Today, we made our way from Times Square past Bryant Park and the NYC Public Library to Grand Central Station. We now have a new appreciation for that term: Grand Central. Lots of different way to go the wrong way. My trusty iPhone app, however, told us to take the 4 train uptown on Lex and get off at 86th. From there, we still had about a 6 block walk to our final destination--The Met!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was an incredible experience, even though we walked, and walked, and did I mention, WE WALKED! We probably walked about 8 miles today. Pam says 20. She may be right!
Too many works of art to even trey to see in one day, much less mention, but here is a list of some of the artwork we saw: Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Rembrandt, Renoir, Pollack, Warhol, Goya, Picasso, and many, many others we enjoyed. This doesn't even include some of the other artwork we saw, from architecture, to furniture, to Greek and Egyptian pieces of all kinds. There was even a section on musical instruments, which currently featured Ringo Starr's gold-plated snare drum that Ludwig Co. gave him. Pam enjoyed "Blue on a Canvas," which she thinks she could do herself! :)
At a lunch break, we had "dawgs" from a Sabrett stand in front of the museum. Pam also had a very salty pretzel and I had a knish, which was like a fried mashed potato sandwich. During lunch, we were entertained by an African woman who was evidently hot, or perhaps dirty, and she took a bath in a fountain next to us in her clothes while we and several others watched. Interesting.
We enjoyed watching lots and lots of kids at the museum either in groups with a teacher or tour guide as well as on their own having to find certain sculpture and created drawings and take down information. They are in school until June 23rd.
We had to take a bus back to the hotel because of an "investigation" on the exact train we needed, so it took about 45 minutes to get back, but we got to see most of Lexington Avenue shops, residences, etc. After we were dropped off at 42nd and Lex, we walked past a tobaccaria, where we had a nice visit with the manager there whose son is a children's librarian at a public library across the George Washington bridge. He was extremely cordial and kept us entertained while we waited for some renewed strength in our legs--more walking, yes!
After a nap back at the Marquis, we decided to go out for dinner and happened upon Robin Williams in a play, so we took a chance and saw The Bengal of Baghdad, an existential play that was comedic and serious at the same time. Pam and I aren't sure we appreciated the message of the play, if there were one. We sat by an Italian director named Luigi and an actor named Antonio, who wanted us to help translate. Not sure if we could, since the language was not G Rated, which we should have guessed.
After the show about 10, we finally found a place to eat called Brasserie Athenee, a nice French restaurant. Brasserie was just interpreted to mean "bar" by some French girls sitting by us out here in Times Square.
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