Well, New York has been busy...

Last night we went to Aladdin (my birthday present from Joe).  What a great show.  Magical.  Crazy colorful.  Funny. Fantastic.  Appearing and disappearing Genie, a flying carpet, Jonathan Freeman as Jafar (he voiced him in the movie), and some hilarious sidekicks.  Such a great time.  And the genie...

 

Tony winner James Monroe Iglehart.  If I can't have Robin Williams, I'll take this guy!  Wow!  

Showstopping "Friend Like Me"  

Handsome Aladdin and beautiful (but bambi-like) Jasmine.

Terrific show in the beautiful New Amsterdam theatre:

So beautiful.

I sang along with most of the songs and truly enjoyed the songs written for the live performance.  It was a great night...danced all the way back to the hotel.  

Then today (Saturday) we headed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  What a giant, overwhelming place...and we've been to the Smith, the British Museum, the Louvre, and the Claude Armstrong County museums.  Yeah, we saw some more good shit today...

Renoir

Van Gogh

Surrat - We've seen the full size one at the Chicago Museum of Art

One of Monet's many Water Lilies  

Toulouse Lautrec 

an Edward Degas sculpture

Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Standing Lincoln

Fraser's The End of the Trail

Remington's Bronco Buster

Tiffany Window - Autumn Landscape

A roman floor mosaic from god knows when

Joe and I with Sphinxy outside the Temple of Dendur

Big fucking, old temple gate...right in the middle of the museum.  And Egypt just gave it to us. 

Washington Crossing the Delaware

More Monet Water Lilies  

Van Gogh's Cyprus

And the man, himself.

So many beautiful things.  So.  Many.

After our visit to the Met, we headed to the Empire State Building.  But since both of us have been to the top, we instead, headed to the basement...and Heartland Brewing.  Lots of beer and some cheese fries.  Just what the doctor ordered.  Then Joe got this shot before we jumped in a cab to go back to the hotel.

Tomorrow...brunch in Brooklyn!