Saturday in Gotham

We arrived at Grand Central late morning. Walked the twelve blocks down Lexington Avenue to our hotel after going through the Art Deco lobby of the Chrylser Building. When we arrived at our hotel the desk clerk told us that our reserved room was soaked as a result of the previous night's rain and that they had reserved us a room at another hotel(Mmmmm...this could be interesting...).

So, we headed over to W 43 street between 7th and 8th (too close to Times Sq. for my taste) to find our hotel. On the way we stopped for a coffee shop lunch (pastrami on "whiskey down" with dark mustard, a nice NY deli pickle, a cup of homemade beef barley and coffee.

We made it to the Met by early afternoon and had a great time there. Around supper time we stopped for a snack at a second-floor Border's Books cafe at 57th and Park. Got our movie tickets and killed a few minutes browsing in the 3rd Avenue Bloomingdales until the movie started.