8r4d Sadly, this is about as close as I'll ever get to a Stradivarius. #newyork #museum

8r4d Art gazing at the #museum, part four. #newyork

8r4d Art gazing at the #museum, part three. #newyork

8r4d Art gazing at the #museum, part two. #newyork

8r4d Art gazing at the #museum, part one. #newyork

8r4d Just before we went into The Met (from where I'm posting this after an expensive lunch!) we checked out some ancient Egyptian ruins outside. Cleopatra would have been thrilled. #newyork #museum

8r4d Wandering through the park with no particular destination in mind is a great adventure for a Friday morning, jet lagged but still happy to be here. #newyork

pixelazy Reflecting on the waters of Central Park scenes. #newyork

8r4d Morning strolls through the city find us walking Central Park in autumn. #newyork #walks

castironguy While the girls pushed through their jet lag, I wandered out into the morning streets to score some fuel. Bagels from Pick a Bagel, still warm, will keep us going thru to lunch I hope. #bagels #newyork

8r4d The view our first morning was almost as spectacular as the night scene. #newyork #views

pixelazy One more shot of this epic nighttime view. #newyork #views

8r4d Her first time on Broadway and she's already trying to steal the show! What a ham! #newyork

8r4d The view from the 33rd floor is lovely at night and with a great deal on an amazing hotel we'll get to see it every day while we're here. Too bad about that elevator rode tho! #newyork #views

8r4d Broadway looks quiet now but in about 30 minutes these shows will let out and hundreds of goers will pour into the streets. Tomorrow we'll be among them but tonight we're just checking the scene and getting settled in NYC. #newyork

8r4d The candy story in Times Square was full of colour and chocolate, but we hadn't eaten dinner yet so dessert was not on the menu yet. #newyork

8r4dsfeets A couple of feets and a few bums, but the crowd was crazy crazy.

8r4d Start spreading the news! We landed in NYC this evening just in time to wander through Times Square near our hotel for a couple hours. The weather is mild but the conditions in New York are hot and hopping. #newyork

8r4d Late breakfast? Lunch? Early dinner? It's two thirty in Toronto Airport with a couple hours to kill, and after waking up at 3am, timezone jumps are the worst! #travel

pixelazy After I had put my phone into airplane mode I caught a glimpse of the sunrise past my seat partners. #travel

8r4d Stage one complete, airplane number one boarded and awaiting takeoff with no signs of delay... yet. Jinx? #travel

If you're wondering, I'm taking a year off from corporate social media. No instagrams. No twitters. Definitely no facebooks. That doesn't mean I want to log off completely. This is a little applet I wrote on my own private space for a personal kind of social media I'm gonna try out. Stay tuned.

adventuredog Front seat puppy while we're parked and playing taxi. Only fourteen more years and she can drive, right?

8r4d After snowing for two days straight the park is nearly impassable, at least for a tiny dog and her lazy owner, but the night sky is now clear and temperatures are hopefully going to improve... eventually?