Saturday morning in the village, meant breakfast from a local eatery. The best thing about wandering around the sunshiney streets is the lovely bakeries, organic groceries, and flower shops. I could eat breakfast for every meal in these small streets that are really bustling with activity but yet have the illusion of lazy charm. Once my partner in breakfast sin and I had collected enough for everyone, we headed back to the apartment to eat before heading out touristing again.
First stop was back to the Tenement House Museum. It turned out that we were close enough to walk and so meandered the streets back down to 97 Orchard Street. This time we explored the Irish Outsider Tour from the fourth floor. It is a completely different history that still translates into the collective immigrant history of New York. This tour will highlight the trials of being an outsider in a new community. These tours are imaginative and historically sound and I would highly recommend them to anyone. This one takes place on the fourth floor so keep in mind this means climbing the fire escapes. We also took in the visitor centre this time and attempted to listen to the movie. Keep in mind you need to watch it twice or read the captions as the gift shop announced tours at top volume every 15 minutes. The gift shop itself was very clever in rooking me of money for books. Books that I had to pack funnily enough.
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| Our tour guide. |
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| Tenement House Museum backside |
From there, we wandered down the lower East side and found a major coup in a fabulous donut shop. I am not normally a fan of donuts but these ones were divine. And the coffee, holy smokes. I could have spend more time there, but I don't think my waistline would approve.
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| I nearly fell down the caverns to the businesses below while observing the street elsewhere...oops |
We split up after that and while the other two went costume shopping, we went bachelorette shopping. That done, we headed uptown to Rockerfeller Center and went to the top of the rock. The Manhattan skyline shines under the sun and the effects were stunning over Central Park. We still had time after that, so we headed to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and wandered through there. The staff at the Rockerfeller Centre and everywhere else were fabulously friendly and delightful. The MoMA offers you poor signage, crowds and rude security people. I don't have a full appreciation of this style of tourism management and nearly suggested that we leave. Then I saw the exhibits and decided that the majority of it was well, not my cup of tea either. I adore the Impressionists but the rest of the exhibits seemed pretentious and overdone to me. My opinion isn't worth much but I had far more fun at the MET.
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| I loved the little girl trundling down the street with her shopping buggy. |
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| Rockerfeller Center |
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| Top of the Rock |
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| I don't know, do you? I decided to put myself in the art. |
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| MoMA |
Time was ticking so we hopped the train and headed back to the apartment for the bachelorette. This means champagne, gifts and champagne and cheese before heading out to Lucky Chengs for the entertainment and dinner. The drag queens were fun but they don't actually sing - just lip sync and the food...eat before you go...trust me...This was definately the thing that bachelorettes do in New York though so if you are in town, munch up and give 'er.
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| Balloon Man |
Showtime finished around 9 and so we opted to try and go bowling. That didn't fly. We ended up back in the apartment for more champagne. You can't legitimately end an evening this early so out the door we sauntered and headed for the Pyramid Club to dance the rest of the night away. They played 1980's classics, a preferred choice for our bachelorette, and it suited my vintage self just fine. We left there at 3:00 am and that meant that we barely managed to get up for brunch the following day. That turned into a whirlwind Capezio shop before heading to the airport. Bye New York, I think I might really miss you!
We split up after that and while the other two went costume shopping, we went bachelorette shopping. That done, we headed uptown to Rockerfeller Center and went to the top of the rock. The Manhattan skyline shines under the sun and the effects were stunning over Central Park. We still had time after that, so we headed to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and wandered through there. The staff at the Rockerfeller Centre and everywhere else were fabulously friendly and delightful. The MoMA offers you poor signage, crowds and rude security people. I don't have a full appreciation of this style of tourism management and nearly suggested that we leave. Then I saw the exhibits and decided that the majority of it was well, not my cup of tea either. I adore the Impressionists but the rest of the exhibits seemed pretentious and overdone to me. My opinion isn't worth much but I had far more fun at the MET.
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