New York, New York, part 2

My hotel was pretty close to Central Park so I started both Saturday and Sunday off with a run in Central Park. Running heaven! There are tons of trails and pathways in Central Park but two main ones for running and cycling. On Saturday mornings there is also a bike race. It was pretty awesome to be running along and have a huge peloton come up from behind. Central Park is one of the few places I've ever run where I pass a significant amount of people. It's a nice ego boost but I definitely no longer speedy!
I spent a lot of time walking through Central Park on Saturday. I love love love Central Park! It's such an odd feeling to be in the middle of acres and acres of greenery and look up to see skyscrapers looming overhead.


After wandering around Central Park I went to the Guggenheim Museum. I like the Guggenheim a lot, for both it's design and it's exhibits. From the outside it looks like one of those foldable cups you'd take camping. You walk around the inside continuously going up a big spiral. There are several smaller galleries on each "floor". It's mostly modern/contemporary art and they were featuring a big exhibit on photography which I really liked. In one of the smaller galleries they had a small exhibit on Kandinsky and another gallery had a small exhibit from the Thannhauser Collection which was mostly impressionist paintings. Both exhibits were a real treat.
I also checked out The International Center for Photography. It's a small museum but they had some interesting exhibits. Upstairs was they had five featured photographers and downstairs was a collection of memorabilia and photographs from the civil rights movement. The civil rights exhibit was excellent if a little jarring to look at photographs of lynchings while hearing "Let the Sunshine In" playing in another part of the exhibit.

Who goes to NYC and doesn't do a little shopping? Not me!! Haha - those of you who know me know how much I hate shopping and how mortified I would be to enter enter these stores but it was fun to look in the windows.


. . . to be continued . . .