Day 6: Celebrity Art

Despite our fatigue and pain, all was forgotten when Katarina got sight of the Monets, Matisses and Van Goghs. The latter was surrounded by a crowd of enthisuastic tourists a little reminiscent of the Mona Lisa. I could help get swept up by the celebrity of these artists. All things intellectual go out the window and you just feel like you are in the presence of royalty whether you like it or not and when you see Van Gogh's paintings you can't help but like them. However we'd reached breaking point and even though our guidebook had described the Met's modern art collection as not worth seeing, it filled many rooms and almost crippled our feet.