Last Full Day in NYC, November 5, 2012

A glorious sunny but cold day greeted us on our last full day in NYC. We decided to take it easy and finish up our cultural tour of this great city. That meant going to the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Natural History. The Guggenheim in itself is a master piece of architecture with its rounding staircase. And the major artist on display today was Pablo Picasso. It was over 300 pieces of his work done in black and white. As I mentioned to Shirley, I think maybe we could make a million or two by becoming artists if this is all they have to do. Obviously there are some really great pieces that force you to stand and admire how he put them together. BUT for most of them it seemed like a child could have done them. In fact, one of the commentaries on one of  the pieces of art work was his daughter telling how when they lived in France she had hung up some of her childish drawings with her dad's in the back yard, when an American art critic came and took a picture of their work. But then in the newspaper had noted that Picasso had some new paintings and then showed the pictures of her work!
We left here about noon and stopped at a little cafe that is part of a church and had hot chocolate with our own bagels in the church. Then we walked along several paths in Central Park and enjoyed the sun. We saw several downed trees from the storm, but most had been cleaned up in their attempts to get ready for the marathon that never took place.
We ended up at the Museum of Natural History, which completed our cultural tour of NYC. It is very well done and we spent about 40 minutes in the section where a presentation is done on stars. Whoppie does the narration. We then wandered for awhile through several of the sections but soon decided to go out for our final dinner in NYC. Shirley wanted Italian and so we ended up at BICA on 54th Street. Let's just say that we spent three times as much here for dinner as we did for dinner in Knysna at the Olive Tree where we had one of our best meals ever!! This meal was also excellent, but way more than we should have spent.
we headed back to the "N train" and I think we final have the subway system worked out!!
I will send one more blog once we get back home. Hope you have enjoyed reading about our little adventure and will send me a brief email before I send the final blog to let me know what questions you may  have or comments on our trip.
Thanks for following along with us.