First real day in NYC and we had to traipse across the city with all our luggage. Public transportation is great, but a full size checked suitcase doesn’t really move very suavely through the metro gates (ask my dad…haha). Eventually we made it to 83rd St. and 2nd Ave to pick up the keys for apartment 4G from the tailor next door to the building. I’m kind of surprised he handed them over so easily, but I think my parent’s friends have a pretty excellent rapport around here (as the lady from 2G told us she was so happy we were friends with them). The apartment is small, cute, and MUCH more cost effective than a hotel. My mom kept warning me the apartment would be really small…well it’s about the same as my apartment at school so I wasn’t really shocked. After we dropped off all the luggage we headed off into the city (of which there was sunshine and gorgeous weather all weekend).
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| Our not-so-welcoming arrival to 4G. Boo MSU. |
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| Living area. aka MY couch-haha |
We stopped for a light brunch at a mexican taco restaurant where we had baked eggs with some sausage and spicey-ness. Highlight of the meal (or maybe lowlight??) was when the poor waiter knocked over my mom’s water glass which conveniently fell into our purses. Poor guy felt so bad, but we weren’t too torn up about it (no harm no foul).
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| K well picture wouldn't rotate, but you get the idea-YUM |
Mom had lined up tickets for TWO broadway shows on Saturday. We made it through Times Square for the first of many times in the week and saw the gazillions of people gawking at the huge screens and advertisements just like us. First show was “Billy Elliot” about the miner’s strike and a young boy with a talent for dancing, but a family far more concerned about the matters of the coal miners. The music and story were fantastic and the 12 or 13 year old boy who played the lead was an incredible dancer.
After the show we got lunch at Ruby Foo’s, an upscale Chinese restaurant with a fresh atmosphere (aka. Hip music playing and wait staff looking incredibly chic). A few sushi rolls to start (with some bud light…haha) and then shrimp and scallops with double pan fried noodles. YUM. Parents had Pad Thai and probably won’t be able to eat at No Thai ever again. Shame-not much can keep me from that restaurant. Then it was back to our second show, “Driving Miss Daisy” after some time wasting around Times Square. James Earl Jones is playing Hoke in DMD and he was incredible. The show only has three actors, but it is an incredible story about human connection and racial barriers of the 50s and 60s in Georgia. I highly recommend seeing at least the movie if you haven’t before.
Afterwards we were ready to head back to the apartment (with sore butts from the day at the theatre) but stopped to listen to the most interesting group of people in the subway playing Beatles and other music of comparable genre. They were AWESOME! But I couldn’t stop thinking about what an interesting conglomeration of people they were. People were dancing and it was just a really cool atmosphere. We stuck around for probably an hour and then made our way on the subway and to the apartment.
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| Awkward Beatles Group in Times Square Subway-SO good! |
Definitely not hard to fall asleep that night (or any night, for that matter) after waltzing around the city all day.
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| First time in Times Square |
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