But.....here it is...what you've been waiting for. Our 3rd day in marvelous NYC!
Day 3 started a little late. It was a Monday morning and we needed to use the subway into downtown. We didn't want to compete with all the commuters on the subway.....so we opted in for sleeping later and then hitting the subways once everyone was at work.
So after a late night.....getting up at 9am was heaven. After showers we headed off to Starbucks to fill Paul up with his daily gas.
First destination was.....The Museum of Modern Art, or lovingly referred to as MOMA. I don't care if you are an artsy person or not.....being in a building that contained masterpieces by people such as Van Gogh, Warhol, Picasso.....etc. is humbling. It's also very amazing to see what people are paid for claiming their "masterpiece" is art. Seriously, I should go into the art world....I could make a killing gluing cotton balls on a piece of burlap!
I apologize in advance. We couldn't use our flash in the museum and we're not very good photographers without our flash (or with our flash), so it makes our photos blurry. So don't adjust your computers.....it's just our pictures!
Starry, Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. Probably the most famous painting in the building.
An art critic at work.
I personally prefer the weird things.....such as this one, where they use real things to make it seem like a masterpiece!
I found this view outside one of the windows in the museum. NYC had some warm weather for awhile and the city was beautiful with all the budding trees and flowers. It truly was a beautiful place to visit.
The next stop after MOMA was to Rockefeller Center! We chose our "aerial" view of NYC to be from the Top of the Rock rather than the Empire State Building. So after a walk down 5th Avenue (you know the street with all the designer stores), we made it to our destination.
Right across the street from Rockefeller Center was St. Patrick's Cathedral. I could have taken pictures for an hour and never really captured the beauty of this church. The whole entire building is sculptured and breathtakingly beautiful. What a majestic church it is.
BUT......before we were to venture to the Top of the Rock.....it was necessary for us to eat some lunch.....or breakfast???? The meal of choice was a New York Deli where we feasted on some kind of NYC sub with pastrami and corned beef and a yummy tortollini and pesto salad. Always have to enjoy the local flavors!
The view from the Top of the Rock was spectacular!
While at Rockefeller Center we got to see that famous Ice Skating Rink and the Today Show studio where all the people stand outside and wave like idiots. If we had been up early enough.....I would have been there too :-)
Here's the empty studio. We got there a little late ;-)
Right down the street from Rockefeller Center was the Radio City Music Hall. Had no desire to visit it other than snap a picture......because after all, it IS the place where the Rockettes perform. So while Paul is snapping that picture, he sees the sign above me.....ha ha.....hilarious!
Ok....by now we are tired and we've done lots of walking, but we heard the New York City Public Library is a spectacle to behold. So marching back down 5th Avenue to the Library.
It really was a place of beauty and unfortunately because we had to have the flash off....most of the pictures were blurry. It is not like ANY library I have ever seen before in my life and the woodwork, architecture, and paintings are unlike any I'll probably ever see again. Simply a beautiful place.
After our quiet visit to the library, it was off to Times Square to see what Broadway show tickets we could get for that night. We had finally graduated to the BIG time and were ready to see our first Broadway show. As we waited in line, they had expert people to answer your questions.....so we asked....we wanted to make sure that we were going to see the absolutely best show that we could in our one-time shot at it. While Paul doesn't care much for all musicals.....and I do.....the decision was difficult. But the grand prize winner was Ghost!
We loved the show. Our seats were excellent. We think we made an awesome choice!
After we left the show, we were walking around 42nd street area looking for somewhere to eat when I had my FIRST CELEBRITY sighting. She was standing outside a theater that had just let out and it was.......Christine Baranski! Ok....I know she might or might not be familiar to you.....but it was a real life celebrity. In fact, we even walked back and looked at her again to make sure. It was.
I would have taken a "real life" picture of her to prove it was her, but I didn't want to act like paparazzi or a fan stalker....so you're just gonna have to take my word for it.
So after scouting out some places in the area.....we made the decision to hop on the subway and hit up the local pizza joint near our hotel (there was really about 3 local pizza joints near our hotel). Paul has been bugging me for years about eating a Sicilian pizza and I finally relented. I'm really not big on a lot of crust on my pizza......but OMG (Oh my God).......eating that delicious pizza at midnight in the middle of our tiny hotel room was one of the highlights of our trip. That pizza was AMAZING.
We finally had to call it a night......because the next day was going to be our last day and we really wanted to make sure we did everything we could. Day 3 was fantastic and I loved spending every minute of it with my wonderful traveling buddy!
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