I woke up at 6.30am yesterday, still feeling rubbish, but determined not to be ill another day. So I jumped into the magic shower, dressed and went out in search of breakfast to bring back. Went to Bagels on the Square on Carmine Street, where I got a sesame bagel with strawberry cream cheese for me, and a wholewheat everything bagel with bacon and horseradish cream cheese for James (a good choice, as it turned out) and picked up coffee from Cafe Esperanto on MacDougal Street.
After breakfast, we decided to hit up the art world and head for the Guggenheim (stopping at Grand Central Station on the way so James could see it). Sadly, they were in the middle of installing their new exhibit, so hardly any of the museum was open. Still, it's hard to call a visit where you see some Kandinsky, Picasso, Cezanne and Van Gogh a wasted one, and the building itself is so great anyway. Afterwards, we walked through Central Park (which is still all snowy and lovely) to the American Museum of Natural History. The dinosaur wing was fabulous, and you can actually touch some dinosaur bones, as well as seeing the huge skeletons. Our City Pass ticket also let us into the planetarium there, which was really cool. Narrated by Robert Redford, it did have a somewhat gung-ho American-ness about it, but it was actually fun.
I was feeling pretty rough by then, so I left James in the museum with the shark display, and headed home. We met up again at 5pm, and went out to John's Pizzeria on Bleecker Street, nice and close to home. We had two giant pizzas (one with pepperoni and one with mushroom and onion) and a bottle of very nice red wine served in tumblers. We got home to watch the next two episodes of the premiere of 24, but sadly James conked out half way through the first one, and I only made it a small way into the second one.
Today we will do better!
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