observations abbreviated

I just got back into town from a week spent between Washington DC and New York City. I'm still a little shell shocked from the traveling. While I recover my wits, here is a first impression bullet post.

• DC Metro is by far cleaner and much more user friendly than the NYC subway system.
• I realized that I didn't really see people when I was walking in NYC. I do when I walk down the sidewalks here. Weird.
• Speaking of not seeing people, at the MoMA, there was this exhibition that you took off your shoes and lounged in this big carpeted room with a giant round "couch" in the center. There were hundreds of people basically alone together watching massive morphtastic montages of flowers and wild boars and strawberries and people.
• I was surprised at how small the skating rink at Rockefeller Center was. I think that I expected bigger than life. Not that I was at all disappointed. Not even a little bit.
• I loved the Top of the Rock. Especially since we could see the Empire State Building. And the lines were much, much shorter.
• I loved Bryant Park.
• I wasn't so enamored by Times Square, but I am glad we walked through. It felt like the Disney Land of New York City. Bubba Gump? Applebees? That really wasn't what I came to see.
• I did love Murray Hill and walking through Soho and Little Italy.
• And I am so glad that we got to go to the theatre. August: Osage County. It was amazing. And we had absolutely perfect seats.
• The Oyster Bar was an experience
• Junior's cheesecake was amazing
• And we even got to watch the pizza's being made at Grimaldi's. I'm still a little shocked that the guy pulling the pizzas out of the brick oven never tossed one of those pies completely off the counter.
• I expected it to be much colder walking back to Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge.
• The crowds at Macy's were overwhelming, but I had to have gloves. It was dang cold.
• And I loved the snow.