NYC Update

This is the the view out my window. Nice, eh? Anyway, this past week I've been in the Big Apple. First thing I did after getting off the plane was to sleep. The next day was signifigantly longer, even though it took me considerably longer then it should have. Anyway, I managed to walk down the the Museum of Natural History, in which I spent over four hours, simply enjoying the exhibits.

I must say i spent a great deal more time in the dinosour exhibits then I thought I would. Navigating through the prehistoric creatures and reading about nearly mythical creatures isn't generally my favorite pasttime, but I did find a great deal of enjoyment in the old bones and reproductios. I was especially impressed by the extinct mammels exhibit.
In the same vein I found the history of vertabrates to be pretty damn cool as well. The Weather this week has been phenomenal! I don't think it's dipped under 67 degrees ferenheit once since I've been here. This has been a mixed blessing. First of all It's gorgeous, I mean, really truly beautiful. Secondly, it's hot, and that's nice, but also not so nice. I don't do well with the humidity and that means I've spent a great deal of time in museums, which is also nice.
To change gears again, I just have to say, I love this city, it's big and loud and fantastically obnoxious. I really like how I can find anything I'd like in a three mile radius and that's truly awsome. I managed to see four different shows in a matter of four days. Thursday, after visiting the MET, which I will talk about more later, I went to a free student production of Twelfth Night. It was shortened considerably, but still a whole lot of fun. However, this particular production is one of my favourites, so my opinion might be just a bit bias. Friday I went to Mary Poppins (my very first Broadway show). It was a great little feel good show, with fantastic technical work. Saturday, Nik and I got up early and stood in line four two hours for tickets for Spring Awakenings and it was totally worth it. An absolutely brilliant play. Lastly I went to The Drowsy Chaparone, which was a lot of fun.

Now, the Met. The Met was a little odd; I thought it seemed like Disneyland for art. There was a room that was actually a Egyptian temple transported and reconstructed indoors. I did find a great deal of the museum to be more theme park then an institution of learning open to the public. There wasn't a whole lot of documenation next to the more modern works, which I found disapointing simpy because I don't know a great deal about modern art. This was equally as frustrating in MoMa, were documentation of the pieces was few and far between and, considering the nature of modern art, seemed more counter productive then anyting else. However, I did enjoy my museum tours. Mostly though, I enjoyed visiting my dear friend and exporing the city. Maybe, actually I liked everything about this week.
Today I walked around central park for hours, I sat by The Lake and enjoyed the sunshine, then I walked some more.


These are my feet, signing off for the week! I'll see you in Ireland!

Audra