Saturday, my typings getting worse...

We went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), so we walked up Fifth ave, to the left is Central Park. Another gorgeous day. Lucky we got in for half price as "students", because we thought we could knock it over in a few hours. Wrong! |This place is huge , takes over several buildings (i think the architecture is just a beautiful as a lot of the artwork). I dont know much about art, thats why we havent chosen to go to a lot of galleries here (in London lots of them are free so we should make time for some). What I did like about the met was it was like a cross between a museum and an art gallery, lots of history. Briony was having a haircut and gye job (shes going back blonde) so she left for SoHo at 4 while I stayed to check out some more of the place. Some of the art we saw inlcudedL drawings and prints, european art, islamic art (sorry no time for capitals), Japanese Art (my favourite, so delicate and I really identified with a lot of the contemporary stuff that blended new media with ancient techniques), modern and contemporary art, photographs, egyptian art, european sculptures (beautiful hall looking over Central Park), Greek and Roman Art - and thats just what I covered, so much more we missed including an exhibit of Dali and Gaudi.

Saturday night, Viraj made late dinner reservations at Lucky Chengs, where the sign out front read "the mroe you drink the prettier we look". Its an Asian Fusion restuarant run by drag queens! They waitress and provide a type of entertainment all night. The place is PACKED and we are squished in like sardines but its all part of the atmosphere. It's me, Viraj, Kerry, Noni and Johnathon, another Forum colleague who is visiting from Geneva. The night was a blast, by the end of dinner we were ordering what can best be described as baths of alcohol, which everyone from the table can drink from (huge cocktails). A real sight, and it got us primed for karaoke, which is coming later.

Our dinner is finished and Briony is hauled up onstage to be a contestant in a banana licking contest. A lot of hens nights end up here for tea so imagine. Briony gets shy but Johnathon took some great pics (a secret crush perhaps?). At least none of us were pulled up in the last contest, which was to perform a lap dance for one minute up on stage to a random male guest. In between all this, one of the queens (called Japanese Bitch, I kid you not), were pulling up audience members onstage and doing routines with them. those gals are strong! they were flipping them this way and that to the receivers mortification and the audiences delight...lots of laughs and "oh my gods" were shared. After this we headed to a bar with karaoke to try to get Kerry to sing (no joy).

Most of the people who went up were great, a really young, funky crowd and good songs. Everything sounds better after a few cocktails and we are in fine voice in the crowd. The best thing about this bar was that the film Anchorman was playing silently on a plasma at the bar, over and over. I loved that movie. One by one we drop like flies, I lasted until 430am, just after our limo ride (classy...not!) to the meatpacking district with a tambourine playing driver. I kid you not...

Sunday - another sleepy day, late brunch and we all catch a movie with Vriaj and Johnothan. The Premonition is not worth it, wait for DVD or not at all. Crappy weather too today.