Seeing His Holiness, Sir Mr. Pope, in NY

My sister and I had some difficulty getting into the MoMa because the street was closed so the Pope could come down one of the adjacent roads. Luckily, my sister showed me how to get past the police barricade (you wait until their dealing with someone else and walk past them). Of course, a friend who we were meeting at the MoMa made it there another way, she got off at the subway stop that opened onto the closed road. : )

When we got out of the exhibit, it just happened to be time for the Pope to travel past, so we hung out and I tried to snap a photo. This is the best I could do:

Rare Pope sighting

I think this is supposed to be like seeing a rock star for some people, or like seeing Neil deGrasse Tyson for me. Once Mr. Pope had passed on by, I noticed a bit of irony in the address we were standing at to see him:

I’m going to hell

: )