Day 1 of 1 in New York

We finally made it into New York today – woo hoooooo!!!!

By the time we got the train from Princeton Junction into New York, it was 10:30 AM. It took about 25 minutes to orient ourselves at Penn Station, when we realized that there was no way we could go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (our No. 1 priority), leave for lunch at Norma’s, then go back to the Museum and still see everything we wanted to see. So we had an early lunch at Macy’s, then took the subway to the Met. OMG were the subway stations hot!!! They were like boiler rooms!

The Met was great. A lot of fantastic, beautiful art in a gorgeous building. Melissa said, “We’re looking at art while walking on art [a gorgeous tile mosaic] and walking in art.” So true.

We were there for 5 hours and probably saw less than half (or maybe just a third) of the displays. And near the end we were racing around trying to see as much as possible.

After the Met threw us out at 5:25 (let me tell you – they’re serious about closing at 5:30, and woe betide the dawdling art-lover!), we walked a few blocks (including along Park Avenue) to La Maison du Chocolat. I might just be ruined for any other chocolate after this.

And then, because we are wusses and had walked since 10:30, we took the train back to New Jersey and ate dinner in the same Indian restaurant in Princeton where we ate last night. So yummy!!!! Like Melissa says, sometimes there’s something to be said for a sure thing.

While at dinner, we started planning our day tomorrow, working backwards from when I have to catch my flight. Just to be on the safe side, we would have to leave New York around 11:30 in order for me to say good-bye to Ethan and catch my flight from Dulles tomorrow night. So instead, we’re going back to Baltimore tomorrow and tooling around there, I think. New York was amazing, but the worry about missing my flight just isn’t worth it.

But I cannot wait to return to that exciting city.