It being a long weekend this weekend, lysimache and I were looking for someplace fun to go. We tried first to find warm places, but all the airfare was too much. But we came up with an excellent plan anyway
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Sounds like a lot of fun. I am giving Jen a standing ovation for the balls, er, courage for driving in Manhattan. I went to Manhattan with m_shell and eruthros when I visited them last May, and we took the train. I was so glad, because that traffic was the worst I have ever seen, and I've driven in the Bay Area, LA, Seattle and Chicago. There was a traffic jam by the New York Public Library, and a police car was sitting, stuck in the middle of the jam, with its lights on, siren blaring, and not moving, because no one could move. It was so awful, I chortled with glee, and walked on past
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The driving when you're coming in from CT is apparently much easier than if you're coming from the south -- there's less than ten minutes of non-highway driving, so we didn't run into that much crazy traffic, which was good.
Word re haughty Bay Area attitude. Everyone is always telling me how wonderful New York is, so I was thinking it couldn't possibly be as great as all that, but we got there and Jen was all "Look, there's the Met!" and wow, that takes up a whole block. Man.
No, we didn't go up to the roof -- it was about 20F out and we'd already checked our coats at the entrance. Maybe if we go again sometime when it's warmer. It was really cool, though -- I'd totally go again.
Blue hippo! Yeah yeah yeah, William the Met mascot; I always think of the amazing (and tragically out-of-print) children's book The Blue Faience Hippopotamus by Joan Marshall Grant.
d way too many impressionists and Degas's bronzes and that pointillism painting
I know exactly which section of the Met you mean :) I love the Impressionists and liked a lot of the ones they had, but I still maintain that MFA Boston has The Best Monet collection.
I was underwhelmed by the Cloisters. (My personal hype was Annie on my Mind.) This is in part because it was a sticky summer when I went.
The book is about *a* blue faience hippopotamus, not the Met one (though I have a stuffed William which I pretend is the one from the book) but it is an amazing book.
[Rereading my comment I realize what was in my head didn't come out all that clearly I meant: "Love for blue faience hippo! Most people think of William the Met mascot, but for me it is all about the beautiful children's book."]
The unicorn tapestry was basically The reason I went to the Cloisters. I think I was expecting more tapestry.
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Word re haughty Bay Area attitude. Everyone is always telling me how wonderful New York is, so I was thinking it couldn't possibly be as great as all that, but we got there and Jen was all "Look, there's the Met!" and wow, that takes up a whole block. Man.
No, we didn't go up to the roof -- it was about 20F out and we'd already checked our coats at the entrance. Maybe if we go again sometime when it's warmer. It was really cool, though -- I'd totally go again.
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d way too many impressionists and Degas's bronzes and that pointillism painting
I know exactly which section of the Met you mean :) I love the Impressionists and liked a lot of the ones they had, but I still maintain that MFA Boston has The Best Monet collection.
I was underwhelmed by the Cloisters. (My personal hype was Annie on my Mind.) This is in part because it was a sticky summer when I went.
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I am, sadly, not a huge fan of the impressionists, but I did really like the horse bronzes.
I'd go to the Cloisters just for the unicorn tapestry, because, yay, unicorn tapestry.
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[Rereading my comment I realize what was in my head didn't come out all that clearly I meant: "Love for blue faience hippo! Most people think of William the Met mascot, but for me it is all about the beautiful children's book."]
The unicorn tapestry was basically The reason I went to the Cloisters. I think I was expecting more tapestry.
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