Well I’ve not written for a couple of days again ‘cos first there wasn’t much to write about, and then when there was something to write about, there was no time to do so.
On Thursday we had a very quiet day. John had a bit of excitement when we saw the Carnival Legend. Him and big boats! Honestly it’s almost as bad as Maria and anything colourful.
He went off to work and Maria and I stayed at home and worked. Another bear joins the fold.
Then yesterday, we decided we wanted to go to see a Broadway show. So Maria and I went to South St. Seaport where there is a TKTS office which sells tickets for shows that evening for about half price. There is another one at Times Square. It involves a fair bit of queuing and it’s a matter of luck what you can get but it is excellent value. When we joined the queue we couldn’t decide if we wanted Fiddler on the Roof or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. By the time we got to the front the decision was made for us, they’d sold out of Fiddler. Still we didn’t mind. Mind you it would have been nice if the weather was a bit nicer, we were frozen, what with standing around and the wind blowing in off the water.
The show was at the Hilton Theatre on 42nd St. I was all prepared for a not too well appointed theatre. The couple of times Maria and John have been to Broadway, they say the theatres had no lobbies or foyers to speak of, you were almost straight into the auditorium from the street. However this was different, it was a lovely old theatre with grand staircases and bars and restrooms on each level.
The show itself was great!!! As for Chitty flying.. WOW!!!! Thoroughly enjoyed it, together with everyone else in the audience.
I rather like my Chitty badge.We’re going to see if we can get tickets for something else when Claire comes out to join us at the end of next week.
A rather amusing sight was the rickshaws (?!?!) waiting outside the theatre entrances at the end.
It was very late by the time we got back home and I was shattered.
Today has been a quieter day. Despite half the subways downtown being closed (again! every weekend!!) we managed to get up to Grand Central. We really like the food market there.
Then Maria finished another bear. Rather an eccentric and funny chap.
