New York part 2

Yesterday was a big day on our feet, although we didn't start until after lunch. We walked by the NY Public Library, Empire State Building, and then down to Wall St and the financial district. Trinity Church is just over 300 years old (well, at least in part), and is now surrounded by huge sky-scrapers. Nik & I spent a fair bit of time inside, including looking at a photography exhibition. An interesting and thought provoking session :-)

Then after some wandering around down to the East River and Central Park again, we went up to the Museum of Modern Art. We went not really knowing anything about it (except that it was free entry after 4!), and not knowing what they had on display. We ended up spending a good couple of hours there, and saw, amongst others, artworks by Picasso, Dali, Frida Kahlo, Peit Mondrian, Edvard Munch, van Gogh (The Starry Night!!), Matisse, Cezanne, Seuat, Jackson Pollock, Andy Wahol, and to top it off, Monet's Waterlilies. A feast!! I'd highly recommend it if you're visiting NY.

We went out for breakfast this morning to a "diner" in Greenwich Village (waffles, bacon, eggs etc and then walked through SOHO and along Canal St which runs through China town and was packed with people doing Chinese New Year stuff. Back to the hostel for some downtime before we fly out to Mexico at 12:50 am tonight (fun!). Looking forward to it though :-)

Some photos:



Monet's Waterlilies




LOVE!




Trinity Church, Wall St

New York

Hi!

Well we're 3 days in, and are fully enjoying it :-) 13 hours of flying to LA (after leaving an hour and a half late) we transited in LA for a couple of hours. The LAX staff did a reasonable job of presenting the stereotypical gruffness American customs and immigration people are known for :-P A couple of hours later we caught the same plane (we think) on a flight to NY. Once in NY we used the subway to get to our hostel and subsequently crashed.

New York was covered in snow when we arrived, and it snowed most of Tuesday too, which makes for some picturesque scenery. Specific highlights so far (for me at least!): walking through Central Park in the snow, the Bronx Zoo, eating NY Pizza, watching the New York Knicks play the Chicago Bulls at Madison Square Gardens (complete with the big screen proposal). Other memorable things are stuff like riding the subway, wandering around China Town (including the fastest sit down meal we've ever had), ice skating in Central Park, Times Square, Ground Zero, buying American food etc.

Tonight we went and saw Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, which was amazing. We lined up in the freezing cold for a good hour and a half to get tickets, but it was well worth it :-)

Generally I think we're feeling pretty good, although spending most of the day on our feet is taking its toll. Looking forward to a week in Mexico next week!

Here are some photos to finish! I'm hoping to post 3 from every day, which I hope means I'm more careful about what photos I take. Not sure if that's been true yet. There are more photos on my (Alex's) Facebook page.



16/2 Nik in Central Park



16/2 Me in the John Lennon memorial in the Strawberry Fields



16/2 Grand Central Station



17/2 Madison Square Gardens - Knicks v Bulls




17/2 NY Pizza!




17/2 Three stooges




18/2 Times Square




18/2 Lady Liberty



18/2 Times Square #2