Another attraction on Staten Island is the Jacques Marchais Tibetan Museum, but before we visited it, we had a delicious lunch..........

At a restaurant called Tugs! Before you blame me for ruining this photo of Keeks with an unappealing filter, be assured that the picture was really never any good. Tugs is famous for it's steaks and it's huge glass windows with a view of........................

Tugs! It was a really interesting lunch watching the comings and goings of a busy working harbor...............

An amazing lighting fan set up on the ceiling of Tugs...................

A busy barge............

After some intelligent navigating around Staten Island by our driver, Francesca, we found the Tibetan Museum in a residential area of the hills.......................

The museum was filled with many Tibetan treasures..........................

All collected by a great lover of the Tibetan culture............

This sculpture is of the patroness.....................

Another goddess.....................

A Mandela made out of colored sand............................

A beautiful bronze.................

One of several photographs of the Tibetan people. Unfortunately, we found out that no photographs were allowed in the museum, so I only got a small sampling before finding this out............

Enamel ware...............

The white haired man in this photo looks suspiciously like our old custodian at Santa Fe High, Ignacio Rodriguez. Maybe he ended up high on Mt. Everest......................

Outside photos were allowed, like this monkey in the Lilly garden............

A serene Buddha..................

And a pond for reflection................

Goodbye to the Tibetan Center...................

How'd you like to live in a little dollhouse like this neighbor to the Tibetan Museum high on a hill in Staten Island?....................

We're headed back on the beautiful Verazano Narrows Bridge.......................

Like the folks in that airplane over the bridge, we're outta here!! So it's goodbye to Staten Island, we have BIG plans in Queens tonight!