So it has been a while yet again and the only thing I can say is, I wish it was spring or fall or winter. Anything but the summer that has brought numerous heat waves with it, along with the lingering smell of trash in our apartment. Our living room window faces the trash bins right in front of our building. We are on the first floor so all sorts of smells float around sometimes. It's one unpleasantness we have to endure in our otherwise pretty awesome apartment. In the last few months, we've been busy working and haven't had too much time to enjoy the city but on the weekends we do make it a point to head out and do something.
We finally managed to make it to the MET and I went again last weekend when it was ridiculously hot and I was burning up at home. I could go to the MET every weekend, it is that awesome. I'm sure I've only seen a third of what they have to offer and I'm looking forward to my next visit. This last time I checked out the Egyptian exhibit and waited in line for an hour to see the Alexander McQueen fashion on display. I apprecited the clothes and costumes but the entire exhibit and compositions were a bit too freaky for me. I'm not into the whole romantic gothic look he was going for and paired with creepy music, dark lighting and moaning sounds being thrown your way from every corner, I walked through the whole thing in five minutes. It reminded me very much of that movie The Cell with JLo, if you've seen it. That movie was creepy too so if you've seen that, that's the feeling this exhibit had.
Besides the museum we've been going to the park and plopped down a few times to read and picnic. That was before the heat waves. And we got one bike (yes, two would be better) and have been riding that to Prospect Park in the mornings.
We also discovered more bakeries in Chinatown and found what we dubbed Mango with Crack, a steamed mango-flavored dumpling filled with mango mousse, covered in coconut flakes. The name says it all.
Let's see what else the summer has in store for us, other than more heat and stinky garbage.
