Lazy sunday with a 100% chance of humidity.

It was a solo trip to church today. Which felt slightly more awkward alone because the 11:00 church is a family ward. Oh well. Sleep is more worth it to me. It was really nice today though. It was fast sunday, so it was a fast and testimony meeting and I really enjoyed it.

On my way back home I stopped at an H&M just to look around for fun. Then I got a slice of pizza at the little cafe on the corner right by apartment for lunch. I needed to make plans for today! I still had no idea what I wanted to do.

I eventually decided to go to see the temple since I still hadn't seen it. It was then that I noticed about 5 blocks below the temple there was an Art and Design museum listed on the map. So that settled it. I would visit the west side of central park today.  It turned out to be a really nice area! Columbus drive has a lot of neat things to see and it seems to be a pretty nice area. I would have explored it more but it was SO hot. I just wanted to get inside the museum.

It was a fairly small little museum, especially in comparison to the other two I have already been too since I've been too. But I found it to be really interesting. It was a VERY quiet museum experience. Since it was so small and just not as popular as the well known ones, everyone just seemed to wander around in silence. On each small floor of the museum there would only be about 10 or less people in the room with you and everyone just wandered around quietly. You could have heard a pin drop on some of the floors. That made it a bit weird..

Nevertheless, I enjoyed myself. Especially their special exhibition: Swept away.
http://collections.madmuseum.org/code/emuseum.asp?emu_action=advsearch&rawsearch=exhibitionid/,/is/,/551/,/true/,/false&profile=exhibitions
Not quite all the things that were on display you can see here. I took a picture of my favorite thing and I'll post it below. But most of the things were created using dirt, lint, dust, or charcoal. Oh! and my favorite - smog. There were amazing sculptural pieces of art that were created by using these elements. Incredible! Who would have thought?

After I finished up at the museum, I walked up to 65th street to see the temple. It was neat to see it stuck right on the corner surrounded by skyscrapers. However it looks like it has no windows. At least from the two sides that were exposed. Does it not have natural light inside? Weird. It's not my favorite temple to look at, but it was still neat to see here.

At this point I was already super hot, so I took the subway back home and went back to my apartment. I was meaning to only be there for a bit while I cooled back down and rested for a bit, but I couldn't get the motivation to go back outside after I fell asleep. So it was a lazy day from about 5 on.

It's a 4 day work week this week! Hooray for the 4th of July! And mother and Emily are arriving on Tuesday after work! Hooray!

Alexandre Orion's Art less pollution - skull art.
This was one of my favorite things on display here
because of how the artist created it. He would wipe off
the exhaust that sticks to the walls in subways, tunnels,
underapasses, etc and then throw the rag in a bucket of water.
He would then let all the water evaporate leaving behind
just the sludgy exhaust. The sludge would eventually
dry out leaving behind a powder material that
allows him to create things like this! Incredible!
I love the skulls.

Pretty window art in one of the stairwells
between floors.

Manhatten Temple!

But there are basically no windows... weird?