There’s a mysterious sense of achievement that you feel when you have been to all the “top places” mentioned in a city guide for a particular area. I love that feeling, I have it now for Midtown Manhattan.

I went to the Empire State building today and went up to the 86th floor and took some amazing shots of New York City. I am particularly proud of the fact that I went so early that the notorious line over there had not even been born yet. I did not wait at all and just went straight up. Another thing that made me a happy, happy tourist was that I took superb shots of the city and even took four stunning panoramic shots from up there. Love that fact!

After the Empire State building I headed to The Museum of Modern Art and on my way there I saw the Rockefeller Building, which had an amazing Atlas doing his thing holding the globe on his back, right in front of it. There were also fountains and exotic plants and all sorts of other interesting things.

I also caught a glimpse of the grand St.Patrick’s Cathedral…

Then I finally got to the MoMA, which is right across the street from the American Folk Art Museum and the Museum of Arts & Design. Once there, I explored the five floors of the architecture, paintings, photography, and sculpture galleries and tried to absorb the creativity and make it mine. There was a lot of garbage there though. Honestly, some “art” there was pure trash and I can only say that I can do so much better than that — both artistically and popularly. And I’m not even boasting or anything. Laugh. Here is the result of that attempt at taking the creativity in, I call it “Infinitely Idle” :

You can check out my Picasa album for some more of the pictures I took today, if that’s your thing. I am definitely going to do crazy things in my room when I get back to Amman, and you know I will call them art. After the Museum tour, I headed towards Times Square where I had lunch at Red Lobster and missed my train so consequently had to wait an hour and a half for the next one.

Is all, will write more when more happens. Stay good.