Day 6 - NYC to Atlanta

Monday, January 12, 2015

Since we had to stay in NYC until Monday, we decided to get an evening flight and take another excursion into Manhattan on Monday. We rode the airport shuttle to JFK and left our bags with the bag check service again (because it was too early to check them with the airline) and then took the train into Manhattan to visit the Museum of Modern Art.

I'm not much of a fan of really modern art, like where the artist just glues some trash to a canvas and calls it a day, but the early modern art (Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Mondrian, etc.) is right in the wheelhouse of stuff that I enjoy, so I really liked most of the art at MOMA. It's hard to get good photos of paintings in a museum, and there are of course much better representations of this stuff online, but these were some things that really stood out to me and Julie, with that "hey, we were standing in front of that!" realism.

The museum's not so large as to be overwhelming – we went through some of it, had lunch in the museum's restaurant, and then went through the rest of it. (It helps that the stuff that I'm less interested in is at the end.) Then we took the train back to the airport, got our bags, and flew home from a short but very rewarding and successful trip.

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