The pearly girls, joan, marion, judy, sandy, joanie, jan and myself started our NYC day as per usual having breakfast in our hotel. We had a full agenda and left for the high line walk at 9:30 , taking the subway to the starting point. The high line walk is an elevated walkway built on an old elevated railway that is approximately 2 km in length. It follows the Hudson River for the most part and has beautiful planted gardens all along the way. Being that it is early fall, the summer plants were mostly finished and there were plenty of grasses, asters, lots of different colours, styles and varieties. There are many resting places along the route and people can be seen stopping for a rest along the way reclining on chaises and benches. The garden way is also scattered with different art works from all over the world. We came across a sculpture of silver shoes in the bushes that were the art work of an artist from qualicum BC.
At the end of the walkway we entered the Whitney Gallery. The 7th floor was dedicated to American artists and we enjoyed, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Hopper and others. There was an interesting display of many different types of mobile art.  Another floor was dedicated to artistic protest and we felt it was depressing to witness.
Leaving the gallery we walked to the nearby Chelsea Market where we had lunch in an Italian cafe, quite delicious pastas, salads and frittatas. All over the Chelsea area we visited many small art galleries, enjoyed a gelato and some windy weather. Soon it was time to head back to  our hotel to rest up for the evening adventure.
We all met up again for drinks in the hotel rooftop bar before heading to the subway.  Our evening was spent in the Bronx at the New York botanical gardens.  This required a  long subway ride including an 8 block  walk to the gardens. We had purchased tickets to the night showing of the Chuhily exhibit  and it did not disappoint !  Large colourful sculptures lit with floodlights were spread about the grounds. It was a magical sight! After our tour of the gardens and exhibits we returned to our hotel via bus/subway and bought some food at the deli on the corner. It had been a very long day.....fit bits were telling us it was over 25,000 steps!
We retired to one room and shared some deli food and wine before retiring for the night.