Today we had used up our weeklong ticket so we decided to walk across the park and go to the Cooper-Hewitt museum on the Eastside. It was an absolutely beautiful day, and wonderful day for a walk in the park. And the way we went we saw parts of the park that we have never been in before. This beautiful little bridge is one of the things we saw. 
When we got across we decided to go to the Jewish Museum first because they had a new acquisition of a John Singer Sargent portrait of three women whose names I already can't remember. That was kind of more John's thing about mine. I had more fun in the gift shop. From there we walked down the block to the Cooper-Hewitt museum which has just opened after being closed for 2 1/2 or three years. It's another one of those small museums, but it had a very interesting exhibit about textiles that use recycled Indian saris, down to the tiniest of pieces which they used to make amulets out of.
The museum also hands you a kind of a pen when you go in, and when you see something you are interested in you touch the pin to it and after you leave the museum you can scan in your visitor number and it will show you all the things again that you thought you wanted to look at it in more depth of all you were there. 
They also have these big tables in the hallways and in several rooms where you can write things with the stylus on the other end of the pen, or create designs or pull them things you've seen and somehow manipulate them, though I couldn't actually figure out how to do it. It really was quite an interesting museum, even though the NY Times said it was not worth the wait.
After that we stopped at lunch on Madison Ave, at one of the places where all the nannies take their charges when they pick them up from school. Fortunately, we were kind of at the end of that pick up time so it was OK. We had a really delicious ham and egg sandwich. They claimed outside that it was the best one you've ever had, which they make on a popover. 
It really is delicious. Of course the fact that we were starving didn't enter into it.
After that we walked back over to the Westside to go to the Apple Store, because I cannot hear my phone when I put it up to my ear and I always have to put it on speakerphone. Well when I walked in the door and showed the phone to the little twit in the doorway, he looked at it and said that's because you have something covering it up. I assess the superb value of my three dollar phone screen cover. I have every idea they were in their break room and hour later talking about this stupid old lady who came in with her phone taped over and asked why it didn't work.
Tonight we went to a concert at the church of the Transfiguration (also known as The Little Church Around the Corner made famous by Norman Vincent Peale) which was an all Haydn concert. The New York Classical Quartet played three quartets from a two year period in Haydn's life, where he experimented with just about everything. 
They played at 430, just to prove they weren't baroque at 415 or modern at 440. We sat in the front row, and if I had had my music glasses, I could have read the violist's part. As it was, I could more or less follow it. I actually loved sitting so close to the viola, because it has such a lovely, resonant tone. And of course they were using gut strings.
This final picture is from the church courtyard as we left. Obviously, it's very close to the Empire State Bjilding. 
Tomorrow I hope to hit a couple of flea markets.
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