While I was in Utah for Trent's wedding Pam told me that she had an exhibit coming up at an event in New York City. It sounded amazing and I invited myself to come along! Pam had already booked her tickets so I knew the dates she would be there. I looked at the calendar and asked Marna if she could join me for a few days before the conference began. It worked out wonderfully!
We started our fun with the Natural History Museum. I didn't expect to love it as much as I did. We made a short list of things we wanted to see in our half day planned there, but we kept saying, "but wait - let's look at that! It's so cool." We watched a planetarium show, bought cheesy/nerdy t-shirts for each other and were wow-ed by the wonders of the earth, sea and sky!
We pried ourselves away because we also wanted to the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art).
The MOMA was AMAZING. I took lots of pictures of the art, but I'll spare you all of those but this one because I took it for Harrison. He had studied Van Gogh in school and I knew he would be impressed that I got to see the real deal. I've been so lucky to see so many of these in person in the last year!
Marna loved the views of the city - the modern and the old together. We looked and loved and we barely got started before they kicked us and the other 100's of people out. There was so much that we didn't get to see there too! We really needed several days to see everything everywhere! This is pretty much how I saw the water lilies... blurred in a hurry as we were booted out!
That night we went to see Wicked. We had great tickets near the front where we could see all of the facial expressions and everything. It was fantastic. I know I'm behind the times, but I didn't know the story or anything so that was so fun for me!
Some of the scenery by our seats.
The next day we walked across Central Park to see the Neue Museum where the Lady in Gold is displayed. It was a very small museum, but still one of my favorites of the week. (maybe they were all my favorites though if I'm being fair.)
Marna left that afternoon and I had a whole day to myself. I had a relaxing day... I got a pedicure, did laundry, read a book and took a relaxing long walk around the area. I read that the restaurant from Seinfeld was close by, so I opted to walk that direction. I saw it, a nice park and Columbia University. Across the street from the church where the conference was being held was the Grant Memorial.
