Pam and I had a day and a half to experience the city before our conference began. We visited the Met Bauer first. The top floor was a retrospective of Lygia Pape from Brazil. I really enjoyed seeing all of her variety of work and how she expressed herself. I especially loved her use of color, line and form. The final piece of the exhibit was a fantastic installation of copper wires.
Afterward we hit the main building of the Met. We were meeting a friend of Pam's there and had very little time. At the recommendation of a stranger in a shared Lyft ride we went to see the Chinese exhibit first. Pam and I both really wanted to see the modern area, but there was so little time (again!).
This was my favorite of the whole thing... the cool bird thing that captured the smoke from burning incense so that it wouldn't fill up the room.
The other area we visited was the Egyptian section. I certainly didn't expect to see a pyramid tomb inside the museum, but there it was!
Pam remembered being inspired previously by the sheets, so we hurried to find them again. Here she is with our new friend Annie Poon.
We rushed over to the church so that we could be there for the set time to set up Pam's exhibit. It turned out that they were nowhere near ready for us and we were very disappointed. It meant that we had rushed out of the Met for nothing and were now just standing around. We did the little bit that we could that day, but learned that we would have to come back the next day to set up and miss out on more of our museum time.
We hit a broadway show that evening called Bandstand. We both really enjoyed it and Pam was even a little touched by it, maybe because of her mission call to serve with the military in South Korea.
The next day we visited the Guggenheim. Amazing.
That night we had our "mocktail" party. We got all fancied up and went back to the church for the donor's reception. For some reason being dressed up made me shy. I wanted to let Pam mingle and so I just sat down on my own for a bit. A sweet lady that I'd met earlier in the day (sister Bushman) came over and sat with me and we were friends for the rest of the conference.
President and sister Uchtdorf were there as she was on the board. That was a treat!
The next two days were filled with fantastic speakers and more ideas than our minds could process. A few of the highlights for me were the reading from Steven Peck from his book Gilda Trillium: Shepherdess of Rats,"
