Coolness in many different forms

Last night was a raging success. Emma and I went to see Sleep No More. Its the only time I've ever had to run while watching a play. I loved it. We all had to wear identical masks and were forbidden to speak. This is my mask:

The effect at night in a really dark building was very eerie and it changed the way you viewed the people around you. 

We had dinner afterwards in a train carriage in the restaurant next door to the hotel where the show was. The show went until after 10, so dinner was really late and it was after 12 by the time I fell into bed, but it was really worth it. 

It's cold today. Yesterday was lovely - 14c and sunny. It's still sunny today but the temp has plummeted. When we left the hotel at 10:00 this morning it was 1c. By 2pm it had hit 6c but was starting to fall again. We walked a long way uptown to the Frick collection. The Frick collection is the private collection of one of the late Victorian US industrialists which is housed on his NY town house. Apparently when it was built in the early 1900s, the papers described it as 'a bungalow style building with a picture gallery'. This is mr frick's little bungalow:

It faces Central Park east. We got there before opening so we sat in Central Park and watched squirrels playing. 

We went through the art collection (which includes holbein's portrait of Thomas Cromwell, which was cool) and then I saw Emma off to the airport in a taxi. Btw-Emma says the taxi is about $60 to the airport and when she caught the train from JFK to Manhattan on Saturday it took about an hour and a half because it was an all stops train.

I went back to the hotel via the subway.

 

The subway stations all have really lovely mosaic signs.

I've sorted out the credit card problem-apparently it was locked because I got the number wrong three times on one occasion. Now I know how to sort that out if it happens again and I have plenty of cash. It wasn't too much of a problem in any event because cards are used here for everything with only a signature.

I feel much better after the weekend. Seeing Emma has really cheered me up, I've sorted out groceries and my card and I will see you in 5 days time. Things are looking up! Now I just have to get an early night tonight. 

I hope you are ok. Don't worry too much about the packing- as long as you have the passports and tickets, we can sort everything out later. Love you both.

Ps: there is a Lego store in the Rockefeller building that is apparently really worth seeing....