New York City Review
Just got back from NYC on Sunday. We went from the 29th through the 1st. We left around 11am on the train and arrived in the city around 1:30, got to the hotel after a short misdirection on the subway and got our room. We got a nice room you could see Times Square from the room, well a drop of it.
We dropped off our stuff and headed out for lunch, then headed back to the room and hung out for awhile since Dan was feeling kind of icky and it was raining outside so shopping and stuff wasn’t likely. We had dinner from the Deli in the hotel and it was good, before heading to bed. We didn’t do much the first day.
On the 30th Dan woke up first and went and picked up bagels, we ate in the room and got a semi late start. Headed out around 1pm because we were being semi-lazy, got to Wicked fairly quickly was only a couple of blocks from the hotel, we left early since it wasn’t right on broadway so we weren’t exactly sure where it was. The show was amazing. The songs were great, the story was good, it all came together amazingly. Dan had a few problems with it because it was not true to the book. Since I had never read the book it didn’t bother me at all. It was so worth it and it is probably something we will see again.
Got home after the show and rested in the room before heading out to dinner around 6ish. There was a nice restaurant across the street from the hotel that we ate at last time we were there. So we headed over, the food was great though the service was a bit slow since the waitress was in charge of about 15 tables. Got back to the room around 8:30/9pm and watched the Law and Order SVU marathon on USA.
Got up a bit late again on Saturday and had bagels again for breakfast. Headed out for the show a little early because we had to get wrist bands so we could get through security and into the hotel. Got to the show a bit early, since it was all of 3 minutes from the hotel (the hotel is right next to the Phantom of the Opera theatre and Spamalot is right next to The Phantom of the Opera). The seats were smaller then the ones in Wicked which kind of sucked. The show itself was hilarious. However, compared to Wicked it was just okay. They broke the 4th wall a bit too often and it didn’t work as escapism, which is fine, but part of what I like about the theatre. I am really glad we went, but we probably won’t see it again.
On the plus side I did get killer rabbit slippers.
Got home and got an early dinner from the deli. We then opened the curtains in the room and watched the people freezing in Time Square from our hotel room as we were nice and comfy and watching the Law and Order CI marathon on USA. It was a nice night. Wished each other Happy New Year. Headed to bed a bit early.
Got up on the first and packed everything up and headed to the subway. Caught our train and headed home. Got home, and hung out a bit there. Overall it was a great trip and really enjoyable I’m glad we did it, won’t have minded an extra day so that we would have had time to shop some, but I can always go back.