The Cloisters

Sylvie and I took advantage of our unemployment last Thursday and spent an afternoon at The Cloisters. It was a gorgeous day and the museum is awesome. Don't let the distance from midtown keep you away, it's worth the travel time.

Some of the columns are authentic and some of them are not. They do an excellent job of seamlessly filling in the missing pieces.

It's very cool to be walking through a room full of statues and paintings, turn a corner and be in a recreated chapel like this one.

This courtyard is surrounded by the tables for the museum's cafe.

The fountain was very popular with the birds. I managed to catch this one drinking.

The herbs are divided into sections, this is in the "Magical Plants" section. We were able to restrain ourselves and did not pull any up to see the roots.