Wednesday, June 25

This morning started with morning prayer in Central Park before heading to Christ and St. Stephen’s Church. This Upper West Side church has a brown bag lunch program that feeds almost 100 people 5 days a week. We volunteered by packing the lunches, sorting out a clothing donation, passing out meal tickets and serving dessert.









After our time at Christ and St. Stephen’s, we went to Central Park to eat our lunch and to play and walk. From Central Park, we split into 2 groups. 1 group headed the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the other went to the Museum on Natural History.






At the Met, there was an exhibit on the fashion of superheroes. The costumes in the exhibit included the bat suit from “the Dark Knight” and the suit from “Iron Man.” This group also toured some of the permanent installations and the Jeff Koons exhibit on the Met’s rooftop garden. This group also spent some additional time hanging out in Central Park.




The second group headed to the Museum of Natural History and started their visit with a film in the planetarium about significant collisions in space. Then we tried to find a lot of the characters from the movie “Night at the Museum,” and found that the museum in the movie was very different from the real museum. We spent a lot of time similarities between the two, such as the Easter Island “Dumb Dumb” head, the dioramas, and the whale model in the marine life exhibit.




The second group subdivided: some went back to the Y to swim and relax, and several of us headed to the Museum of Modern Art. MOMA had a great exhibit on light that was lots of fun to photograph. We also enjoyed works by Pollock and Warhol.






We had dinner at John’s Pizzeria, near Times Square. After dinner, we did some souvenir shopping and then headed back to the Y for Compline and a good night’s sleep.