{"id":44724,"date":"2024-07-15T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=44724"},"modified":"2024-08-25T21:17:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T02:17:19","slug":"nyc-day-2-part-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=44724","title":{"rendered":"NYC Day 2 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from NYC Day 1 Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nWoke up to rain this morning in NYC. We’ve been pretty good at avoiding getting rained on so far this trip. Let’s see how bad the rain is once we get outside.<\/p>\n

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\nThe heavy rain had come down earlier this morning, it’s not bad at all right now.<\/p>\n

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\nFirst, breakfast and coffee.<\/p>\n

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\nToo many choices.<\/p>\n

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\nBreakfast done, let’s call an Uber for our timed entry museum visit.<\/p>\n

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\nGross. Some Jeep drivers have the worst possible taste in mods.<\/p>\n

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\nGot here at around 10am for our 10:30 entry. We’ll spend the extra time to walk around Central Park across the street.<\/p>\n

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\nMe trying to herd the kids back together to take another picture.<\/p>\n

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\nClouds are low today.<\/p>\n

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\nGetting the pebbles out of my shoes from walking on the trail.<\/p>\n

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\nOh look, the iconic NYC steam coming out of manholes.<\/p>\n

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\nCL said the steam from one of the manholes smelled like carrots. So RL and PL went back to smell it and agreed that it did indeed smell like steamed carrots!<\/p>\n

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\nAlright, let’s get in line and go in soon. We’ve lucked out so far, it’s not really raining, just barely misting.<\/p>\n

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\nLet’s go.<\/p>\n

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\nI didn’t look up what was on exhibit, so was surprised to find this inside.<\/p>\n

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\nTwice now we’ve been to Guggenheim and been less than impressed with the advant garde art that they’ve chosen for their main exhibit. Meh.<\/p>\n

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\nKids, stop messing around or we’ll all get in trouble.<\/p>\n

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\nAlso losing it. We’ve decided this will be our last museum for this trip. The kids are museumed out.<\/p>\n

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\nYeah, that’s about right.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat are these?<\/p>\n

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\nTweets by Trump on metal. Little did we know that by later today there would be an assassination attempt on his life at a rally.<\/p>\n

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\nCurators of the museum sometimes, I feel, like are too up in their ivory tower to be relatable to the general public.<\/p>\n

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\nThat thing against the wall with the spotlight is part of the exhibit. What?<\/p>\n

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\nA projected video if an endoscopy of the artist. What?<\/p>\n

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\nHow do you stop fat people from using your toilets? Make it so that they can’t squeeze past the toilets to sit down.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is literally an AC system running. What?!<\/p>\n

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\nThe building is still cool though even if their art selection has been less than stellar sometimes.<\/p>\n

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\nKids were mesmerized by the rolling digital words though.<\/p>\n

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\nIrregularly shaped elevator.<\/p>\n

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\nWe got to the ground floor, and it’s just pouring rain outside. Better duck into the gift shop to see if it’ll lessen.<\/p>\n

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\nClick.<\/p>\n

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\nClick.<\/p>\n

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\nA few minutes in the gift shop was just long enough for the hard rain to stop. It’s again barely misting now. We’ve done well this trip avoiding the rain.<\/p>\n

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\nMoney money money.<\/p>\n

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\nEven the Taycan has a rear bumper protector.<\/p>\n

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\nAlright, down into the subway. Let’s hope we won’t run into any track maintenance at this station.<\/p>\n

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\nAll good.<\/p>\n

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\nLet’s head back to our hotel.<\/p>\n

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\nWe’ve been lucky that the trains haven’t been too full and we’ve been able to get a seat everytime. It’s the weekend right now so that’s probably part of the reason why there’s been more room.<\/p>\n

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\nGrand Central. Here to see the building, and here to eat lunch. The kids were only semi impressed with the building…<\/p>\n

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\nWe debated between Cipriani which has the view of the main hall, or Grand Central Oyster which has the cool domed ceiling. We decided on Italian food.<\/p>\n

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\nLoving the small cracker like breadsticks.<\/p>\n

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\nCheers.<\/p>\n

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To be continued at NYC Day 2 Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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