Day 5 in NYC

Luckily Monday was a holiday, so Megan got to spend the day with me. Sisters! Aww..

Well I hadn't seen the Statue of Liberty yet, so, DUH we had to go. We took the Staton Island ferry because it's free (I heart free stuff). It goes by the Statue of Liberty, but not to the actual island. That one costs a load of dough. It was cold and snowy, but we saw Lady Liberty!

Here is our view from the ferry of Downtown Manhattan. See the ice chunks floating? Cold!

Ellis Island. I'll go there next time.
Me and Lady L
My favorite sister. The SOL (Statue of Liberty, guys) was behind us, but is obviously invisible.
Then we walked to the South Street SeaPort and saw all the super cool colonial buildings and streets. They have that exhibit where you can see real bodies, muscles etc...but we didn't go. Plus Megan said she's heard some sketchy things about where/how they got the bodies. Has anyone seen it?

Here's me in front of a great view of the Brooklyn Bridge.

We went to lunch at this little Italian cafe, and my sandwich was sooo good. Actually, the best thing there was the tiramisu. Probably the best I've ever had, including the tiramisu we go the next day in Little Italy. I'm feeling a craving coming on...

We made it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like the Museum of Natural History, this place was just gigantic. There was no way I was going to see all of it, especially in the 2 hours before Daniel was coming to pick us up.

I saw lots of Renaissance paintings including an exhibit on erotic art during that period...um...those artists were really really perverted. It was pretty funny. Some pieces, it was like, oh okay, I see it now with the squash shaped like a ____, but then SOME were like HELLO! I won't post any pictures...

Then I saw some Monets and Picassos and Megan was like, let's go it's almost 5 and you haven't seen the Egypt room! So we literally ran and thanks to her genius ran to the farthest back we could get, so that when we got kicked out for closing time, we could still see everything on the way out.

Here's in at the entrance of the room. It's pretty huge. I know I'm not smiling in this one. It's because I'm hardcore.
There's basically a moat around the display of a tomb that was pretty much picked up out of Egypt and placed in the museum. It was sooo cool, the photos can't describe it.
See, there's the tomb.

Someone drew all this thousands of years ago, and I was RIGHT there.


Me and the little SphynxYou can see those statues of gods against the wall.
This is just showing the scale of the height of the room I guess.
And then it was closing time and we had to skidaddle out of there, and just as planned, quickly skimmed the rest of the Egyptian artifacts on the way out.

Here's the entrance to the museum in it's architectural glory.
And lots of people leaving.
We went to Dinosaur Barbecue that night. It was pretty tasty, and I have to admit the western decor reminded me of home. I missed the hickness of Northern Utah.

Here's the crazy poster that hung behind me.