Day 5

Woke up and packed up and went down to this Parisian Bakery on the corner. Had a bagel and a breakfast sandwich that were both pretty good. I had made plans the night before to go checkout the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Marco, Mirko, Samuelle and Amelia, the Italians. It was another gorgeous morning in the park and there was a children's opera w/ Marrionettes on the big lawn when we walked by. The Met was very cool but huge. We all ended up getting split up right away. Then halfway through we all met up again. Within minutes of meeting up we were split up again. I had a great time walking around looking at the art. Mirko was most interested in the Chinese and Egyptian art, as he lives in Florence. I finished up with the museum and wandered the East Side for awhile, I walked by the Guggenheim but it was under construction. Amelia had said it wasn't worth the money to go in anyway. Walked back to the West Side through the park and just had a couple more things left that I wanted to do in NYC. I stopped into a coffee shop and pretended I was having thoughtless yet thought provoking banter about nothing with buddies. Just kidding but it was a cool coffee shop. Then on the way back to the hostel I stopped into a bakery for a black and white cookie. It was pretty good... look to the cookie. Got back to find Samuelle chilling on the stoop, he said he hadn't seen anybody since the 2nd time we got split up. As we were sitting there Marco walked up, he hadn't seen us or Mirko and thought he was the last one out of the Museum. Then the shuttle picked me up and I was off to the airport. JFK was crowded but I was early so I was able to find an outlet and pirate some wifi for awhile. One of the airlines paged Jakob Dylan while I was sitting there. Maybe his dad was looking for him.