Growth: A trip to Queens!

Yesterday was the first time I experienced how actual Fall feels like. Skylar, JJ , and I rode the subway to our field trip to the Queens Museum of Art. Subwaying it there was such a fun and exciting experience because I could actually see the difference of Manhattan and Queens. Transferring onto the 7 train heading towards Queens/Flushing after getting off the F train onto Bryant Park at 42 street, I could see the immediate change in the environment. Starting from the the change of the amount of people walking on the streets to the speed of everything. It seemed like the cars in Queens were traveling at a much slower and leisurely paced speed than the cars and people back in Manhattan.

There were definitely a lot more trees and nature in Queens. Being able to be in an environment where things seemed a lot more slow and that had so much nature as compared to the busy city of Manhattan was so enjoyable.

I love Manhattan and I am so thankful that I am able to get educated at Parsons in such an amazing city. Nonetheless it was great to visit the suburban environment much like the environment back home.

The Museum was so nice! I enjoyed it even though the weather was very very cold!

The Queen Museum of Art is actually located in a park. So the park and the museum is basically connected and its great because it gives the people who live nearby, a place to go to just relax as well as an awesome museum to visit!

The unisphere!

The museum was currently being expanded so unfortunately we were not able to go inside to look at the wonderful things it had but we were able to see the Panorama of the City of New York and that was seriously so awesome.

The bottom part of the panorama like the little squares are made from urethane foam and the buildings are made from wood, and the bridges are made from metals. It took over 100 model builders and 3 years to put this magnificent panorama together. The scale of it is 1inch for 100 feet and the only thing that is a little inaccurately scaled would be the bridges. The designers wanted to make the bridges a bit bigger in scale because they wanted to emphasize the importance of these monumental bridges.

The panorama is constantly being updated because of the new buildings that are being constructed and there is this thing called Adopt-a-building which is where people could donate to help build buildings!

It was really cool to see a miniature version of New York state!

And here are some beautiful pictures of God's Creation!! So breathtaking and makes me so thankful and happy to know the one who created all the beauties of this earth!!!