Today I woke up to a beautiful blue sky and speckled clouds but it didn’t stop the weather being absolutely freezing outside. I lumbered around the house leaving myself 5 minutes to walk 5 blocks to meet Tash. The more of the rush I was in, the faster I would walk and the warmer I would be. We met at her fathers on 70th and Park Avenue and continued up to 87th and 5th Avenue to the Guggenheim museum. The Guggenheim was designed by frank loyd Right and the exterior itself draws a lot of tourism. Unlike when Sam and I walked around Tash and I decided to enter the museum and look at the art and the interior. When we bought our tickets they informed us that all the side exhibits would be closing in half an hour for the light exhibition where the viewers were the art. After running through all the photography and a few art spaces we kicked out to the lobby where everyone one was distributed with head lights…. Then all the lights went out. All the doors were covered with black cloths leaving only our head lights and EXIT illuminating anything. The point of the exercise was to allow the guests to view the art and exhibits in a different perspective. I think their idea would have been more effective is there were less lights because there was so many people every where was illuminated by someone else’s head light. Tash and I spent a lot of time making animals; bunnies, crocodiles, foxes and butterflies on the ceiling or cloth and catching up on my Europe trip and her university tales.
On the way home Tash was humoured when I told her we sometimes spent Christmas Day sailing on the harbour and the afternoon sleeping or in the pool. Then suddenly I got the BIGGEST surprise of my day… a puddle on the side of the road had completely frozen and with it a plastic trash bag and fall leaves. I want it to snow again, I want it to snow forever! I cannot wait for a white Christmas.
Now I am sitting on Alice’s bed while she is screaming from the bathroom as the hot water has run out and she’s stuck in a cold bath with half shaven legs. I offered to boil some water from the kettle and pass it through but she said she’d wait for the water to heat. She’s been waiting a while, and complaining even more. I just hope she jumps out before she uses all the hot water!!
p.s. this is totally irrelevant but this is the little chest of draws I found at Hells Kitchen Markets under all the mess..
xx m
