Last few days in NY

Getting our money worth out of the last monthly unlimited subway card and vising places that we will miss has been on our to do list. We made another trip to the Natural History Museum and explored the geological collection.
Sonia loved the rocks. I hoped to see some Ural treasures but found just a few samples from USSR in the gem exhibit. I guess this section was built during the cold war era therefore lack of representation. Plenty Brazilian marvels there.We ran through the evolution section on our way, noting the arrival of conscious beings. I think they are cute ;-) I like their fur coats.
Sonia also enjoyed the funky Christmas tree with, horses, dinos and rotating stars. She couldn't take her eyes of it even for a moment.
Yesterday we had to stop by the Met. Our main object was Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche.
Twenty-foot blue spruce with a collection of 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs among its boughs and groups of realistic crèche figures flanking the Nativity scene at its base just simply takes your breath away.
I wish for a tree like this one... wait how would I move it? Jeremy laughed and said "people who posses these kind of things never move." I especially enjoyed the everyday scenes with animals and people and how realistic and at the same time decorative they were. Sonia is grown up and handles our museum trips with much more interest. She loved paintings and really wanted to touch some of the precious art objects.
We ended our day at a friends house with sushi feast. Thank you, Ben and Yuki, for a real treat... Yuki is from Japan and she taught me how to do the rolls so we might be making more sushi at our house soon.