Weekend plus a fangirl moment
So kind of busy weekend. I've realized that the end of summer is fast approaching and there is a ton of stuff I've planned but not been able to do with my girls! D: Yesterday, we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art .There is this special exhibit I've been wanting to see and it ends 9/1. The exhibit is called Superheroes Fashion and Fantasy and it was great. I wish I had pics but no pictures allowed in special exhibits. They had the hero legend/history and a costume from the film/etc and how it affected fashion/designers takes or even technology (those high end speedo suits that Phelps and co wore)! There was the original business suit/superman outfit that Christopher Reeve wore, Michelle Pfieffer's catsuit, the ironman metal suit from the movie, spiderman, the batman suit, and most weird and fascinating to me the latex pieces that Rebecca Romjin wore as Mystique. Seeing that up close was VERY freaky.
We went up to the roof garden mainly because I wanted to see this big "balloon" dog.
Isn't it great? Angelica was with us but camera shy. lol Before we left the museum we went to see the Temple of Dendur. I really like to see it every time I go. It's a real Egyptian temple that was transported over in the 1960's I believe. there is a matching Egyptian Obelisk standing out in Central Park a few hundred feet behind the museum that was acquired at the same time.
Today we went to Governors Island for a dance festival. This is an island off of Manhattan, near the Statue of Liberty. It's mostly been used as a military then Coast Guard base until the mid 1990's. It was opened to the public last summer but I'd never had the opportunity to go and this dance festival seemed as good a time as any to see it. we saw a few good dance companies. Although all were beautiful, one truly stood out. Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances for a Variable Population. I don't know how to describe it, there were senior citizens doing these touching duets with young, obviously professional dancers. There were about 4 pieces ending in one big group dance consisting of all these different dancers, old, young, thin and obviously plump. It was beautiful. maybe the motto/philosophy behind the piece will explain it better:"Dances for a Variable Population makes concert dances that mix professional dancers with a diverse population ranging from children who think dance is only on MTV to persons with disabilities who thought dance was denied them, to seniors who thought dance was beyond them."
On our way home we had to stop at the supermarket. We went to the one that was between the subway station and home. Angelica and Stacy enter the store ahead of me and kind of just stop. Me, I'm oblivious and continue on to pick up the weekly sales flyer. They both turn to me and tell me to listen. True enough what was playing over the store PA system? Tokio Hotel's Ready , Set, Go. We all hustle into an aisle and have a mini fangirl attack when the song ends. LOL
We went up to the roof garden mainly because I wanted to see this big "balloon" dog.
Isn't it great? Angelica was with us but camera shy. lol Before we left the museum we went to see the Temple of Dendur. I really like to see it every time I go. It's a real Egyptian temple that was transported over in the 1960's I believe. there is a matching Egyptian Obelisk standing out in Central Park a few hundred feet behind the museum that was acquired at the same time.
Today we went to Governors Island for a dance festival. This is an island off of Manhattan, near the Statue of Liberty. It's mostly been used as a military then Coast Guard base until the mid 1990's. It was opened to the public last summer but I'd never had the opportunity to go and this dance festival seemed as good a time as any to see it. we saw a few good dance companies. Although all were beautiful, one truly stood out. Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances for a Variable Population. I don't know how to describe it, there were senior citizens doing these touching duets with young, obviously professional dancers. There were about 4 pieces ending in one big group dance consisting of all these different dancers, old, young, thin and obviously plump. It was beautiful. maybe the motto/philosophy behind the piece will explain it better:"Dances for a Variable Population makes concert dances that mix professional dancers with a diverse population ranging from children who think dance is only on MTV to persons with disabilities who thought dance was denied them, to seniors who thought dance was beyond them."
On our way home we had to stop at the supermarket. We went to the one that was between the subway station and home. Angelica and Stacy enter the store ahead of me and kind of just stop. Me, I'm oblivious and continue on to pick up the weekly sales flyer. They both turn to me and tell me to listen. True enough what was playing over the store PA system? Tokio Hotel's Ready , Set, Go. We all hustle into an aisle and have a mini fangirl attack when the song ends. LOL