My last two days in New York were spent walking around Greenwich Village visiting the building from Friends as well as 12 St. Luke's Place, the Huxtable house from the Cosby Show. It's a little part of New York that has an entirely different atmosphere - there are so many different restaurants and cafes and the streets are a lot smaller making for a much more friendly atmosphere. This is where a lot of filming takes place for movies. I also stood on the corner of Lexington and 57th Avenue and took a picture of Bloomingdales - the street was VERY busy and crowded so I decided that I maybe didn't have to venture across so I turned around and headed for the Guggenheim Museum. Unfortunately not all of their galleries were open but I still got to look at works by Picasso and Van Gogh, which was just outstanding. I kept thinking to myself, "you are standing in front of an ORGINAL work by Vincent Van Gogh!!" - I couldn't even believe it myself! I then headed up a few blocks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art - this place is absolutely massive and I was so excited to walk in and find on the first floor that they had a medieval section!! They had tapestries, murals, paintings and even full suits of armour!! They had armour worn by Henry II!! The bookshop was amazing - I wanted to buy every single medieval book in there but that would have entailed a lot of heavy luggage to carry around! I had such fun but unfortunately couldn't stay as long as I wanted because I had to go back to the hostel and change to go and watch the 'Sphinx Laurettes' perform at Carnegie Hall! There was no way that I could go to Carnegie Hall dressed in Jeans and my 'I love NY" t-shirt!! Can you believe that some of the girls in my dorm room didn't know what Carnegie Hall was?? I was gob smacked. The Sphinx Laurettes consisted of a couple of string soloists (4 violins and a cello) as well as the Harlem String Quartet accompanied by a chamber orchestra. The sound in Carnegie Hall is absolutely outstanding and I was able appreciate the wonderful music along with the majestic beauty and sound of the hall. It was a truly amazing experience. I also took the Metro-North Railway to the town of New Haven, two hours outside New York. My impressions of the town itself were pretty average. It was very dirty, litter lying everywhere and just not very pretty at all. Yale University was a different story altogether. This campus is absolutely beautiful - there is so much history in the university. The buildings are influenced by gothic architecture and are all huge and majestic. The university is a little city within itself. There are little cafes and boutiques along with bookshops and gift shops. I was not able to go into any of the buildings due to the fact that I am not a student there (I wish I was though after visiting this place!) but I did see a few pictures. The students all live on campus and therefore at lunchtime it was very quiet - all the students return to their residence halls for lunch I presume. All the students are all very patriotic all decked out in their Yale gear. There are five different shops on campus just to buy Yale merchandise!! Something that UWA lacks in a big way is patriotism, which is very sad. There 'gymnasium' or as other like to call it sports complex looks more like a castle than anything else!! It is absolutely massive!!My last night in New York is going to be spent having an early dinner and then packing so that I can be ready to head for Boston in the morning. I am leaving by Amtrak train so have to tackle the subways with all my gear beforehand - should make for an interesting morning. Turnstiles in subways don't really allow for anything other than a person so it's going to be difficult but I shall grin and bear it and before the day comes to an end shall be setting my feet in the city of Boston, Massachusetts!!