It was another glorious day in NYC. The sun was shining and the temperature was warmer than yesterday, however brisk. Today we repeated the subway trip we took yesterday, from Newark to Penn Station and we once again took the C-line subway to 81st Street. We crossed in front of the American Natural History Museum and walked across Central Park to the Upper East Side.
Where did we go?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art!!!!!!!
We started out in the Roman Empire...
Roman Pottery
She was one of my favorite Roman Sculptures...her expression really captured me.
This was also one of my favorites, the detail was incredible
I love the expression of this little Roman boy
From the Roman Empire, we moved onto the Egyptian Pharaohs. I loved this exhibit. I have never been so close and even able to touch the Egyptian Statutes. Simply enchanting!
I look so small compared to the Egyptian sculpture. So close I could even touch it!
This Egyptian "fresco" of pigeons or doves was beautiful
Wow!
The sarcophaguses were impressive, however the lighting in the room and the cases were not photo friendly. So this was the only picture we were able to get.
From the Egyptian Pharaohs we moved on to the Byzantine Empire.
The art was incredible!
This Byzantine painting of the Archangel Gabriel was exquisite and one of my favorites
After the Byzantine Empire we moved on to the Medieval Times where we saw beautiful stained glass and knights armour and swords.
The statue of St. Catherine of Siena was entrancing, one of my favorites of the day. I absolutely loved it although I can't explain why.
After spending all day at the museum, there were still exhibits we didn't see, the American Wing, the European Masters and paintings and the African art. Unfortunately, although we wanted to see the Asian exhibits they were not wheelchair accessible. We could easily spend another day to see the museum and even then we would need more time.
After the museum, we walked back to the Upper West Side and headed to 70th and Columbus for dinner at a hole in the wall restaurant called Big Nick's. It seats probably 20 people, with a huge menu of pizza, heroes and submarine sandwiches and burgers. We ordered an appetizer platter to share and Peter had a huge bacon cheese burger with fries and I had a fabulous veal parmigiana hero.The veal was so tender and flavorful. All this and 2 bottles of Coke for $35.
We left the restaurant and walked down Columbus, past Trump Tower to the Columbus Circle Subway Station. We hopped on the C-line back downtown to Penn Station and once again took the PATH back to Jersey. We got back to the hotel and watched a bit of tv and posted this post.
Up next.....Cruising!!! Tomorrow we board the Explorer of the Seas for 11 nights.
G'night!
Megan and Peter
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