I went to NY and back. The train rides were long, but surprisingly I slept veeeeery well.
We left 4 of us. 2 girls 2 guys. Then we got off at Croton Harmon, the station closest to F* place. He came to get us by car and we spent the evening at his place. His family has a nice big house in the suburbs and his parents are just fantastic people. We had dinner, we chilled for a little while and left to the center of NY in the morning. We didn't do the usual NY touristic tour, but we did go to the Metropolitan Museum where we spent most of the day. What a great place. You get in through donation and you can spend the whole day there if you wish to. We stayed there from 11:00 AM to 6:30 PM and we couldn't finish seeing everything... but it was really worth it. What a beautiful museum. The only thing lacking is the Korean section which is tiny... but someday, I am confident that they'll develop it too!
Here are some pics of the Modern Art section of the Met. Of course, for more Modern Art we should have gone to the MoMa or the Guggenheim... but I think we were quite satisfied with the Met for this time. Next time, I'd love to go to the other museums though.
After the Museum, we went to watch an opera at the Metropolitan Opera, one the the most famous and beautiful concert halls in the world today. We watched Verdi's Simon Boccanegra which was starring the wonderful Placido Domingo in the main role. He is 67 years old and still awesome as ever. He got applaused three times and each time more than the last... What a feeling it was. Seeing it live is quite different from just watching the DVD and even though we were quite far away from the stage, the accoustic was amazing and so we could hear everything very well.
Amazing experience. I can only look forward to the next time.
The next day we didn't do much, we shopped a bit in the Soho district, where we found a Uniqlo. We hung out at F* place mostly and watched the movie "12 monkeys", which I actually liked very much. Time is too short when you enjoy, but it was a great week end.
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