NYC Day 6: Empire State and the Met

Monday was a sunny, but very cold day.  We ate breakfast at a brunch place in Brooklyn, with various types of waffles.

We went to the Empire state building for a look, clear and could see for miles.  We did the audio tour, which was cool, made the visit a bit more informative.  It was one of the nicer days of our visit, which was a nice change to have climbing a tall building to lookout in decent weather, rather than clouds and rain.

We then made our way to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for the afternoon.  We only had a few hours, and barely got around any of it.  That is the one place I wish I had more time at, it was very interesting.  We checked out the greek statues and art, the American wing, and some of the weapons wing, where they had full suits of armour, including horse armour.

 

A last walk through Central Park, then for dinner we went to Chelsea Market again.  I found a vegan sushi place, where they had the most delishuz sushi… though I’m not sure if you can call it sushi when it has no seaweed or fish.  It was very tasty, nonetheless.  I also had tiny doughnuts again, with crazy flavoured sugar.   I had cardamon, and apple flavoured sugars.

Our final stop was the Empire State Building again, this time in the dark.  I definitely recommed it for anyone who goes to NYC, the view is amazing, with lights everywhere.  Everywhere.  All the buildings look so cool, and you can see the glow of Times Square.  The crazy thing was we could see a line of lights in the distance, over the lower tip of Manhattan.  It was a line of planes, we could see 7 of them, all in a row fading into the distance, and all, I assume, headed for JFK.  The line kept moving, but was always there, a constant incoming of planes that were landing.  This was about 9pm at night, and we must have seen at least 10 planes go past (it could have been more, I wasn’t counting).  It was a bit ridiculous, just the sheer amount of planes that were landing.

There was a helicopter flying all around our hostel for ages.  Maybe they were looking for someone.  I couldn’t face packing, so we had all decided to go to bed, when we found out my brothers finacee has given birth to a cute tiny little baby (not actually tiny), so that was pretty exciting 🙂