Post-Modern Minimalism

Today we learned that assaulting an MTA officer is a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison. Good thing we didn't follow through with our plan the first day, we guess. Cecilia had another run-in with one today when her Metrocard would not let her through the turnstile no matter how hard she tried. She went over to talk to the MTA officer in the booth while Louisa watched the train leave the station. He yelled at her for having bent it a little bit, but she finally made it through and we waited for the next train. One day we'll make it through a whole day with no subway problems.

We had gelateria problems again today too, unfortunately. We chose a gelateria to visit and made our way to the location, where we again saw a giant construction site. WE ARE NOT JOKING. We walked around all of the surrounding blocks but there was no gelato in sight. Something must be pushing all of the New York gelaterias out of business. We have high hopes that this blog will start a revival, however.

We went all the way downtown to Little Italy and passed several gelaterias still in business, which we marked down for next time, before we made it to the one on our list. It was delicious, as gelato always is, but not quite as good as yesterday's. The weather was beautiful, however, and we spent some time wandering around Little Italy before we went back to the subway.

While making our way uptown, Cecilia found herself seated directly underneath two bickering passengers, fighting over how much room there was on the train. "I didn't ask for you to come on this train; you chose to come on this train." "There's room for everybody, if everybody would just move down." At which point Cecilia stood up and moved away, leaving them to fight over who would take her seat. ("No, I don't want that seat, you take that seat....")

We got off in midtown Manhattan because we wanted to go to the Museum of Modern Art, which has free Friday nights (We're saving our money for more important things, ok?). Though it had been 80 degrees and sunny downtown, at 51st St. it was dark and raining. Louisa remarked that it was bearable, since it was not raining too hard, at which point it started to rain harder. Luckily, after passing under quite a few awnings, we made it to H&M before we got too wet.

The MoMA was very crowded but we spent quite a bit of time wandering through the exhibits, including one on the Helvetica typeface, at Louisa's mom's suggestion. We also saw many Picassos, Matisses, and Gaugins, but our personal favorite was the exhibit on post-modern minimalism, which is pictured below.

Tomorrow we're planning a picnic.