First off breakfast of homemade granola and fresh fruit in the hotel restaurant, then off to the Metropolitan Art Museum to see the "Big Bambu: You Can't, You Don't, And You Won't Stop".
This "site-specific" installation designed by identical twin brothers Doug and Mike Starn (born 1961 in NJ) is a truly amazing "growing and changing sculpture" made of over 5,000 interlocking freshly cut bamboo poles, connected by over 50 miles of colorful nylon rope. Located outdoors on the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, it is only there from April 27 - October 31. It is continually being added to by the two artists as well as a team of rock climbers! 
It measures over 100 feet long and 50 feet wide and 50 feet high! You can sign up for a short tour but I got there too late, 
so I just wandered around with most of the other people. It's a very good idea to get there early, as the first tours start at 9:30am and by the time I left around 11:00am, there was quite a crowd. The thing about going on the tour is you get to walk up the bamboo paths all through the maze including way on top which must offer an amazing view over Central Park. I imagine you feel like a bird! If you are in NYC before Halloween I'd say GO for sure! p.s.. It is made possible by Bloomberg (the generous Mayor of NYC!) I also visited the "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" which hosts for the first time a large collection of period dresses from the Brooklyn Museum.
I hope to get Lulu back to the Met tomorrow for both exhibits. We had appointment at Bergdorf's for a haircut for Lulu (recommended by all the cousins as THE PLACE to go in NYC for anything hair related) and so I met her there.
Looking even lovelier than possible (!) we proceeded down to the 5th floor cafe to meet Elizabeth Richards - Willie's spectacular girlfriend the infamous Katherine Richards from Houston's older sister!
Elizabeth looks a lot like Katherine but tiny tiny. Having graduated a few years back from Skidmore College, she is a freelance stage manager for off-Broadway shows,
has her own studio apartment on the way upper East side, has a nice boyfriend with a good job, and loves living in NYC! It was really great to meet her. After looking around at all the fabulous clothes on sale, we parted ways as Lulu went to visit Cary at the new apartment she and her good friend Meredith will be sharing, and I headed back to the hotel to rest for our fun dinner tonight.
After a lazy couple of hours, my outstanding niece Betsy Head (who is a Kelly Scholar at I.U. Business School) came in from New Jersey where she has spent the summer as an intern working for Unilever in their marketing department. Cary and Meredith joined us all for dinner at Bistro Milano, a hopping Italian restaurant on 55th between 5th & 6th.
We got to hear all about Cary and Meredith's new apartment where it sounds like they have their work cut out for them as right now the furniture consists of a mattress on the floor! But they are figuring it out and having a lot of fun in the process. 
Home to The London Hotel and straight to the fitness center for Lulu and I.
Dinner at Bistro Milano was toooooo good!
The blog and your pictures are fantastic!
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