"Me, Hoity-Toity?"-Day 2 in New York

Umbrellas in hand we walked to the Grand Central Station on Friday morning. It was raining like crazy. I was hoping that it wouldn't rain all day, but at night unfortunately we noticed that our wishes didn't come true. It.rained.all.day!

Amazing thing about the Train Station was that it was very quiet in the main hall, eventhough there were a ton of people. Did you know there is a Whispering Room? Next time when you go to NYC, go find it, but you need a friend to whisper things to. It is pretty fun.


The clock in the main hall.


Me and Minna.


Grand entrance to the terminal.

In the afternoon we decided to go to MoMa. And this is where hoity-toity (hienostelija, suomeksi) comes to play. I was texting Rod that we were at MoMa, and he texted me back:"What is MoMa". I couldn't believe that he didn't know what it was. I guess Business/Entrepreneurship majors don't study or care about art. I gave him a hard time and he simply texted me back saying: "you are a hoity-toity". I thought everyone knew what it was. Rod asked Katie and Steve if they knew, and they didn't know either. Well, I'll be! Maybe I'm just WAY too civilized for my own good. For those who are still in the dark, MoMa is Museum of Modern Art. Every night from 4-8 is a free entry to the museum and because we think that free is good, we went with other million people who thought the same thing.


Jackson Pollock

Andy Warhol

This is what we Finns call "Rätei ja Lumpui". This was literally a huge pile of cotton rags with mirrors, just in case you missed an angle, I guess.

Pablo Picasso

Minna posing as one of the models.

Piet Mondrian

Salvador Dali

Then we came to the "art" piece called "Fillette"-a little girl, and I thought, what the heck is a penis doing hanging from a hook from the ceiling...and it is called WHAT? I'm quite sure that is not art...just anatomy, maybe art anatomy.

After 4 hours of WALKING around the museum and the MoMa store, we were ready for some good food. We stopped by at Lindy's.

This "overstuffed chicken sandwich" is called Britney Spears. Topi said it was juicy like Britney herself. We ended the day with a slice of New York Cheesecake.


Mileage walked: felt like 1,000 but in reality probably only 5.