This was our first day of rain (expected thunderstorms, but fortunately they did not appear). We took the subway uptown, stopped at a deli for a breakfast snack, then on to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We made the decision to spend about 4 hours there, foregoing other museums as they were billed basically as being a nice complement to stuff that was at the Met. And 4 hours we did spend, with one stop at the cafeteria for a frappaccino and a fruit cup. Most of our time was spent with the romans, greeks, egyptians and islams. We made a few minutes for modern art and Washington Crossing the Delaware (of course!!).

Back down to midtown, a change of clothes, and a short walk (9 blocks) back uptown to Studio 54 for Cabaret, with Molly Ringwald as Sally Bowles and Hal Linden as a jewish shopkeeper. We had dinner there (definitely not what was billed on their website), and one martini/cosmopolitan each. Our table mates were a mother/daughter pair, where apparently the daughter wants to make it on Broadway (someday). Definitely the best show I had seen so far.

If you have seen the movie version with Liza Minelli and Joel Gray, it is NOT THE SAME. The broadway version wins hands-down, in my humble opinion. On the way back, we made a stop at Roxy's for some strawberry cheesecake and white chocolate cheesecake that was really a mousse (???). Mmm Mmm Mmm.