Yesterday, the sun came out, and we took a walk up 5th Avenue to a favorite old haunt of mine, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  When I lived here, my fifth floor walk-up apartment was in a run-down brownstone around the corner, and I visited the place often.

The Met is an amazing place, with the Rembrandts, Goyas, Miros and paintings that you would have to spend days to really see and appreciate.  There is also an impressive collection of Egyptian art and sculpture, Greek and Roman, Renaissance and Baroque - then you get to the home decor and fashion sections, and you gotta go "Wow!" 

But there is one section of the Met that is an absolute must if you ever visit New York with a child.  Since I went with a big kid, we had to stop by the hall with all of the medieval armour.

It's a whole huge room full of knights!

Some are on horseback. 

Some are just standing around. 

Others are behind glass. 

The duds at the right were among the fanciest (and I'm sorry about the glare from my flash).  They belonged to The Earl of someplace, and they were a lot more colorful than any of the others - which were mostly gray.

It's such a fun room because there are usually lots of awestruck kids pressing their noses against the glass cases.  

As we started to make out way toward the exit, one little guy was tugging at his dad's sleeve, asking,

"Um, Dad, how did these guys ... you know?"