We still had 4 museums to visit on our NY Citypass. First on the list was the Guggenheim Museum, not to be confused with the one in Bilbao. This one designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Bilbao one by Frank Gehry. Both named after Solomon R Guggenheim, art collector. Like the one in Bilbao, the building was more impressive than the exhibits, though I did enjoy the impressionist sections featuring Cezanne, Monet, and Picasso amongst others.
The interior is a spiral walkway and branching annexes along the way, the featuring artist is on display along the spiral wall. This time it was a guy called Christopher Wool.
I would say his art looks like graffiti on canvas.
WT wanted me to take a shot of this piece of his work, because we have done 2 out of 3. The kids can read, mom!
I got slightly bored and while waiting for the others to catch-up, I decided to look for more interesting art work, and these kinky boots (which is also a Broadway show) seems to fit.
Everyone gave the exhibition their full attention and we made it to the top.
Next it was a walk down 5th Ave, along Museum Row to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This part of the 5th has a whole bunch of museums. It was lunch time, and Catherine lead the way to the cafeteria in the basement of the Met. We covered (meaning ignored) a lot of art in very short time on the way to the cafe.
Catherine mistakenly thought that the child's meal of chicken tender and fries she saw in front of the queue was an adult size meal. So she ordered 2 meals, for Melissa and herself. Turns out these were twice the size of the child's meal she saw and looked like enough food to feed a small African village. American chicken tenders are like a side of chicken in size, and chef miscounted, giving Melissa 7 instead of 5 pieces and Catherine only got 6 pieces.
Tessa and I, after finishing our normal-sized plate of pasta, had to help. But there were still left-overs even after we valiantly tried using a non-surgical stomach extension procedure to accommodate 4 meals in one sitting.
The chef made the above model of the museum frontage from sugar (in between cooking large meals).
The Met is the largest museum I have ever been to. They have everything, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, American, European, Asia and Pasifika. Almost sounds like a food court. It has 2 restaurants and a bar (not including the cafe) that I saw.
The building itself is within Central Park along 5th Ave. So you could see the park from the back part of the building. Sunday closing was 5.30 pm, so we were ushered out at 5.15pm. There was no chance of seeing all the exhibits, but we made a good effort. And WT didn't have time to browse and buy anything from the museum shop even though 50% discount signs beckoned.
We took a walk into Central Park after this. It was icy and slippery.
Snow ploughs made mini snow hills on the side of the roads.
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The only planned activity today was for Tessa, Melissa and Catherine to go to Woodbury Commons Premium Outlet shopping about 80 km north of Manhattan. It was raining and snowed a little. They took a shuttle bus tour which, after all the pick-ups, took 2 hours to get there. They shopped till 5 and returned to Chinatown where I met them and took the subway home.
Proof of purchases for the day.
WT and I didn't have any plans, nor did we want to spend all day at the Premium Outlet. So we wandered around Lower Manhattan and bought a couple extra suitcases to accommodate all current and future purchases.
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