Day 20 - August 16th
Breakfast today came in the shape of a restaurant called Big Daddy (slogan "Who's your daddy?") so as you can imagine the portion sizes were typically American - I managed just about half my pancake stack. After that we got the subway down to Times Square, another one of New York's must-see sites from where we strolled past various other landmark buildings, ending up at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). This had some great exhibits and kept us entertained for a couple of hours although we both came away underwhelmed by the special Matisse exhbition which just focussed on a couple of years off his work - the exhibit description described this period as 'often overlooked' which perhaps should have read 'best overlooked'.
Rather than grab lunch at this point we went to see a movie, and stuffed our faces with popcorn and nachos instead. The film we chose was The Expendables, a ridiculous 80s style action movie directed by Sylvester Stallone and the perfect popcorn movie. It was showing in RPX, which seems to be a custom alternative to IMAX developed by Regal Cinemas - I've no idea what the technical details were but both the picture and a sound were amazing. The audience cheered whenever any action occured (i.e. most of the way through) and laughed out loud at even the weakest one-liners and on the way out one guy announced to us 'That film was AWESOME'. I'm not sure I'd go that far but it was deinitely entertaining.
It was pouring with rain outside so we ran to the subway, but no sooner had we swiped our metrocards and gone through the gate than I realised I no longer had my glasses. We retraced our steps back to the movie theatre (still in the pouring rain, Amy wasn't impressed) and eventually found them under the chair in front of where we'd been sat. Phew! Luckily for me the relief at finding the glasses made Amy forget that she was soaking wet and we'd wasted two subway tickets. Phew again!
After a brief rest back at the hotel we finished the day with dinner at a nice but unremarkable restaurant near the hotel.
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