Hot Child in the City

Day Thirty

Sunday was great fun. Because we got out of here so late on Saturday, we arranged to be up and gone at a reasonable hour. Under the influence of some stuff, we all agreed to be up and ready to go by 11.00 a.m. in order to make it to the MOMA early.

When we actually woke up, Garrett decided that the MOMA was much too pretentious for him and he wanted to go to the Guggenheim instead, even though we got up so early for the sole purpose of having enough time for the MOMA, which is MUCH bigger than the Guggenheim. However, both were on our list of places Elke and I wanted to go before leaving, so we didn't really care, and off to the Guggenheim we went.

It was actually pretty cool. I didn't realize that very few (if any) of the exhibits are permanent - the majority of the museum was revolving exhibits by not very well known artists. And the building is every bit as awesome as people say it is. I think we ended up spending about two hours there.

Because we'd gotten up so early, it wasn't even 3.00 by the time we finally left the museum. We had plans for the evening, but not until a little bit later. So we walked a little bit around the Upper East Side until we finally reached the Central Park Zoo. We bought admission tickets and visited the very small, kinda crap-tastic, infamous Central Park Zoo. It was really small and didn't have very many animals. And the few that they did have were very inactive because it was so hot out. The Rainforest was virtually unbearable.

After that we were exhausted, and so we headed home. We only had an hour and a half to kill before leaving for the evening, so I didn't really get a chance to take a nap. But Elke did, and so we didn't get out of here until a little after 7.00, but it was a little bit too late.

Our intention was to see the Sunday show of the Upright Citizen's Brigade, but the 7.30 show was sold out and the 9.30 show was free, and so we had to get there early to get tickets. We sat on the sidewalk waiting for about 45 minutes. I called before to find out how many tickets they had (about 160) and only counted about 100 people in line before us, so I figured we would be fine.

I was wrong. It turned out that they saved 50something tickets for standby, even though we got in line two hours before the damn show even started. We ended up being 10 people behind the last person to get a ticket. Then they told us we could wait in line until right before the show (which was, at this point, an hour away). None of us cared enough to wait in line that long, so we decided to do something else.

Since we were in the area, we stopped by Elke's friend Sarah's apartment. We hung out there for a little bit, but we hadn't eaten dinner, so we were all starving. Sarah and her boyfriend were going to some vegetarian restaurant, but Garret and I didn't find that idea to be at all appealing. So Sarah recommended a Mexican place nearby, but when we got there it was closed. Instead we ended up at this Indian restaurant where Garrett and I shared a two-person platter that included all sorts of appetizers and entrees and desserts and such. It was, ABSOLUTELY, delicous. We might have gorged ourselves just a wee bit.

From the Indian place we headed back home. Elke went to bed soon after we got back to the apartment, but Garrett and I stayed up to watch Edward Scissorhands, which we had borrowed from Sarah. I hadn't seen it since it first came out on video, so except for a few snippets it was all new to me. I LOVED it. Johnny Depp is a genius.

posted by Megan @ 2:32 AM