Too Much Excitement!

[scooterbug44]

Go to the library and get your pic taken w/ one of the lions too!

I always like to hit at least one museum and if memory serves, they are open late so you can hit them for a couple hours after it is too dark for general sightseeing.

Why only minivan taxis?

 

[Smiling JOe]

As for the Met, I'll defer that decision to my friend, since I've been there. What about the M of Modern Art, the M of Natural History, and the Guggie?

Remember, I am a museum freak. I like to read all of the info in each exhibit. Those are great museums, but NYC is to be experienced on the streets. The museums have nothing to do with experiencing NYC. Save museums for a museum specific trip, like a week long trip to DC, and hit every museum on the Mall and the little spy museum downtown. The problem for me with going to museums is that they take up all of my time, and if your goal is to experience NYC, I think your time would be better spent wandering the streets of SoHo, walking around Central Park, etc., and maybe even sitting on the steps in front of the Met for 30 minutes.

 

[Jdarg]

Remember, I am a museum freak. I like to read all of the info in each exhibit. Those are great museums, but NYC is to be experienced on the streets. The museums have nothing to do with experiencing NYC. Save museums for a museum specific trip, like a week long trip to DC, and hit every museum on the Mall and the little spy museum downtown. The problem for me with going to museums is that they take up all of my time, and if your goal is to experience NYC, I think your time would be better spent wandering the streets of SoHo, walking around Central Park, etc., and maybe even sitting on the steps in front of the Met for 30 minutes.

Will has the International Spy Museum t-shirt. What a gem, that place! We had to drag him out of there.

OK NoHall- sorry- back to NYC. Trinity Church, across the street from the WTC site. I cried like a baby. I bet you will too.

 

[scooterbug44]

I agree that the flavor of the city is part of its draw and you should take some time to experience/view it, but New York has some of the best museums in the country/world! Don't miss an opportunity to see at least part of one!

 

[NoHall]

Remember, I am a museum freak. I like to read all of the info in each exhibit. Those are great museums, but NYC is to be experienced on the streets. The museums have nothing to do with experiencing NYC. Save museums for a museum specific trip, like a week long trip to DC, and hit every museum on the Mall and the little spy museum downtown. The problem for me with going to museums is that they take up all of my time, and if your goal is to experience NYC, I think your time would be better spent wandering the streets of SoHo, walking around Central Park, etc., and maybe even sitting on the steps in front of the Met for 30 minutes.

The museum debate:

I probably will go to some sort of museum(s), knowing from the get-go that I won't have time to appreciate the exhibits like I want to. However, I want at least see them. I enjoy the architecture of those sorts of places.

I want to take my brother back to D.C. so that we can spend a month reading every stinkin' placard in the Smithsonian...

Wouldn't it be great if I could download all the little placards from each exhibit and read them beforehand? Then I could go look without having to read.

 

[Gypsea]

NoHall, we're headed to NYC this weekend and what a beautiful weekend it looks to be. The only things that we have scheduled so far is dinner at BLT Prime and to see the play Spring Awakening. Can't wait. Other things that we are considering are to walk the Brooklyn Bridge and have pizza on the other side at Grimaldi's Pizzeria at 19 Old Fulton St., stroll Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village (north end of the park) to admire the 19th century townhouses, have a pint at Pete's Tavern (oldest operating establishment), walk the Central Park reservoir and go to the Empire State Building at dusk to watch the lights come on. Whatever you decide to do have a blast!!!! It's all great.

 

[NoHall]

NoHall, we're headed to NYC this weekend and what a beautiful weekend it looks to be. The only things that we have scheduled so far is dinner at BLT Prime and to see the play Spring Awakening.

Clap extra hard for Ernst (Blake Daniel.) He's the reason I'm going up there. He's one of the high school kids I've worked with for the last several years.

Can't wait. Other things that we are considering are to walk the Brooklyn Bridge and have pizza on the other side at Grimaldi's Pizzeria at 19 Old Fulton St., stroll Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village (north end of the park) to admire the 19th century townhouses, have a pint at Pete's Tavern (oldest operating establishment), walk the Central Park reservoir and go to the Empire State Building at dusk to watch the lights come on. Whatever you decide to do have a blast!!!! It's all great.

Thank you! Y'all too--that sounds like a great plan. I hope to make it to the Empire State Building, too; hadn' thought of doing it at dusk!

 

[Gypsea]

Clap extra hard for Ernst (Blake Daniel.) He's the reason I'm going up there. He's one of the high school kids I've worked with for the last several years.



That is too cool that that is the play that your former student is in!!!! It has received rave reviews ~ that is why we chose it. We will be at the matinee on Sunday so tell Blake we will shout out at him ~ Cap'n Crazy can be loud!

 

[NoHall]

Clap extra hard for Ernst (Blake Daniel.) He's the reason I'm going up there. He's one of the high school kids I've worked with for the last several years.



That is too cool that that is the play that your former student is in!!!! It has received rave reviews ~ that is why we chose it. We will be at the matinee on Sunday so tell Blake we will shout out at him ~ Cap'n Crazy can be loud!

I'll tell him that I sent y'all!

I don't know how sensitive you are, but I had several people warn me that the story is not exactly "Oklahoma!" More like this generation's "Hair" But set in the late 1800s in Germany.) You might want to . I read the Wikipedia synopsis; there is kind of a spoiler in it. Everyone who warned me also told me that it is a great play--very well done. (I guess it has to be, to win 8 Tonys!)

 

[NoHall]

Go to the library and get your pic taken w/ one of the lions too!

I always like to hit at least one museum and if memory serves, they are open late so you can hit them for a couple hours after it is too dark for general sightseeing.

That's a spectacular idea!

Why only minivan taxis?

Cash cab! Just so happens that I'm virtually unbeatable at trivia, too...!