Days 54 – Wednesday June 13, 2007 – New York, New York
Once again, Wednesday started pretty late. After arriving in Manhattan, in typical New York style, we shoved everyone aside on our way over to the ½ price ticket booth. =0 When we got there, ironically, they were closed. To our dismay, the ticket booth didn’t open until 3pm. With some extra time on our hands, we took a stroll around Times Square, before deciding to join the line at the ticket booth around 2pm. We figured lining up early would allow us to get tickets right at 3pm. In turn, we would be able to make it uptown to the Guggenheim Museum before it closed. After all, we needed to do at least one City Pass activity today, if we are going to complete them all.
Normally they post what tickets are available for the evening performances at 2:30pm. This gives people thirty minutes to think about what show they want to see before the booth opens. Unfortunately, today they didn’t post the shows until two minutes before they opened. Jasmine and I had already gone through a list of shows we thought might be available, so we weren’t completely blind in our decision making. In the end, we decided to see The Color Purple. It was a debate between nicely packaged family friendly musicals and deeper darker not so family friendly
The Guggenheim Museum is another world famous New York art museum. The attractive exterior of the building is going through major renovations and scaffolding surrounds it. To our dismay, many of the exhibits inside were also closed for outside construction access. Out of the six floors, two were completely off limits and one was partially closed. Getting into the elevator, we heard someone say it only took about thirty minutes to get through the entire museum. To be honest, at that point, we didn’t know what to expect. In the end, it took us about an hour to completely maneuver through the open areas of the museum. Personally, I liked it much more that the Metropolitan Art Museum, but it was much smaller. Shawn Reece’s
I wish that we had more time to explore Central Park. We did take about forty-five minutes to walk through the park, but it is so big. I remember in San Francisco Jasmine and I took an entire day to explore Golden Gate Park, which is similar in size. With that said, we didn’t take the time to stop much, but we enjoyed the walk tremendously. We started at the reservoir and walked south for quite a while, before finally emerging on the western edge of the park. In the middle of it, we passed an open area where concerts are regularly held. In fact, they were setting up for a show to be held this upcoming weekend. Next time we come to New York, Central Park will be more of a priority. At least we were able to get a taste!.
We left Central Park, grabbed a quick bite to eat and arrived at the theater around 7:30pm for our 8pm show. When we walked up to the theater, the entry line wrapped around the corner of the building. We took our place in line and eventually made it into the theater about ten minutes before the start of the show. Our seats were in the last row of the orchestra section. Even though we were in the back, it was definitely preferable to being on the balcony, as we had a very nice view.
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Good morning Coomer family;
Yes, New York is a wonderful place, shame about the guggenheim, the architecture is beautiful, I have a teapot shaped like it. With all the bad you hear about Central Park, it is a thrilling place to visit, did you go to STRAWBERRY FIELDS, CAN;T REMEMBER EXACTLY WHERE IT IS IN THE PARK, New Yorkers, especially in the city, are in a hurry, they do try not to be rude and if you ask a question, directions, they will try and help. Shame you did not get to Mitchells restaurant near Union Square. I am leaving NY today for LV, so will pick up your travels from there. Please post picturs of Shawn Reece and Jasmine. When you head back to LV for the wedding I will be heading back to NY, How long will you be in LV before taking off again.?Safe driving, Hugs to all. Phyllis