This morning we did the Circle Line, a 2 hour boat trip around Manhattan that has some great views of Lady Liberty, the Manhattan skyline, Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey. I’ve started to get anxious about London and haven’t slept very well the past few nights. I’ve been doing research whenever I get the chance […]
Read more "Day Seven in NY: The Circle Line"Ground Zero affected me more than I thought it would. I came here five years ago, but things have changed a lot, mainly after a little museum opened late last year. We were both quite surprised at how it got under our skin. There was a school choir going through too, and when they finished […]
Read more "Day Six in NY: Ground Zero & The Empire State Building"You know those crazy old guys that stay in youth hostels? Meet Snoring Lamp Man. Snoring Lamp Man moved into our four bed dorm the same day we did. He’s from Birmingham. And he came here for a lamp. This lamp: You see, it’s the original Tiffany & Co lamp, and it’s really worth £20,000,000 (Tiffany’s […]
Read more "Life Lesson #13 – Snoring Lamp Man"We met up with Dennis again today and he showed us around Chelsea and the Lower West Side, including Greenwich Village. Highlights included seeing the Stonewall Inn, lunch at the famous Joe’s Pizza, and sipping a delicious Jamba Juice on the subway uptown to Mary Poppins. Inbetween shows, we had dinner at Sardi’s, a broadway […]
Read more "Day Five in NY: Greenwich Village & Sardi’s"When I made a list of all the shows I wanted to see in New York, there were 26. And I already felt like I’d squeezed out some goodies! The first big cut I made was to remove anything we could see in London, so unfortunately Wicked fell by the wayside. That killed me inside […]
Read more "Day Four in NY: Behind the Emerald Curtain"Today we visited the Museum of Modern Art. They have some amazing work there, including Starry Starry Night by Van Gogh which I’ve always adored. They also have the original concept boards for I Heart NY. After MoMA we popped past the International Center for Photography, then headed to our evening show; Anything Goes (it […]
Read more "NYC Day Three: MoMA and Nightlife"Today I learned that meeting a beautiful stranger on a subway is not as romantic as Madonna, James Blunt, and countless romcoms make it sound. If you’re ever on the subway sitting across from your partner, I don’t recommend making furtive glances and pretending you’re meeting them for the first time. Because you’ll probably lose […]
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