I felt like today was the embodiment of the Le Tigre song “My My Metrocard”

My mom and I took the bus to the city, and hopped on the A train to the South Street Seaport, where we caught the ferry.

There’s this public art installation called Waterfalls, which are these five artificial waterfalls along the East River. They were pretty cool.

First waterfall, under Brooklyn Bridge.

My video of the Brooklyn Bridge waterfall.

A view of the Manhattan skyline and the Brooklyn Bridge in the distance.

Second waterfall.

The statue.

Me in front of the Statue of Liberty.

Fourth waterfall.

A ferry like the one we were on, view from the south of the East River.

After the boat we went and got a much-needed lunch at this Irish place near the seaport (oh how I miss good pastrami). Next we walked up to the station and took the A train up to 57th street towards the Nokia flagship store.

Waiting for the A train.

It was sweltering in the subway, our train car was not air conditioned, even though it said so. On our walk to the store, it was so hot we decided to cool off in front of the fountains at Columbus Circle, in front of the Time Warner building.

My mom and I in front of the statue in the center of Columbus Circle.

Time Warner building across from Columbus Circle.

Then we moseyed in the blazing heat towards 5th Avenue, stopping at a Cafe Europa for some cool drinks and A/C (of course not to forget some New York cheesecake). It started to rain, as weather.com had predicted, at precisely 3:30 pm, and it rained on and off through the day. It was still very warm though as we walked through the few drops to the Nokia store (the squall had died down before we left the cafe)

I was so bedazzled with the phones and Internet devices that I forgot to take pictures. I played with the N85 and I’m totally getting it.

We did the obligatory visit to the flagship Apple store. My mom loves the glass elevator (as I do).

After that, we jumped in a cab to 88th Street and the Guggenheim. We went there a few years ago and the place looked like it needed a coat of paint, but I went online and they were having this really interesting-looking exhibition by this woman, Louise Bourgeois.

I couldn’t find the museum until I realized that the huge scaffold we were standing under was what they were using to refurbish the facade.

Guggenheim face-lift.

The exhibition was excellent…the lady’s sculpture was ho-hum, but these incredible installations she calls “cells” were incredible. I wish I could have taken pictures, but the museum staff was everywhere.

My mom and I in front of this huge steel spider.

Cabbed it back to the Port Authority, bussed it home.