Exploring Manhattan - Part 2

Morning of day 4, I went to breakfast with Nick where we talked mad shit about Kevin and how he is totally lame and smells. Brooklyn has some serious waffles, and it was cheaper than any breakfast I can get in SLO.

After breakfast I head back into the city via subway and I hit up the Museum of Modern Art (the MoMA). I blew 3+ hours in there, there was so much amazing stuff to see, and I stumbled across the originals or pieces I did not realize were housed there. I saw the Starry Night, some Pollock, Seraut, Dali, and some others. Its a little spooky to think I could just walk up to a super famous piece of art and lick it if I wanted to - they have guards, sure - but they would only tackle my ass to the floor after I had a generous taste of history.

The place was huge and there is some serious vertigo on the top floor, as the center is open so you can look down onto a large central exhibit. That particular exhibit was about garbage and how pretentious you have to be to actually spend time examining it.

When I finally got arted out, I hit the streets and walked over to the New York public library (the one with the lions out front). It felt like a cathedral inside, and they actually have an original gutenberg bible inside, which was cool to see. The interior reminded me a lot of Hearst Castle in Cambria. Afterwards, I head over to Grand Central station and the Chrysler building. They can't even do a train station small - Grand Central was one of the more impressive builings I'd seen in the city.

I took the subway down to City Hall and started walking to Chinatown. If I haven't mentioned it already, all of the huge classical buildings are monsters, and they have huge roman columns and statues and numerals and fortune cookie sayings all over them. The Court House I walked by, for instance, had the big steps out front, it was established in CCXVIIIVXLXL or something, and it has 'JVSTICE IS AWESOME AND WE SHOVLD USE IT ALL THE TIME' engraved in big letters on the front. I forget exactly what the message was, but it was pretty close to that.

Chinatown was fun. And I promptly got some Beef Noodle soup that was delicious. Apparently Chinatown is eating Little Italy, because it was much larger and Little Italy was only a few blocks long. I grabbed a canole and rested at a street corner where they were doing a Sears photoshoot with a model and cameras and lights and everything. So if you see a Sears model outside of an italian restaraunt at any point, remember I was totally making faces at her - good ones too, she was quite professional.

At this point, I was exhausted - I have been sweating like crazy the whole time - and my feet hurt so I decided to call it a day, but not before I hopped out of the subway at washington square park (the one with the big arch and fountain). That was a nice spot to chill for a bit and people watch for a few before I got lost in the subways on the way home again. It wasn't as bad this time, but I did miss a few stops or hopped the wrong train a few times, but as long as you don't leave a station - no harm no foul.