Statue of Liberty and Metropolitan Museum of Art

First thing Monday morning we diligently got up and went for our faithful run around the reservoir at Central Park. It was a nice warm morning but after all the walking we do each day my legs felt like they were made of wood.  Afterwards, we got fed and hygeined up before heading to the very bottom of Manhattan Island to catch the ferry to Staten Island. To be honest we didn't really see much that appealed to do in Staten Island, the big driver was that the ferry sails right beside the Statue of Liberty.  Which aside from going up the Empire State building is probably the most touristy thing you could do around here - but we couldn't really come to NY and not see it! It was a very quick ride about 25 mins and once we arrived on the Island we simply jumped back on the returning ferry. The Western facing side of the boat was a bit like the Empire State Building with the amount of people pushing and trying to get photo's - but lucky for us we have Kimilla, who does not hold back from using her military close quarter combat techniques to get to the best spot to take photos.

Afterwards we went to Union Square and got some bagels for lunch. They were really nice and came with a roasted vegetable cream cheese. After lunch, I went to geek out at over at Stumptown Coffee, this gave Katie a chance to enjoy the fine brew before her and Kimilla went to find some shoes that she needed for an upcoming wedding. By about 4.30 they were shopped out so we caught the sardine tin back to our place for a bit of a rest and some dinner.

In the evening we headed over to Greenwich Village to a place called The Shade where we enjoyed cocktails and dessert crepes. Peanut butter, chocolate, strawberries, bananas, almonds a combination of anything you wanted could be made into a crepe. They were huge and delicious! The cocktails were pretty good too!!!

This morning Kimilla and I again hit Central Park but this time to the chin-up bars to abuse our bodies once more. I'm pretty sure that trying to work out on a diet of bagel and crepe is really not ideal - but we ploughed though. Afterward Kimilla and I went our separate ways for a while. While she went to do the laundry (don't forget its her favorite thing to do here), while Katie and I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Art Museum was amazing, we literally didn't get through 1/10 of the pieces that they had on exhibition and after nearly 3 hours we were pretty museumed out. We spent most of our time exploring an exhibition on American Civil War painting and photography, which was really interesting. We also explored a modern photography section and section on European Painting (boy they sure liked Christ, boobs and martyrdom). None the less it was a fun way to spend the morning.