Our Last Full Day in NYC

It was a beautiful morning in upper Manhattan.  We were lovin' this view down Park Ave. on our way to the next museum.

We saved the best for last;
the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 

We had several hours to spend here, but that could never be enough time to see everything. Time to study the map, pick and choose, and make a plan!
 

We ended up having a great time enjoying as many little details as we could!
 

We saw Rembrandt,
 

Caravagggio,
 

Degas,
 

Monet,
 

Serat,
 

Van gogh,
 

Pollack.
 

This is a painting Ryan's mom hung in there home and he has looked at a thousand times. Nice to see the original!
 

There was so much fun stuff to see!
 

Obligatory pregnancy shot. ;)
 

"Cat". Hmm, interesting.

I seriously walked by this three times before I realized it was an ear.
 

Close up of the ear, you can see how I was confused.
Sometimes we just need to step back in life and get some perspective.
 

Okay, maybe it's time to go, we are getting silly!
 

Back to the subway. Don't let this picture fool you. There are rats down there, I promise!
 

When we came up the steps out of the subway that evening, this is what we saw.
The Manhattan Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

 It's nice to feel at home, when you are so far from home.

 

We covered a lot of area on our last day. I'm pretty sure we clocked like 10 miles by foot. The end of the day found us making our way to the World Trade Center Site.

 

While  finding our way there we stopped on a bench to rest and have a little snack. It was a lovely view looking west over the river.

 

We found the Freedom Tower. Wow. We were able to watch a little video about the events of September 11th as well. We hadn't originally planned on coming down to Lower Manhattan and and stopping here. I'm so glad we did.  

 

While making our way back to Times Square we found another cup cake shop. Crumbs. It was closed by the time we got there. Oh well.

We spent our last night in the heart of Times Square at the Double Tree hotel. Yes, we could see the jumbo-trans out our hotel window. 

 It was almost midnight by the time we finished dinner at the Olive Garden in Times Square and worked our way across the street to our hotel. (It's literally right out the window behind Ryan in this picture). It sure didn't look like things were winding down at Olive Garden though, or Times Square, for hours to come