When they arrived, I met them at their hotel in Times Square and then we headed uptown to eat at Tom's Restaurant (where they filmed the exterior shots of the diner in "Seinfeld"). The food was great! After dinner we took a twilight stroll through Riverside Park. The weather was perfect: warm, breezy...I wish New York would stay like that the whole year! Friday I had rehearsal and a celebration with my classmates, and I think they went to the Met. Saturday, I met them at South Ferry as they had taken the ferry to Staten Island that morning. We ate lunch and did some shopping around the city until evening when we ate dinner at L'Ecole (yummmmmmy)! On Sunday, Mom and Dad finished their bus tour in Brooklyn. They met me at 5 to go to church, and then we went for a walk through Central Park.
Monday we visited the Museum of Natural History and pretty much spent the whole day there.
It was awesome! We saw a star show narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and learned that every single particle on earth (including you and me) is made up from materials that were once in stars. Or something. It was a lot to swallow but pretty profound when you think about it. Tuesday we woke up VERY early to go see the taping of Good Morning America. As you can see, it wasn't a very good morning for us:
We didn't get to see much, but I was so tired that I don't really remember. When we got back to the hotel, we spent most of the day napping! We had a dinner at the 21 Club that night, care of Dud...
It was pretty darn good. After dinner we had theatre tickets. We saw the off-Broadway musical The Marvelous Wonderettes. It was a nostalgic type musical set in the 60s and then the 70s, and the music was a compilation of tunes from the era (think "Mr. Sandman", "Leader of the Pack", "It's my Party and I'll Cry if I want to"). Wednesday night we saw another show: "9 to 5" on Broadway. It was incredible! Everything - the dancing, the sets and set changes, the costumes, wigs and makeup, the singing, wow! I think that Dolly Parton wrote all or most of the songs and proved herself as a very talented songwriter. The actors were great and the story was uplifting. Did I mention that I liked it?
I think it was Thursday that we went on the boat tour around Manhattan. The tour guide was really amazing and we learned a lot about New York and its history.
I took this picture from inside the boat. It was really nice and very informative! I think Thursday we also saw the Titanic Exhibit at Discovery Times Square. It was AWESOME! I can't believe all those artifacts were just sitting at the bottom of the ocean for 70-odd years. A lot of it stayed pretty well preserved.
I think that pretty much covers it, although I did leave out Katz's Deli. Can't remember which day we went. It is famous for being the location of the cafe scene in "When Harry Met Sally." However, we did not find the food to be so great.
Overall, I had a lot of fun during their visit, but we sure did get tired out! New York is fun, but it can be totally exhausting :-)
Hey, thanks for posting this. It does sound like we had fun, doesn't it? Mostly I remember how tiring it was. So glad we could see all that with you!
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