Cultcha vultchas

Up a bit late and after a coup,e of false starts wondering about breakfast and iteneraries we headed for the Cloisters museum nearby to see the first part of the Heavenly Bodies exhibition. Stunning...especially in that setting of medieval church/chapel buildings. John Galliano our favourites...the main picture is a dress embroidered with a portrait of Machiavelli and words from the title page of his ‘The Prince’. Others in extras...the wedding dress was a Balenciaga.
Spent a couple of hours there...we may return....and then home to get ready and head downtown. A more successful day with transport thank goodness and arrived easily by train at City Diner for a shared soup and salad in a lovely Art Deco setting, then hopped on a cross town bus to the Met museum to see the second half of the exhibition. More amazing things, but much busier and swamped by so many other exhibits that we preferred the Cloisters part. Nevertheless looked at more medieval exhibits as well as Egyptian, and checked out the rooftop bar with views across the park. Gorgeous.
Caught a bus all the way downtown which let us see more of the city then walked to Twyla’s restaurant, my cousin’s daughter. It was a busy noisy place but good food that arrived quickly and we snatched some chat with her too...arranging to meet up later next week.
We ditched the donut expedition I’d planned and instead found a very nearby subway and came all the way home quickly. Unfortunately the only tricky bit happened when we came out the wrong end of the station and found ourselves several blocks away in a completely different neighbourhood! No wonder by the time we got home we’d done 23,000 steps today!