New York days 3 & 4

Our third day in New York began with a gentle stroll through the top end of Central Park. It is so peaceful in some places it's hard to believe you're in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the world. We walked around the massive reservoir, through woods and past various sports fields. We soon diverted back onto the streets to find something to eat. We found a little deli which did pretty good sandwiches and bagels. After food we walked back across the park and decided to pay a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art which is on the edge of Central Park along fifth avenue. The museum itself was massive, and free, although they like you to make a donation which we did. I'm not much of an art lover as I don't really get it, but there's some pretty impressive, interesting and weird stuff in there. We saw paintings by Monet amongst others, as well as Greek statues and a nice little roof garden. 

After the museum we hopped onto the metro downtown to find more food. We settled for a place which does amazing Mexican food, had a burrito each and made our way back to the hostel. 

That evening we had tickets for a comedy show at the Broadway Comedy Club. We had arrived at the club in good time and waited to be seated. We were told by our ticket seller that we would have a choice of where to sit, which appealed to us as no one really wants to sit at the front at a comedy gig. However this was not the case. When we were shown into the room, we were pointed to two seats at the front and told they seat everyone front to back. We reluctantly took our seats. As there was an 'at least 2 alcoholic drinks per person' rule, we were told drinks were reasonably priced. This was also not true. The ticket seller had done well so far. Despite all this the comedy was mostly good. We saw 7 acts in total with a host who's been on MTV. Some of them really funny, some not so much. Overall it was a pretty good show. Afterwards we walked back to the metro through Times Square. It is ridiculously bright at night and still pretty busy. 

On our fourth day in the city we left the hostel around lunchtime. We went back downtown again and found some food. We spent the rest of the day just bumbling around. We went to Macy's, the huge department store, looked at Maddison square garden, although not a particularly pretty building, and had another walk along fifth avenue, stopping in the Lego shop for the third time that week. We went back to the hostel to relax after more walking and popped in to town later that evening for some 'mac n cheese' which was very good. We saw the Empire State Building lit up in various colours and then headed back to the hostel. 

The next morning we were up at 7:30 as we had a bus to catch. We made our way to Times Square once again, this time with all our bags, which is not easy on the metro at that time, and had an all you can eat breakfast. We then walked about 10 blocks to where we would be catching our bus to the capital, Washington, D.C.