Notebook and Pen

After a much more relaxed morning spent in the beauty salon getting all 20 nails done (and seeing my feet the cleanest they've been in months) we helped Ali & Matt to the train station for their journey to the airport after a 6 month world trip. Jealous jealous jealous.

20 minutes later and we could use our train cards again and headed into Manhattan for the Museum of Modern Art, or the MOMA as it's known here. I've never seen such a crowded art gallery before, and because of this we didn't get a good look at everything but still were glad to have managed a brief visit.

Our next stop was to what is probably the most intelligent thing to have put on the pass, a free ice cream at Dylan's Candy Store. Dylan is the daughter of Ralph Lauren, who gave her the money to open her own store which in no way represents any health advice given to food outlets in recent years. Still though, it was nice to go somewhere and just see prices on the walls rather than calories cleverly disguised as prices for once.

We also stumbled across an admittedly bored worker of the store, who's shift had landed him on the fudge sampler counter. An exchange of conversation for as much fudge as we liked seemed a fair deal for all of us and so stayed there for a considerable amount of time longer than most other customers.

Being surrounded by bubblegum and jelly sweets for a while doesn't really leave you in the mood for museums, so instead we paid a visit to FAO Schwarz, the toy shop featured in Home Alone 2, which was just around the corner.

I could call it the toy shop for big kids who grew up when the best toys were around, because for once we weren't the oldest people there, far from it, and not that many people had kids with them either.

Dave enjoyed a good session of exclaiming lots of 'there's that one!.....and that one!.....and that one!..', while referring to The Turtles figures and lego collectibles and I was quite at home in the human-sized Barbie house, home to displays of all the classics (couldn't find Winter Action Barbie, though).

As one shop leads to many the rest of the day was spent along 5th Av, only this time we had Spot and Elmer with us. (YouTube later!)