Today we went to the Cloisters, a museum full of religious art and artifacts. The museum looks like a church or castle, and its built out of different pieces of churches from Europe. It also had some cute little gardens, with espaliered pear trees. I like the espaliered trees. There was lots of cool stuff in the museum. Religious people make amazing art.

We also went to the Strand, a bookstore in Manhattan that has 18 miles of books. Its a giant used book store, and the organization scheme is a little weird, but it was great fun to explore and look for books.

This ice cream cone is from Carvel. Carvel is a yummy soft serve ice cream parlour (they also have regular ice cream) that I've never heard of before. We go here a lot when we visit. :) I have heard of a Carvel in Texas, sharing a store with Schlotzky's. I haven't tried it yet.