Drinking at New York’s Library
Day 1 of being a proper New York City tourist was going up the Empire State Building, which at first was great, but then I got a mild case of vertigo, but my travelling companion was hanging her camera out over the edge to take some downward shots, but apart from vertigo, the tour of the building was grand. We then headed off to the Guggenheim, but it was closed on Thursdays! Strange day to be closed; we should have checked on-line first. That only left us with the Met instead, which we thoroughly enjoyed. The Fashion exhibit was brilliant and some of the Impressionist paintings were fabulous, oh, and the Egyptian Jewellery was exquisite.
The afternoon began to turn on us, it looked like it might snow or sleet. We wanted to go a the boat tour around Manhattan and on to the Statue of Liberty, but we knew it would be quite a hike from Fifth Avenue to the West side where the Pier was, as when made our way down, it began to rain, sleet really, so we picked up our steps, and then it began to really come down hard! We felt like we were no nearer to the Pier than when we started, plus we had some seriously muddy feet. When we finally arrived to the Pier, our boat was pulling away. We were freezing and completely soaked! So, we decided that the only sensible thing to do was to get drunk. We found a bus immediately and luckily it was heading back to Grand Central Station. Apparently, we weren’t the only freezing, soaking wet people in New York, a majority of the bus riders were just as wet as we were. When we got off the bus, we weren’t too far from one of the better luxury hotels of New York, The Library, so we decided to change into warm, dry clothes before we went out for drinks.
We decided to stay at our hotel for drinks, so we thought that there was probably no place better to get drunk, than at The Library. At least it would be something to write about.