Sunday 8th June and we are camped in the Radio City Apartments on West 49th St. It is an apartment all snugly fitted into a 3m by 3m room – still it works for us.

The luxury of our hotel in New Jersey is a distant memory – see below.

The short report on the golf tournament. I came in third this year after starting the last round in 3rd place. Not a bad result – but that 4th round in 4 days was the killer – nothing left in the tank to mount a challenge and the overnight leader played brilliantly to win by 10 strokes. The handicap committee will have work to do next year!! The courses were great and we had great fun with the usual group – plus a couple of newbies this year.

Today we are up early to take in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) and then do a Broadway matinee this afternoon (Bullets over Broadway – directed by Woody Allen). We caught the train from New Jersey to New York yesterday and we were in our hotel by midday. Train travel is so much less stressful than flying. We spent the afternoon at the MoMA (museum of Modern Art) – where we found that Picasso had captured the recent events in Australian politics

Tony working on the Budget

Joe Hockey trying to explain the budget

The budget itself

The collection at the MoMA is fantastic and only $18 to enter (for seniors!).

Weather is brilliant here – sunny and 30ish.

Images of our day out on Day 2 follow – the Blog software is doing strange things so I won’t spend much time describing our day – I have already done that once and it disappeared. Spent most of the day at the Metroplitan Museum of Art – skipped the theatre plan – then walked home through Central Park – brilliant!

Atrium at the Met

Goya’s ballerinas – in bronze in the foreground and in Oils in the background

Times Square last night