I am writing a lot in this post to remind myself of what we did. You don't have to read it all, you can just look at the pictures.
Tim stayed with a friend from high school, Cameron, while he was in NYC. We decided to book a hotel for the one night I would be there because I didn't want to impose on Cameron and we didn't know his housing accommodations etc. But when Cameron offered to let me stay with him also for that one night I was there, we decided to cancel our hotel and stay with Cameron. I was happy about saving that money we would have spent on the hotel.
On Saturday morning, Tim, Cameron and I ate breakfast at a place called Sarabeth's, which was on the upper east side of Manhattan. Can I just say it was delicious?! I loved it. I got apple cinnamon french toast which had chunks of apple and appley sauce on the inside of the bread and bananas on top. It was so good! I'm salivating just thinking about it.
We stopped by TKTS to see if any of the shows we wanted to see were on sale. Although I had no idea what Pippin was about, Tim said he had heard good things about it and the tickets were half off, so I decided to go to that. Tim got a ticket for another show. I will talk more about Pippin later.
After we bought our tickets we made our way to the top Empire State Building. The picture above is from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building.
After the Empire State Building, it was almost time for Tim to go to his show, but we made one more stop before he did. We went to St. Patrick's Cathedral and there was scaffolding up all over the outside and the inside, which was a little disappointing. But the few stained glass windows we could see were beautiful!
It was time for Tim to go to his show and I still had a little time before mine started, so I went to the Rockefeller Center and found this interesting sculpture. The sculpture is by Jeff Koons and it is called Split-Rocker.
I loved the show! The acrobatics (some of the actors were former circus performers), the music (Stephen Schwartz wrote the music), the story line, it was all so good! It's about a prince named Pippin, who just graduated from university and is trying to figure out what to do with his life. He is looking for something that will bring him fulfillment in life.
He has a lead player/narrator for his life and the musical portrays his struggles to find fulfillment in his life. There were a few questionable parts and it was dark at times but it was all part of him finding himself and it was just all so good!
I was leaving on a 7 pm bus so after the show, Tim met me outside the theater and we found a place to eat. Tim wanted to see another show that night so we found the theater where they were having a lottery for the evening performance of a show he wanted to see, then we found a restaurant nearby to eat at. We found a place called Nizza, which was an Italian restaurant. I got Gnocchi Al Forno, which was really good! Although I really liked it, it was pretty expensive and I was still kind of hungry afterwards, but it's okay. It was worth the experience!
Then it was time for me to head for the bus and I was happy to have the whole back half of the bus to myself. :) We got back to Arlington in good time. But the usual 30 minute metro ride home ended up taking 100 minutes. I got on the metro at 11:30 pm and I did not get off until 1:10 am. It was great fun or something like that. I was glad to have a book and magazine and music to listen to while waiting.
It was a fun trip and thanks Tim for letting your older sister come and hang out with you in NYC!
1 comment:
So glad you had fun in New York . That's quite a view from the top of the Empire State Building. You took some great pics.
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