NYC:Day 2

We woke up to a good morning text from these two cuties. It sounds like they slept good at Nonny's house last night. We got up and rolling about 8:30 this morning.

While I was getting ready Michael went out to get us some breakfast. He came back with a breakfast sandwich for himself and a delicious bacon, egg and cheese croissant for me from the café next doo, Cest Bon Café.

 

Once we finished breakfast we headed out towards the financial district. This was one place we didn't make it to in December that Michael wanted to go so we headed there first this time.

 NYSE

 Michael wanted his picture made with the bull. There was some grumpy old tour guide barking orders at everyone at the head of the bull so he settled for the back end, too bad his eyes were closed!

Next we headed over towards Battery Park to see the Statue of Liberty again. We both agreed that it was much more comfortable weather today, even if it was hot. The last time we were at the Statue of Liberty I was the coldest I have ever been in my entire life!

Lady Liberty!

 After Lady Liberty we headed over to the South Street Sea Port so Michael could see the Brooklyn Bridge.

Our next stop was a place called Shoolbreds. One of my former students, Evan, lives  NYC so we caught up with her at her work for a few hours. We actually ended up staying about two hours and catching up. She is an actress and was telling me all about what she has going on. She'll be on a show on Discovery ID in August, just got done shooting an Adobe Photoshop commercial and will be shooting a Nesquick commercial next week. I'm so proud of her for chasing her dreams!

When we got done visiting with Evan we headed down to Times Square to get our tickets for tonight at the TKTS book and to get some Junior's cheesecake. We tried to get tickets to Lion King or Newsies without any luck so we decided on Cinderella.

 Red Velvet Cheesecake from Junior's

 

After our cheesecake break we headed back to the hotel to get ready for Cinderella! It was Michael's first Broadway play. Unfortunately, I didn't think it was that great. Don't get me wrong, it was good, but not great. They could have only sung the chorus 5 times instead of 10 and it would have still had the same effect. It's also important to realize that this was Roger & Hammerstein's Cinderella, not Disney's Cinderella. It focused a lot more on the "political" aspects of the prince/soon to be new king than the princess aspect.

Michael's $14 drink in a sippy cup!

 After the play we went back to the hotel and enjoy the view from the rooftop. What we didn't realize was that we got back to the hotel about 10:45 and the rooftop bar closed at 11:00 so we went to the hotel restaurant and shared a piece of cheesecake. It was good, but it didn't have anything on the Junior's cheesecake we had earlier today!

We don't have much planned for tomorrow, just Central Park in the morning and maybe a matinee play tomorrow afternoon. I image we'll do lots of wandering!