Tidbits from the Train Tracks: First day in NYC

We were out the door by 8:15am, first stop: Central Park on the way to the Metropolitan Museum! Central Park was beautiful, and massive...lots of joggers and bikers. Saw some squirrels (squirrels are kind of a big deal for me, since i've only seen about 2 in my lifetime...). We were definitely still tired from last night, lugging around our bags and frantically trying to catch taxis and find the correct subway...our first adventure in NYC! haha. Anyway so we made it to the Met at around 10ish. We checked out their great Egyptian section, Medieval art section, Sculptures, Musical Instruments...theres TONS to look at. It was great, some beautiful pieces of artwork, I especially loved Monet's work (the French impressionist). We left there after about 4-5 hours and had lunch somewhere. It is an interesting experience here in NYC; people dont really want to be helpful at all. The main focus is to get the customer in and out as fast as possible, without a smile or a greeting. Definitely different. Also, its so multicultural. At the Met we barely heard anyone speaking English! mainly european languages, since of course there are a lot of tourists. But even just going around town among locals, there is a lot of people speaking spanish, and a lot of middle eastern and indian people. Definitely an interesting thing to observe. Anyway! So after we ate we meandered down 5th Avenue...I went into a 5 story Forever 21 which was ridiculous...so anyway we looked at a few more shops and made it to Times Square, which was totally full of people (tourists). That was pretty fantastic :) Hung around there, went to some more stores, (starbucks gave us a much needed energy boost, there's literally one on every corner). Then it was getting late so we went back to Penn station to pick up our bags, caught the subway home, and just hung out. Need less to say we a tuckered out, and have a full day tomorrow....just wanna sleep....but first, pictures :-)