Saturday, 2nd September, 2006.

After an omelet breakfast at 'Andrew's', we caught a yellow taxi, (it was raining or we would have walked!) which took us to the Metropolitan. This impressive building houses a museum and art collection. We had a wonderful time here, so much art, even David's Death of Socrates, which brought back memories of A103. There was also another collection of modern art.

When we emerged from the Museum a few hours later, it was still spitting with rain, but we decided to walk through Central Park and stopped at The Boathouse. This café restaurant had beautiful views over the lake, and there was a pianist playing as we devoured our burger and fries! It was still raining, so we donned our plastic rain capes we had been given at the Houston conference, and made our way through Central Park to see the John Lennon memorial 'Imagine'. People had placed flowers there.

We caught the subway at 72nd Street back to 34th Street Penn Station (a wonderful art deco station) to our hotel on 7th Avenue. After a rest, we set out again in the rain the the Empire State Building with a view to going to the top, but it was shrouded in mist and cloud so we never got passed the impressive art deco foyer. Purchasing hot chocolates we made our way to bed - oh! and managed to get onto FC for a short while :-))