We slept in today and then headed to our new breakfast place - a Greek market behind the hotel that also serves hot food. I had a lovely greek egg scramble and coffee. Michael just had coffee and the price was a little more than 1/4 of yesterday's.
Today's plan was to spend the day at the "Met" - the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We took the subway up to 77th Street and walked over to 5th Ave. My ankle only complained once or twice. The suggested entry fee for one adult and one senior is $42. The ticket lady asked us how much we'd like to pay. After a little confusion, we said we'd like to pay $42. I asked if people actually paid nothing, and she said that you had to pay something, but some people pay as little as they can get away with. We spent a few hours wandering. Highlights were Washington Crossing the Delaware and the section of full armor. Daniel and Elizabeth were able to leave work early so we met them outside at around 3:30 pm. I had a street vendor hotdog earlier to hold me over until dinner. Daniel has never had one. Elizabeth says the natives call them "dirty water dogs" and won't touch them. I assured her mine was grilled and delicious. We went back into the Met and did more wandering. Then the plan was to go to the Neue Museum at 6:00 pm since it was First Friday night and free from 6-8 pm. We wanted to see the Klimt painting Lady in Gold since my book club has seen the movie and is reading the book and D&E have seen the movie also. We walked by the museum at about 4:45 and the line was already forming. Since we had 6:45 dinner reservations, we could see that it wasn't going to happen. When we learned that they were offering half off admission since most of the gallery was closed, we bit the bullet and paid. It wasn't too bad since Elizabeth got a teacher's discount and Michael got the senior rate again. Saw the paintng which is quite something in person and has such an interesting back story. Then I got postcards for the book club and we were off to a local bar/restaurant for a pre-dinner cocktail, although Daniel is abstaining this month, so he's been having hot tea most places.
Then it was time to catch the bus down to 58th for dinner at Tao. We saw the line we had bypassed and it stretched for at least 2 blocks. So glad we didn't wait. I had bought the kids a gift certificate at Tao for their Christmas present and they thought we should all use it. Had another delicious dinner of 5 Asian small plates and beer and wine. While we all had enough to eat, the total bill still came to $206 before tip! Can't imagine what it would have been if we'd had regular entrees.
We taxi'd back to the hotel - the kids dropped us off on their way home.
Another interesting tidbit on this trip is that Michael keeps getting messages from "Correctional Facility" asking him to authorize a collect phone call. He never answers the phone, but they must have called 8 or 10 times already. So if any of our friends or family are in jail, sorry we're not there for you ;-)
Fitbit registered 11,962 steps.
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