Day 8 : Back to New York

We took a train back to New York city. This time we checked into the Millennium Hotel Broadway near Times Square.

In the afternoon we visited the Museum of Modern Art.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been singularly important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. The museum's collection offers an unparalleled overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books, film, and electronic media.

I was happy to see my favourite painting, the Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh.


Gallery Label text:
"This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise," the artist wrote to his brother Theo, "with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big." Rooted in imagination and memory, The Starry Night embodies an inner, subjective expression of van Gogh's response to nature. In thick sweeping brushstrokes, a flamelike cypress unites the churning sky and the quiet village below. The village was partly invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands.

In the evening we walked around Fifth Avenue for window shopping. We did not buy anything, because things were so expensive there.

That night we bought take away Chinese food from a popular Chinese restaurant at Times Square. Then had dinner in our warm and cozy hotel room.

Day 9 : Going to Niagara Falls