Our adventure began on Saturday, when we took the 11:30am Bolt Bus from Philly to Manhattan. We had, erm, slept in a little, so we were rushed getting to the bus. I was thus cranky from not having any coffee, and we hadn't eaten anything by the time we got off the bus at 1:30pm. SO I made a stop at Dunkin Donuts, and we stopped to share a slice of New York pepperoni and ricotta pizza, which was super duper delicious. With our refreshments in hand, and my headache fading, we began a walk up to Central Park. We had tickets to see Chicago at the Ambassador Theater at 8pm, so we had decided to spend our time before the show walking Central Park. We also stopped at a pharmacy to pick up some batteries for the camera. Finally, about 15 blocks later, we made it to the park. It was a beautiful, bright day, and pretty warm for February. We didn't even bring jackets!
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| Danielle with the NY Pizza at Times Square (plus one of our favorite T.V. shows is in the background). |
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| Rory in front of a sweet tree bridge at Central Park. |
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| No idea what this building is, but thought it looked cool through the trees at Central Park. |
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| Danielle in front of the large lake at Central Park (and there is a wedding party taking pictures in the background :). |
After walking through some of the park, we made our way west to 9th Ave, home of our favorite NY hang-out: Empanada Mama! Empanada Mama serves, obviously, delicious empanadas and great pitchers of red wine sangria for decent prices. The place is tiny and crowded, but absolutely worth the experience. We timed our date at Empanada Mama poorly, so by the time we had paid we still had plenty of time before the show. We decided to check out Times Square, where we (Danielle) did some shopping at Forever 21, Swatch, and Fossil. I will admit that it was a success: Danielle found a sexy yellow dress :) FOR CHEAP :D We also saw a dude walking an awesome goat with a NY stocking hat on.
Finally, it was time for our show. Chicago is a fun musical if you can get past the adult content. I remember enjoying the movie several years ago, but I would guess any musical is better live (at least if it is live on Broadway). We had a blast, and I've been singing "All That Jazz" for three days! I won't get into detail about the show, but I should mention that our seats were third row from the back of the theater in the balcony, but once the show started I forgot all about that. It was wonderful.
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| Sorry it's blurry! In front of Chicago Poster. |
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| If you can't tell, the red sign in the background is for Chicago |
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| Inside the Ambassador. |
After Chicago, we went to Dave and Buster's near Times Square: we didn't get a hotel room, and our bus back to Philly was scheduled to leave at 6:30am on Sunday, so we needed to burn a few hours. We had also looked up movie theaters in the area and wanted to see Safe House at 12:50am...long story short, the wait at D&B was ridonculous, so we played a few games, got ripped off on tickets (meaning we didn't do well), and then left after buying two $10 bacardi/cokes. Instead of continuing to wait, we grabbed a table right away at Applebee's, ate quickly, and then just barely made the end of the previews before Safe House. I thought the movie was pretty good. Danielle and I are Ryan Reynolds fans, and throw in Denzel and it's like forget about it! Unfortunately for us, the movie let out a little before 3am, so we still had a while before our bus came.
A couple police officers on the corner outside the movie theater pointed us to an all-night diner a few blocks away, so we headed over there. I have to say that I have never eaten as slowly as I did at that diner. It was surprisingly packed, and we did not want to have to find another place to go. We stretched out Danielle's cheesecake and my eggs and pastrami for over two hours. Finally, we decided it was time to leave and headed to the bus station. We found a few pharmacies to hang around, and read magazines until the Megabus finally arrived. Once in our comfy seats in the second level of the double decker, we both crashed, not waking up again until our stop.
What a crazy trip! New York is a fun city, though, and totally worth it. After we got home and slept it off, Sunday evening it was back to real life, and again back to same old same old with school:( So that's all for now, folks. Happy Lent starting tomorrow, and be kind.
-Rory and Danielle
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