The Met

We started out with brunch and a walk through Central Park. Destination: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Located on the east side of Central Park at about the half way mark, near the Great Lawn and Turtle Pond (yes, there is real turtles in there).

Set aside some time for this one, she’s a bigg'n! An absolutely stunning building and one of the world's largest museum/galleries with more than two million works of art.

The Roof Garden up top has great views of the of the city and Central Park and a massive bamboo sculpture at present, think Swiss Family Robinson style tree house a la Asia, you can climb up for an even better view!

We took one of the free guided Museum Highlights tours which was a great way to see several of the collections and featured pieces as well as get a bit of background info. Took me right back to my high school art history classes. Keep up though, the guides dart around quickly. We nearly had a lost Mum incident!

I saw Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Warhol, Pollock and the list goes on. One very impressive place...