The Gavin is good! See what I did there? Replaced Union with Gavin? Sure it might be a little dated but I have been very busy...
With what you ask?
Sheesh, can't we just hang out without you always asking so many questions?
As I said before I was in NY last week for some work. It turned out that we had nights to ourselves this time so we decided to do mix it up in the Empire State.
You know what that means! Crappy camera phone pics!
Let's go!
First up...The Empire State Building! So large it has it's own zip code. Although as interesting as that is...it's so large you can see all of NYC from it. And that's what we did, went up to the very top to look at the city below.
It was a very moving moment as I thought of all the people that have been up there when coming to NY and just knew they were going to make it.
All of those broken dreams...you could practically smell them while waiting in line....
I think it was the smell of broken dreams....sorta smelled like a diaper full of shrimp. You decide.
Although just a note to self...if its cold on the streets then it ungodly freezing at the top of the tallest building in NYC.
Yea...seems like common sense now to me as well...but there I was at the top wondering how the water in my eyes just froze.
Yay Global Warming!
So enough of this outdoor crap. The next night we learned our lesson and decided to catch a Broadway Play. Celly said the Producers was good so we bought our tickets from TKTS and wondered up to the theater. Then a so-so night turned into a omg-what-does-that-awesome-sign-say night. That's right Tony Danza was the lead roll in The Producers!
I know!
We were both surprised he was still alive as well!
And he is just as good as you would expect him to be from watching him on Who's the Boss.
Meh...slightly worse.
But by now we had the Broadway bug and wanted to actually see a good show...
Good news...It just so happened that one of my friends since I was 4 years old was in Wicked. Bad news...Wicked is so popular that they actually have a permanent sign made up in their lobby that says they are sold out of tickets.
But they give you an option where you can wait outside in the freezing cold for a raffle of 14 tickets with over 300 other people.
Yea...we didn't get them.
But there is a back up option to that back up option. You can stand in the cancellation line and sometimes you get lucky.
And we did. After 7 hours of waiting in line (either outside or inside) we finally were allowed to purchase 2 tickets each at $110 dollars.
To be honest, I would have paid doubled and waited twice as long. Kristina was amazing in the show...but then again I wouldn't have expected anything less.
So now that we got our good Broadway show in it was time to class up the joint with a visit over to Museum of Modern Art.
What might be the most impressive thing is the building itself. Very well done. Although any art in the MoMA can be divided into 3 categories.1) Very Cool. Picasso's, Monet's and the must have of any girl's dorm room...Van Gogh's Starry Night.
2) Clever. Like a zen garden that...uhh...auto zens itself. Yea...your just gonna have to trust me on that one...
3) Lazy. The all blank white room that had the lights flash on for 5 seconds then off for 5 seconds. I really hope they didn't pay a lot for that one...
Enough of this touristy crap...let's live like the locals!
We did a search on the interweb to find the best rated local restaurant for burgers. The top result was The Corner Bistro on 4th Street. So we hopped on a subway and walked a few blocks to where we found this little hole in the wall place.The place is a normal size bar and then a little tiny room in the back that seats maybe 20 people when its all filled up. You wait in this line (about 45 minutes) through the bar (where they give you drinks while you wait) to where you can go sit down.
No menus...your choice is Hamburger or Cheeseburger...thats it.
And in fact the waiter never said one thing to us the entire time...some might not dig that but I like a hint of arrogance when someone serves me food.
So how was it? Amazing. Easily one of the top 5 burgers.
And I guess that sums up my trip to NYC...or at least those are the only camera phone pictures I took...
It was really just too damn cold to bring my hands out of my pockets at any point.
Although a girl I once dated said that the only thing she wanted in life was to be in love....
A close second was warm towels when she gets out of the shower.
After this trip...I totally feel her on the warm towel thing. Glad to be back in Florida where its warm =]
