Musings from a Utah LDS Housewife: New York Trip day 4

View form our Hotel room in New York, a little roof top garden.

Here it is our last day in New york.

We checked out of our Hotel at about 9:00am. The Hotel was so accommodating. They let us check in early. Then when we checked out they held our luggage for us so we could go play some more before having to be at the airport by 5:30 pm to catch our 7:00pm flight home. So we checked out printed our plane tickets in the hotel left them with our luggage and headed off for the subway to Central park.

It was Sunday this day so I had planned for some quieter things this day. On the list was Central Park, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and more exploring of Rockefeller center.

Central Park was beautiful took tons of pictures. We took a bike taxi ride around it loved it. Then we went back downtown to Rockefeller center and had lunch took pictures of their popular statues watched some ice skating on the famous ice rink. Didn't skate though. Then we headed back uptown to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This building is gigantic on the inside you can see that it is a couple of buildings joined together. The building is beautiful. There was so much to see here that we could not make it through the whole museum with the time we had so we walked around a little bit. I got in trouble because I started taking pictures and the flash automatically came on. That is bad. After seeing some art that we were not particularly interested in and a bunch of naked statues, we decide to get out the map and see if there was something more interesting to us. We decided to check out the 19th and 20th century art and we hit the jack pot. We saw Monets and Van Goh's. Jon recognized some of the paintings from an art appreciation class he took in college and I recognized some from Baby Einsteins and Little Einsteins. Then we checked out some modern art which turned out to be something a child could do (splatters on a wall). There was one exhibit made me think of paint store card samples or a xylophone. It was just big rectangular solid color blocks about a foot apart of different colors. We also saw some Picassos.

We headed back to our Hotel to grab our luggage and get to the airport. As we got back to our hotel right before we picked up our luggage a lady stopped us on the street and asked where the nearest subway entrance was and without really pausing we said “down this street and around the corner”. We felt like we had mastered the subways in Manhattan and enjoyed the chance to answers others questions. We hadn't really mastered them but we were doing pretty good by that last day. One of the fun things about New york was the many means of travel we used to get around. We went by airplane, car (taxi), Train (subway), and Boat (ferry). It was so fun to be able to tell our children that in few days time we used so many different modes of transportation.

We flew to Chicago for a brief layover, ate some yummy deep dish pizza. Even the airport variety was delicious. Jon said it was the best food we had eaten the entire trip (with the exception of a roomservice new york style cheese cake). Then we hopped back on a plane to Las Vegas and our Four Seasons Hotel room which we paid $20.00 for and when we went to check in at 1:00 am monday morning were upgrade to a one room suit. Did not want to leave this hotel. The bed was amazing not too soft not too firm. Perfect.

It was an amazing fun trip one I'm so glad to have experienced with my best friend and love of my life Jon.

We took a picture of this because this is about how many people were at occupy wall street (the same amount lining up for Sunday shopping at the Apple store. (FAO Shwarz was right there as well)