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Mar. 21st, 2003 08:46 pmDevon arrived here on Tuesday, and I've not actually been updating much since she arrived here. Hell, I've not updated at all.
Wednesday we headed into NYC where we met up with PreZ for lunch. After we went to the Natural History museum, where we checked out the Butterfly Conservatory and the Tom Hanks narrated space movie at the Rose Center, and wandered around the museum for a while.
Thursday was a veg out day, Devon needed to do some reading for tests she has coming up next week, and I managed to read a whole chunk in the book I was reading (Laurell K. Hamilton's A Caress of Twilight). In the afternoon we went out to the Galleria mall in White Plains in a vain attempt to find some good bags... alas, it seems that suburban malls cater only to the preppy or the older woman crowd, neither very appealing to either of us. I did buy a cute little Pucca notebook. Watched some dvd's later in the evening: Amélie, The Bourne Identity and Strictly Ballroom. And I managed to finish my book, which was good.
Today we went into the city to the Metropolitan Museum. There are a number of exhibits on right now, including Da Vinci, Velazquez & Manet: The French Taste for Spanish Painting and an exhibit about Chinese themes in Japanese and Korean art. We would have liked to have seen the Da Vinci exhibit, but it was horrendously busy with long lines, so we skipped that. We did check out the other two exhibits, and I really enjoyed the Spanish painting exhibit, there was some amazing work there. I wish the Met had a better postcard selection, they have so many paintings that would be amazing postcards, but only ever have a limited few availible. I picked up a card of a Manet painting (Le Balcon) and one of John Singer Sargent's painting of Madame X, which was one of my favourites in the exhibit.
After the museum we went to Battery Park to see the statue of Liberty, and walked up past the WTC site from there. Then because we were still on the lookout for a new bag we stopped in at the Century 21 department store. Devon managed to find a bag of about the description she was looking for, and for $10 too... I couldn't find a bag I wanted there, but did replace the sunglasses I lost bunker crawling last summer with a pair of Guess glasses, a nifty bargain at $16.
I think we'll spend the rest of the evening vegetating and watching dvd's. I need to chase up with Kit and see if he's going to come with us to try and rush tickets for a matinee to Cabaret tomorrow.
Wednesday we headed into NYC where we met up with PreZ for lunch. After we went to the Natural History museum, where we checked out the Butterfly Conservatory and the Tom Hanks narrated space movie at the Rose Center, and wandered around the museum for a while.
Thursday was a veg out day, Devon needed to do some reading for tests she has coming up next week, and I managed to read a whole chunk in the book I was reading (Laurell K. Hamilton's A Caress of Twilight). In the afternoon we went out to the Galleria mall in White Plains in a vain attempt to find some good bags... alas, it seems that suburban malls cater only to the preppy or the older woman crowd, neither very appealing to either of us. I did buy a cute little Pucca notebook. Watched some dvd's later in the evening: Amélie, The Bourne Identity and Strictly Ballroom. And I managed to finish my book, which was good.
Today we went into the city to the Metropolitan Museum. There are a number of exhibits on right now, including Da Vinci, Velazquez & Manet: The French Taste for Spanish Painting and an exhibit about Chinese themes in Japanese and Korean art. We would have liked to have seen the Da Vinci exhibit, but it was horrendously busy with long lines, so we skipped that. We did check out the other two exhibits, and I really enjoyed the Spanish painting exhibit, there was some amazing work there. I wish the Met had a better postcard selection, they have so many paintings that would be amazing postcards, but only ever have a limited few availible. I picked up a card of a Manet painting (Le Balcon) and one of John Singer Sargent's painting of Madame X, which was one of my favourites in the exhibit.
After the museum we went to Battery Park to see the statue of Liberty, and walked up past the WTC site from there. Then because we were still on the lookout for a new bag we stopped in at the Century 21 department store. Devon managed to find a bag of about the description she was looking for, and for $10 too... I couldn't find a bag I wanted there, but did replace the sunglasses I lost bunker crawling last summer with a pair of Guess glasses, a nifty bargain at $16.
I think we'll spend the rest of the evening vegetating and watching dvd's. I need to chase up with Kit and see if he's going to come with us to try and rush tickets for a matinee to Cabaret tomorrow.
