Give me a museum and I'll fill it - Pablo Picasso

Today was dedicated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art!  On our way Ruth and I stopped at Big Daddy's Diner to have lunch.  I had the Turkey Club!

Here I am on the steps of the Met

Of course, I had to go through Egypt first

And we visited the rooftop garden

I had to have my picture with this ass

And couldn't help but take a photo of this guy...

What?!

And I went crazy in the Modern and Contemporary wing

Anish Kapoor

Chuck Close

Me with a Roy Lichtenstein

Me with a Mark Rothko!

Franz Kline

Robert Motherwell

There was an awesome Richard Serra Retrospective, where I couldn't take any photos...

Mucha for my Momma

Ruth with a Monet

We did not wait in line for the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty exhibition since the line was 2.5 hours long...

however, I plan on seeing that exhibition asap

After viewing most of the museum, we decided to take a break on the steps of the Met and enjoyed some talented musicians

Ruth and I

These guys were great, I especially loved the bass player with his popped collar

On the way home, we stopped at a fantastic grocery store and bought some fresh tilapia.  It was the most amazing tilapia I have ever tasted

Fini.

The Concrete Jungle

Today was dedicated to the New York Library.  If you walk towards Central Park at the end of my block you run into this...

... the Metropolitan Museum of Art!

It was a fantastic day for a long walk next to the park down Fifth Avenue to the NY Library.

By the Plaza Hotel, there was a skywriting plane, apparently advertising for Geico.

Here's me by one of the lions in front of the library.

After acquiring my library card, finding some of the books on my suggested reading list, and busting through two of the books (I took notes because they were WAY too large to haul home) it was time to head to Grand Central Terminal to catch my train home.

I ran into this guy while walking to the terminal

And this is the pile of books that were brought home.  That's about 1/4 of what I need to read...

Pennsylvania is a wide freakin state: The 16 hour drive and getting settled.

Well it's official:  I live in New York.

The trip began a few days ago.  We packed up the car, and surprisingly everything fit!

When we arrived, we received rockstar parking!  Directly out front of the building.  Lucky ducks.

Here I am, super jazzed that we carried all of my stuff up to the fourth floor.

This is Ruth being a pro and putting my furniture together for me.  She's basically a whiz at building any an all IKEA furniture at this point.

My bed pretty much fills up the entire room.  Below I have documented the transformation of my tiny tiny tiny tiny room.

As you can see, space is limited.  All of my clothes fit in my closet, whether hanging, in the bins at the top, or in the plastic drawers on the bottom.  Also, I put clothes and shoes under my bed.

 Yesterday we drove to Brooklyn to go to IKEA, Target and Lowe's.  Here's the Brooklyn Bridge, from the Brooklyn side

We saw this sweet end of the bed thing at IKEA, and I had to have it.

However, it did not work out...

 Caroline came over when the movers moved in the couch, so we went to an AMAZING lunch at Ottomanelli's Cafe

And for all you moochers that want to stay on our couch.  Here it is :)

More pics and updates coming soon.  I just got the internet put in today!