Leaving the Big Apple

After our show, we met Rich's cousin Jeannie and her husband Will for dinner. They've lived and worked in Manhattan for years. Afterward, we hopped on the subway. Got ourselves back to Port Authority and rode the bus back to Jersey. I love reliable public transportation.

Our original plan had been to just drive back to DC Sunday morning. But while walking around Central Park on Saturday, we went by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and decided it wouldn't hurt things if we spent a couple of hours there Sunday morning before heading back.

It's huge and we knew that we didn't have time to see everything, so we picked just a couple of exhibits and concentrated on those. Better to leisurely enjoy a few things than to race through trying to see everything and end up forgetting it all because you saw it too quickly, right?

As we walked in, the Egyptian Art exhibit caught our eye.

Rich then wanted to see the Arms and Armor exhibit.

Just those two exhibits had kind of taken up most of our time. We did do a kind of quick walk through of The American Wing. It's being expanded even as I write this with phase II opening up in late May, and phase III scheduled for completion in 2011.

Done at the museum, we had lunch in the city and then back to New Jersey to retrieve the car and drive to DC. It was a very nice weekend. We'd like to do this again, but I think we're going to be running out of weekends pretty soon.