New York City Vacation, Day 5

This morning we walked around Midtown Manhattan a bit before going on a guided walking tour of food trucks and food carts in the area. In the afternoon we visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Met").

We had supper at Gayle's Broadway Rose, where the servers are all talented Broadway performers who take turns singing musical theatre hits while people dine. That was just a few doors down from the Lena Horne Theater, where we saw the musical Six.

We ended the night with cocktails at The Joyce Public House near our hotel.

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This is one of many photos we took of the gorgeous interior of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown. It's situated between Madison Avenue (associated with the advertising industry) and 5th Avenue (famous for fashion and high-end shopping) ... a good location to serve congregants who are battling pride, greed, lust, and gluttony, I'm guessing.

It was drizzling, so others' umbrellas partially obscured the view of Prometheus, the golden statue at the front of Rockefeller Center. Prometheus oversees the area where people ice skate in the winter and where the gigantic Christmas tree stands each year.

This is one of five food carts and food trucks that were part of our guided walking tour. We had half-servings at each spot, and still we were all pretty much full after the second stop! We had South Asian chicken biryani, Indian kati rolls, Greek chicken souvlaki with pita, South American arepas, and Belgian waffles topped with a gingerbread cookie butter (from Wafels and Dinges).

After our waffles, we walked through Bryant Park and past the New York Public Library to the historic Grand Central Terminal for a subway ride to The Met. The museum has nearly 500,000 works of art from around the world and spanning 5,000 years, so you can just imagine the many famous artists whose work we were able to view. This bronze statue is Edgar Degas' "The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer," which we have seen over the years recreated on posters and greetings cards. Note, however, the hat on the man who is walking past the statue. A daughter pretended to be getting a good shot of the statue but was actually aiming for a pic of that man's unusual hat. Naughty girl!

Six is a musical comedy performed in the style of a pop concert. It features the six wives of King Henry VIII in a contest to determine which of them had the worst experience as a queen to that notorious king. Each of them sings an autobiographical pop song meant to make her case--and Six did win a Tony Award in 2022 for Best Original Score (and one for Best Costume Design).