New York - Day 2

We spent a hot day traipsing around New York. I wore my "sensible" shoes, fashion and hipness be damned. Rory is even contemplating walking sandals because his feet got hot.

It was a thoroughly New York day. We woke up and went for a run/walk/sprint in Central Park. (If you aren't familiar with a run/walk/sprint it is when you run for a bit and then you (I mean, I) get lazy and decide to walk, then you (I) feel bad for not running and decide we should sprint to make up for it).

Later in the afternoon we headed to the MoMA. One of Rory's friends happens to work for a corporate sponsor of the museum so we were able to get in for free. Whoa. It was sort of overwhelming how many famous pieces of artwork are housed in that one building. We literally made it through two floors and that was that. Matisse, Rivera, Cezanne, Rousseau, Picasso, Dali, Magritte, Modigliani, Van Gogh, Monet, Mondrian, Kandinsky.... One of the highlights was seeing Umberto Boccioni's Dynamism of a Soccer Player. We have a poster of it at home and it great, but seeing the real thing was really neat.

For dinner we headed to a Chinatown favorite with new and old friends, as well as an adorable, almost-two year old. During the day, said two year old became obsessed with my wallet so the night also entailed a brief bartering session with a vendor over a coin purse that I could exchange for the return of my items. Although she knew she was getting the short end of the trade, once we all plied her with our lose change to fill her new purse it was a done deal.

Again, more pics to follow once we are in possession of our camera