Wet and steamy streets.

We spent a lovely day at MoMA today (The Museum of Modern Art). We'd gone in order to see the Tim Burton exhibition before it closes on Monday and thought we'd get there slightly early and beat the Sunday crowds. Hahaha, what simple fools we are!

We turned up to find that the queue went all the way around the block! The rain was absolutely lashing down too (I have lots and lots of wet street and umbrella photographs now...) and it took a good hour to get inside - then another long wait to get tickets.

Luckily you can't take 5 steps without tripping over a Starbucks around here so M kept us a place in the line while I did a coffee run. Everyone of course wanted to see the Tim Burton exhibition and it was all timed tickets to get in - ours was for 6pm and it was 11am at that point. It was fine though because there was also a Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition :O)

We spent hours gazing in awe at all the photographs. We are both already huge fans, (he is my most favourite photographer, I wont gush on about him - but he is brilliant...) and we hadn't realised that this was here so it was a wonderful surprise.

We wandered around some of the other galleries and headed out for lunch at 2pm, then came back to see Tim's stuff at six. It was fab but terribly crowded and difficult to look at anything without loads of folk stepping right in front of you. Great to see though and I was most pleased to find myself appropriately dressed for the occasion in my black and white stripes, very Beetlejuice! ;o) We worked our way right round but didn't linger as it was a bit claustrophobic with so many similarly dressed stripy/goth types crowding around!

Instead we went back up to see the Cartier-Bresson exhibition again! Its wonderful! This time we did it with the audio tour too which was perfect because it was much less crowded by then and you could stand in front of each photograph as long as you wanted.