Humid New York Summer

I really shouldn't complain.  The weather in NY is beautiful and sunny.  When I checked the weather before I left, it was suppose to be rainy for at least the first three days.  So far, it rained while I took a 2-hour nap yesterday and that was that.  Today it was hot and sticky and I wish I had brought a summer dress to wear (hmmm maybe I'll go shopping for one, or two tomorrow).  Slept in, met up with my designer / friend @jodene at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  WOW I say.  WOW.  I saw original Van Gogh, Degas, Renoir, O'Keefe art pieces to name a few.  We also enjoyed looking at Buddhist art from Asia.  Holy moly.  The experience was unreal... people were so creative, expressive, and imaginative, in various ways.  The beauty of it all.  It definitely inspired me some and I hope this feeling keeps and that I start creating my own art pieces when I get home.

We ate at the museum's cafeteria thinking it would be cheaper than the cafe upstairs (which had a set price of $24).  Holy cow it was the most expensive salad I've ever had in my life and it was charged by the ounce.  I got a salad bar salad (it wan't huge), a protein bar, a water, and a glass of white wine ($4) and the total came out to almost $26.

After the museum, we used our iPhone to find the nearest Starbucks near the Apple store on 5th Ave.  It was in the Trump Tower, which is extravagantly gawdy.  Yuck.  I remember seeing The Apprentice the first or second season and they showed Donald's penthouse on the top floor and he was showing off his gold toilet.  Really? Does knowing that everytime you sit on it and your ass and shit touch gold make you feel rich? Um yah, gawdy.

The Apple Store was packed like the last time I was there in January.  Crazy.  It is still very cool how the exterior is a glass structure and you go in and then go underground from it.  It's as if you're being integrated into the Apple world as you go down. 

Then we hiked all the way back to my hotel which is like 23 blocks (and these are big city blocks) and I suggested we get Korean food.  OMG it was so good that we are talking about getting it again for dinner tomorrow night.  We feasted and then I went back up to my room to change my skirt into jeans (bad idea).  It was still humid out and @jodene wanted me to go along with her to see Steve Reich (which I never heard of before).  The music is like transic orchestra emo-ish music.  That's the best way I can describe it.  It was at this club in the Greenich Village called La Poisson Rouge and truly crowded.  We scored a small space to sit on the floor and my body and head ached bad so I bailed after two songs.  Besides, people behind me kept accidentally kicking me in the arse so enough of that. 

On my way back to the hotel, I was thinking to myself how NYC is such a great place to visit but not a place for me to live.  Everything is man-made and everywhere I looked, up down left right were pretty much filled with concrete or people. Like, if I lived in NYC and wanted to do social stuff with friends it probably wouldn't be something like, let's go snowboarding, hiking or river rafting.  I'd miss the nature-y stuff too much.  I guess I'm just spoiled since living in Seattle, you can drive about 45 minutes after work and be on top of a mountain night snowboarding.  Additionally, rent in the "good" areas of town in NYC is super duper expensive... more than Seattle by way far.  It just made me appreciate more of what I have in Seattle.  Squee! :)

Tomorrow I think I'll just walk around the metropolis again and enjoy the city experience.  It's fun, except for the two times getting hit on by high-strung dudes at Time Squre. Heh.