Day Two: NYC

Day Two: Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

We started our second day off by heading to Rockefeller Center. Our first stop was St. Patrick's Cathedral. It was so beautiful! I'll just pick a few shots to share, but I took a ton. It was one of our favorite parts of the trip.


St. Patrick's Cathedral


Closer view of St. Patrick's Cathedral


Inside of St. Patrick's Cathedral


Stained-glass window in the cathedral

Then we headed over to the Museum of Modern Art. It was incredible! I'll try to limit the art pictures, but it was one of the few museums we were allowed to photograph in so I went a bit overboard.


Inside of MoMA


View of the outside courtyard at MoMA


View from inside MoMA


Andy Warhol - Rorschach


Jackson Pollock - One: Number 31


Andrew Wyeth - Christina's World


Pablo Picasso - Girl before a Mirror


Claude Monet - Water Lilies


Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night


Piet Mondrian - Composition in Brown and Gray

After MoMA we walked through Times Square to find a place to eat. That place was nuts. I think we were both glad to see it, but not have much else to do with it.


View of Times Square (Mary Poppins was for you, Mom)

After lunch we checked out the New York Public Library. Magical! There was a special exhibition inside the library, so we were able to see manuscripts from different eras and authors. I know there were illuminated manuscripts, but I'm afraid I'll mess up which authors we saw so I'll ask Matt and update this part tomorrow.


The New York Public Library


A concrete lion (in the concrete jungle. ha! not funny?) outside the library and ...


a Lego lion inside the library


Inside view of the library

From the library we went to The Morgan Library and Museum. Unfortunately photography was prohibited and we were under the impression that we would be able to see manuscripts from Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Shakespeare. We did not. You have to set up an appointment ahead of time and they let you use their research library or something like that, but it was a really beautiful building and J.P. Morgan's personal library was incredible.

After The Morgan we walked over to Grand Central Terminal. It was crazy busy. There were all these shops and places to eat. We didn't catch the subway at this point in the day, but we caught it from here later in the week. I really wanted to use Grand Central and I'm glad we were able to, at least once.


Grand Central Terminal


Inside of Grand Central Terminal

Our next stop was the Chrysler Building. It was so pretty. Oh, how I love the Chrysler Building!


The Chrysler Building

Next we went to the Empire State Building. The top of the Empire State Building, to be exact!


The Empire State Building


On top of the Empire State Building! (If we look gross it's because we were gross). Humidity, hu-shmidity!


View from the Empire State Building

Our last stop of the day was 30 Rockefeller Plaza. We went to the Top of the Rock observation decks. The view was just as incredible as the Empire State Building. I'm not sure which I enjoyed more honestly. Top of the Rock had better views of Central Park, for sure.


Top of the Rock with the Empire State Building in the background


View of Central Park and vicinity from Top of the Rock


View from Top of the Rock of Central Park and west


View from Top of the Rock of Central Park and east