The Rest of the Trip – Tuesday

We are now in hour twelve of the bus ride back to Arkansas. It’s morning, I sort of slept. I will try to post pictures of the rest of this incredible week.

This is Tuesday morning at 7:50. I walked out to meet Jamie, Sean and Terry as they returned from outside the Today Show set. They got there at about 5:45, the cameras went by once and then they were told it would be another 45 minutes before they returned. They were cold, damp and achy and so decided to come back for breakfast.

After lunch the group did a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jamie and I wanted to see the special exhibit advertised on the front, here.

We wandered through the ancient Egyptian collection.

My favorite was the Temple of Dendur which was displayed in its own room.

The space itself was most impressive.

The whole building was huge and beautiful. Here are Jamie and Sean, behind them Tia, Jacey’s shoulder and the back of Terry’s head. It was hard to stay together.

Eventually I took off by myself and started walking quickly to find the exhibit. I saw more of the gorgeous space.

While I was taking this shot a man near me was telling his companions that the wall to the right was the outside of the building at one point. Then everything to the left was added. I finally found the exhibit but had very little time to view it because I had to find my way out of the building and back to the bus for our departure.

That evening we all went to see “Wicked” at the Gershwin Theater. The kids were there, too, but again we just saw them in passing. It was a great show.

This is our group in front of the theater after the show. Front row, David, Renee and Jamie. In back, Sen Jacey, Terry, me and Tia.

Because it was already after 10 and we had no early morning activity planned we decided to go to Times Square just before midnight. Terry had heard they replaced the video advertising with an art display from 11:56 until midnight. (We did have time to go back to Junior’s for more dessert.) This video was taken at 11:51.

And this one at 11:57. Honestly we weren’t sure if it was an art installation or a technical error, but it was interesting and fun to be there. Another long day.