New York. It's cold, but not too cold. It's full of people and trains and shops and museums and Christmas trees.
At the moment we're staying in Queens with Sarah's Uncle Larry. His car's SatNav has a mind of its own, and is always trying to take us to other places.
Yesterday we visited the American Natural History Museum, which had this great way of explaining the universe. There's an enormous sphere (about 35 m across) called the Hayden Sphere. And you walk around it down a spiral ramp. At the each station on the ramp, there is a comparison, like 'if the Hayden sphere is the size of the known universe, then this marble is the size of the Virgo supercluster of galaxies'. As you move down you get smaller in powers of 10, until the comparison is 'if the Hayden sphere is a raindrop, this (small lump) is the size of a red blood-cell'. It was an amazing way of describing scale and understanding the universe.
Tomorrow is my First Ever Thanksgiving.
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New York! So exciting! I hope you're keeping an eye on the election back home like Justine said you were all going to?
yep! it's 4:41 am and we're all sitting on the couch listening to abc radio. BRING IT ON.
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