More pictures from New York

I know it’s been almost a month but, seriously, I’ve been super busy and haven’t had time to upload them.
Here’s my mom and I in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral during the St. Patrick’s Day parade.

After the serious ice and snow storm on March 16th, there was snow everywhere.

We found a Spanish restaurant called Pampano (the name of a fish), we didn’t eat there, though.

We ended up at Smith and Wollensky where we had delicious lunch and beer in celebration of the Irish.

Federico was with us all the time and we had so much fun.

The cheesecake was mmmmmh mmmmh mmmmh delicious too.

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Radical lace and subversive knitting

I was subversive during the radical lace and subversive knitting exhibit at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City: I took some photos of the exhibit.

The truth is that when I saw the knitted ties that looked like snakes I was enchanted. I took a picture but accidentally didn’t turn off the flash, that made the guards follow us all around the exhibit to ensure we would not take more pictures.

We managed to take 2 more pictures of us knitting. There was a special knitting table to get into the mood. I tried to teach Federico, but I am not a good teacher.

He also took a pic of me knitting, not that me knitting is anything new on the internet.

The tiny little gloves and tiny little knitted jacket and sweaters were amazing. Smaller than for a Barbie doll. Sadly I couldn’t take a picture but if you go to the exhibit’s site, you can see a picture of the gloves (link, exhibit site)

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Portraits

Portrait maria
Originally uploaded by Maria in Toronto.

While in New York, we had our portraits made by artist Claudia Doring, who happens to be my cousin. We had so much fun with her and were quite excited to be painted by her.
My mom’s portrait turned out to be even more amazing than mine.

If anyone is in the New York area and wants their portrait painted by Claudia Doring, contact me and I will put you in touch with her. She’s well-renowned with a long career and on her way to being world famous.
(you can enlarge the pictures if you click on them, or go to my flickr photo page and see more of them)

La Traviata

After a brief stop at the house where we were staying, we changed and were ready to go the opera. I had ordered the tickets beforehand and had to get there 45 minutes prior to the show. We weren’t prepared for what awaited us.
There was a huge ice storm. It looked like snow but they were actually ice pellets and not snow flakes. It had accumulated on the ground and my mom was buried in snow.

Traffic was stopped. We finally treked to Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera.

I was so excited when I picked up the tickets, I was jumping up and down around the lobby. People looked at me like I was the crazy opera lady.

The show was amazing. I cried at the end. I’m not a cry baby, but the heroine dies, after all. Ooops, sorry, did I just spoil it?

An important reminder to my readers:
New York is just like in the movies. About 5,000 get out of the opera at the same time. Everyone is tired (the people sitting next to me even took a nap during the show), and absolutely everyone is looking for a taxi, especially when there’s 2 feet of snow/ice on the ground. You can spend about 1 hour looking for a cab and will not get one (I’m talking from experience here). Attention everyone, the best bet is to jump on the subway and try to get home by looking at the map and trying to decipher where the train you just got on will take you. The most important thing is to not confuse downtown and uptown, from there everything else will probably be easier. And do not be scared of teenagers acting up and shouting while on the train. Especially if they speak Spanish among them, haha, little did they know that I understood everything they were saying. They just wanted to scare people.

Just a regular night in New York City.

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Spanish painting exhibit

I could not get away from winter even during my vacation. We had a huge ice storm in New York.
We woke up early-ish to go to the Guggenheim Museum.

The main purpose of my trip was to see the Spanish painting exhibit, from El Greco to Picasso. So we met up with my friend Federico who is studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

We loved the exhibit. We thought it was exquisitely curated set up by themes. We had lots of fun trying to deipher a Miro picture of a nude woman. We were laughing out loud, it looked like a whale and Federico couldn’t actually see the womanly shape. We probably would have got an F on art class!
When we got out of the museum it had started snowing. We were excited to see “some snow” in New York. Little did we know what awaited us.

We went for lunch at Gino, a small Italian place on Lexington just in front of Bloomingdale’s. The food was delicious, it was just like being in Italy. Everyone who visits New York should go. Warning, they only take cash.

(Click on any of the pictures if you want to see them bigger)

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Arriving to New York

Maria and Lorri
Originally uploaded by Maria in Toronto.

The first night I went for dinner at 66, a trendy New York place. Delicious food, I especially recommend the sashimi.
I met up with my friend Lorri. I met her when we were both students in London and I hadn’t seen her in about 8 years.
We had a great time catching up, laughing and joking around.