(seurat drawing-MOMA)To my happiness, the MOMA closes at 5:30 giving me a bit more time than I expected. I head to the membership desk and I am told to go to information. I get a free ticket (thanks to the MFA ID) and save $20 entrance fee. I get to relieve myself of my bag so I can walk around the MOMA in piece. I head to the top floor and check out the Seurat Drawings exhibit.
Then I go through the permanent collections and realize I do like Modern art. I used to confuse Modern Art with Contemporary art. Overall I enjoy Modern art but I do not understand the more abstract pieces or seem less obvious to understand such as Cy Trombley and Jackson Pollack are two I don’t understand. I enjoy Mattisse, Signac, Seurat, Picasso (some periods), Alexander Calder or even Alberto Giacometti. I decide to snap a few pics and famous pieces throughout the museum. I am having a ball and I have plenty of time wandering around the 6 floors.
Then I go through the permanent collections and realize I do like Modern art. I used to confuse Modern Art with Contemporary art. Overall I enjoy Modern art but I do not understand the more abstract pieces or seem less obvious to understand such as Cy Trombley and Jackson Pollack are two I don’t understand. I enjoy Mattisse, Signac, Seurat, Picasso (some periods), Alexander Calder or even Alberto Giacometti. I decide to snap a few pics and famous pieces throughout the museum. I am having a ball and I have plenty of time wandering around the 6 floors.
Album of pics I took at the MOMA:
Now I head over to West 4th station to meet up with DLY and Ian in the West Village to meet for dinner by 6pm. Our prior plans to have tea were nixed as I got into town a bit later than planned. But it worked out as I got to squish in some MOMA time. (It did not hurt I had already seen the LUXURY FIT exhibit in May with my mom.). Even with some traffic delays taking the “E” I get there on time. We coordinate to meet at 7th Avenue and Christopher Street. I am in front of Christopher Street Park by the Stonewall Café.
We have a few choices and check out two or three places before settling on Extra Virgin. Both DLY and Ian usually head there for brunch and we were lucky to be seated quickly (no wait) for a Saturday night. We have a lovely meal and I get some monkfish, a blood orange margarita and a rose water crème brulee. It was a lovely meal. Though a lovely meal, service was not good when they forgot or ignored our request for bread. That was the only big snafu otherwise we had a great meal.
We all catch up and I hear about England, HBO and I share my recent tea for Jane Austen (Masterpiece Theater season of 2008) of all her six books. I did get to thank DLY about Aguaviva in Old Town San Juan was a great success and restaurant suggestion. I told DLY about places he has not visited such as Yunque or even the Camuy Caverns and visited Ponce (most southernmost town and area in the 100 mile island of Puerto Rico).
I was told some other new places that opened up in their hood one of them is PONG. My eyes lit up seeing a 15 course tasting in a cute intimate place for only $55 (crazy steal!). A must check out for next time for moi or even Harold (Top Chef #1) within the area.
It is 8pm and I catch the “F” to Forest Hills, 71st and Continental and I remember to get out by the South Side exit to be by the Chase Bank exit. I head to my friends home in the area only a 10 minute walk away.
It is good to see my SKing friend who is about to have her third kid end of the month. Her lovely daughters are very big with the eldest going to be 5 and the baby is turning 2 on Monday. I heard that the baby was being naughty and was a bit tired. Both little girls are watching tv. The last time I saw the baby she could not even rollover now she can walk, talk and climb up and down the stairs. I catch up with SKing and it is always lovely to see her. I do not know how she does it all. She is amazing!
We reminisced about Menemsha—Beach Plum Inn (under new management as I told her about the Rachel Ray episode of her visiting or the recent American Way magazine mentioning it too), how we had our first talk from Amherst to Northampton (I was visiting Theresa) to my recent Pioneer Valley trip. I told her I had not realized there was a Robert Frost statue on campus and that I had visited the Emily Dickinson museum. We exchanged updates on our friends and family news. My mom wanted to send the guava Chinese candies that the eldest loved to eat. I always feel welcomed into their home.
*I managed to read 3 chapters of the STC study booklet.
After reading the Village Voice I decide to rest at midnight which is an early night.
After reading the Village Voice I decide to rest at midnight which is an early night.
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