So over winter break Martha and I got to take an exciting trip to NYC!
We had a blast. We got to stay at the Appalachian Loft which is run by my former employer, ASU. Luckily I’m an alum, so we got an amazing rate.
It’s basically like a hostel for students, so we slept in a bunk room.
But there was a lovely view and the common space and kitchen were beautiful.
We got up super early every day and hit the city. First Rockefeller Center.
We did the NBC studio tour and learned all kinds of fun facts about SNL. I also got to play weather-woman for the “tour video studio.” Also, TV studios are really small. They look so much bigger on TV!
The ice skating rink was also smaller than I thought it would be, but very pretty. All the Christmas lights were up and the tree was huge!
Also huge was the crowd at the Lego store, where they had Lego replicas of all the statues in Rockefeller Center AND the Center itself with Lego people iceskating. Very cool.
Then to Times Square to buy theater tickets.
We got there early so we had time to grab empanadas from a food cart. Gotta love the street food.
We ended up with amazing orchestra tickets to Avenue Q which was technically off Broadway, but had been on Broadway back in 2004 for a few years. I’ve wanted to see it for a while – it’s like the Book of Mormon of its day.
So being off Broadway was cool because they have cigarette/snack guys and bartenders that bring you drinks. The show was awesome and hilarious. Overheard exchange of the night:
Dude 1: I didn’t know there was going to be graphic puppet sex.
Dude 2: Didn’t you see the sign outside?
Dude 1: I thought that was a joke!
Here’s us dressed up in our fancy theater clothes. We are standing in front of the Loft’s handy-dandy metro map which we used ALOT! We were about 1 block from two different lines, but we managed to get everywhere we were trying to go.
The next morning we got up and went to an awesome breakfast at the “quintessential modern American Jewish deli” - (they had a sign… which sadly we didn’t get a picture of). It was delicious. Martha’s cultured work friends had given her a list of restaurant suggestions, and they did not let us down.
Then we walked all through Central Park on the way to the Met.
After the Met, we did try to win theater tickets for the Book of Mormon, but sadly we didn’t win the lottery. In case you don’t know the Book of Mormon is sold out until Feb., but you can enter a day-of-drawing to win tickets. There were probably over 300 people at this lottery. It was, not surprisingly, a fun crowd, but not great odds.
So we decided to buy tickets to How to Succeed in Business (without really trying) instead. Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame was headlining and it was INCREDIBLE. Great, great, great show. Very classic Broadway fun. We were close enough to throw things at Daniel (but we didn’t).
Also, on the way there I almost ran into Samuel L. Jackson in the intersection. Didn’t get a picture though, sadly.
Okay, so that’s about halfway… To be continued tomorrow.
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