Another big day. Another awesome day! We started today with a visit to Grand Central Station. And grand it is.
Our next stop was to be Bryant park but for the life of us we couldn't find it. As I said in an earlier post we are women not navigators. The next point of call was going to be B & H camera store to tease dad and Ken as it is apparently a massive multi storey centre like nothing we've ever seen for anything and everything cameras and photography. Unfortunately we got a little, umm I'd like to say sidetracked but no, we got lost. Note to self: next time I travel make sure to get an international data package do I can see a map and get directions on my phone!
Next stop was Madame Tussaud's. There are some really awesome realistic models and then there are some that are downright scary and look absolutely nothing like their human celebrity. Jennifer Aniston for example was scary. I think Emily managed a selfie with 80-90% of the wax figures there! It wasn't a bad way to fill in a couple of hours. But I do feel like if you've seen 1 Madame Tussaud's you've seen them all.
For lunch today we went to the Star Dust Diner. At this diner all the wait staff are employed on their ability to sing because in between taking orders, and delivering our meals and drinks they sing to entertain the diners. It was such good fun and thoroughly entertaining but somewhat crowded. Emily would now like to be al Star Duster. When these guys and gals aren't working at the diner they are either having dance, acting and vocal classes or auditioning for Broadway shows.
For lunch we ordered a Be Bob a Luba burger - a cheese burger with mushrooms and fries.
It was quite good - filling! To spend a little more time there to enjoy the atmosphere we took one for the team and ordered dessert. Just got 2 scoops ice cream. They were massive scoops and we ended up rolling out of there.
Next stop was a walk to and through Central Park. I can only imagine how pretty it must look in summer when everything is green. Despite everything being brown except the grass, it was beautiful to be in a park in the middle of the concrete jungle that is New York. And there were squirrels! Lots of them. They are just the cutest little things scurrying and ferreting in the fallen leaves for food. We could have easily spent hours watching these little guys. They're not as friendly as the ones in St James park in London though. Those guys will eat nuts out of your hands! We went past the ice skating rink but opted not to skate.
We did manage to find Tiffany's and had a wonder around inside. Oh my god there were 5 levels of jewellery. I saw a ring that I fell in love with that someone was purchasing and when I asked her how much it was I really didn't like what I heard! $2000!!! I thought it looked like it would've been worth $500-600. Sad face! So window shopping was all it was going to be for us.
Whilst waiting for our hop on hop off bus to take us to a stop nearer to where we wanted to visit next, I bought us a bottle of Coke from a street vendor. Now to buy a bottle from 7/11 it costs $2.29 but this guy charged $4 each! What a rip off!
Anyway, we were hoping to get to the "Ugly Christmas sweater" shop to see if we could pick up some sweaters however when we got to the stop we thought was near the shop we realised it actually wasn't - God we're good navigators.
So we stayed on the bus and did the loop back to Times Square.
We had dinner at the local pizza shop tonight. 1 slice each is more than enough. It was probably equivalent to 2-3 slices of Australian pizza. I personally prefer Aussie pizzas - just saying.
Tonight we attended our first Broadway show! We saw Something Rotten at the St James theatre. Such a beautiful old theatre with the most stunning chandelier. We bought our tickets from a little shop in Times Square and I admit I was a bit dubious as to whether the tickets were legit. We bought tickets on the balcony for $? We weren't convinced the tickets were legitimate until we got to the theatre and the tickets were accepted. But not only were they accepted we got upgraded to closer, better seats! How awesome! Emily was just a little excited. The show was incredible. So much fun, thoroughly entertaining and full of puns.
At the end of the show we lined up outside with a couple of dozen other die hard musical theatre fans to get autographs and photos with the cast. Most of the cast members came out and we're happy to sign autographs and pose for photos. Those that weren't simply slipped out another door. I think we met with most of the leads.
It was a late night but an awesome end to another beaut day.
Until tomorrow,
Yvette & Emily xx
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