It was Lindsay, Valerie, Debbie and I off on this great adventure to see the Rent and the Big Apple in general.
06/19/97 Thursday
Our taxi ride from the airport to the hotel gave us quite a tour of Manhattan already. Streets filled with all sorts of people. The streets and the people seemed to go on forever. All this for only $22. Plus tip. Plus $3.50 for bridge fare.
After checking in, we began walking. And walking .... Stopped at the Empire State Building to go to the top. The girls wanted some of the other rides too, but we didn’t have enough cash. Waited in line for an hour or so. Good view from the top, though.
We ate at Caesar’s in Murray Hill. Good Italian food made by mama herself.
After walking back, we crashed at the hotel. The Marriott Marquis is right on Broadway at Times Square. In the thick of it all.
06/20/97 Friday
More walking. After stopping for a muffin, we walked to catch our Gray Line double decked bus tour. It was fun and cool riding up on top and seeing the whole city from that viewpoint. We got good narration along the way, too, from an actual New Yorker.
We got off the bus at Battery Park to get on the ferry to see the Statue of Liberty. More waiting. This time it was fun because there were street entertainers to watch. When we got there, there was a long wait to get into the statue and a longer one to climb to the top. So instead we just walked around the island. That was fun by itself. More waiting, of course, to get back.
The Gray Line tour would allow us to get on and off anywhere anytime. So we got on again to continue around the city. This time it was very hot. Valerie started getting a sunburn, so we moved downstairs. It was like an oven in there. And the narration was not as good this time either.
Crashed at the hotel.
Rent was a great show. All four of us really enjoyed it. Most of the original actors were there and the singing was fantastic. I’m still not sure that I understood all the details of the story. But as Debbie says, that’s opera.
Times Square was all lit up. Really a sight at 11 pm.
06/21/97 Saturday
For my morning run, I ran around and through Central Park. I found out that you’re not supposed to run against the grain (arrows) on some of the roads. They close the roads to auto traffic, but there are thousands of runners, walkers, bikers and bladers. All going the opposite way of me, until I wizened up. I was also able to scope out the Metropolitan Museum of Art, so that we could walk there later.
When we did walk there (“there” was about two miles from our hotel) later in the morning, it was already getting hot. The museum was cool, though. After going through the Egyptian and Medieval Exhibits, Debbie and I were really enjoying the European paintings, especially the impressionist ones, when the girls began getting bored. We really needed more time in there, but had to go.
Stopped at the Hard Rock Cafe for a late lunch. Not as bad as I thought. Lindsay bought her dad an expensive bomber jacket from the HRC store. Still more stops and shopping on the way back.
Crashed at the hotel.
Debbie and I went out to a Brazilian restaurant (Via Brasil) for our anniversary. Thought we’d try something different. Lots of beans, a cream of rice, okra with chicken, sausages with yucca. Brazilian entertainment. Different, all right. And it was really quite good.
The girls got room service and a n in-room movie while we were out. They really had a fancy spread when we got in.
Later on we all went out to Times Square to take pictures. Quite a sight, once again.
And quite a trip. NYC is like a whole different planet. Loads of fun.
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