Yes, it’s Thursday and I’m just now catching up from the weekend!
I went with a group of friends into New York City to celebrate two of their birthdays. We’re all friends from the chorale, thus a musical trip was in order!
We took the train in Friday night and were greeted with an amazing view from the hotel.
Then we met up with the rest of the gals, who had arrived earlier in the day. We enjoyed a great dinner at an Italian restaurant. I can’t remember the name, but it looked like this above my seat:
After a champagne toast back at the hotel, we called it a night. Well, we might have been toasting for a little while. It had gotten pretty late at that point!
We had to get moving kind of early on Saturday. We were going to the opera!
Part of our group bought tickets, but four of us opted for the $20 standing room only tickets. They went on sale at 10 a.m., so we went to the opera house after breakfast.
Yes, we had to stand for three hours, but we had an unobstructed view, it sounded great, and we saved $200!
I couldn’t take pictures in the opera house, but did sneak a couple of the light fixtures.
In the store:
And near our assigned standing place:
We had another great dinner after the show, followed by drinks at the hotel bar. And birthday cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery. Yum!
We started Sunday off with a delicious brunch.
And then wandered around the city until it was time to see Wicked!
What an amazing show. I highly recommend it!
We took a late train home so we had time for dinner after the matinee. We got to the restaurant just in time for the Super Bowl. None of us cared all that much, but I got to watch as I won the first quarter in my office pool!
For dessert, I got a Dark and Stormy float. If you didn’t know, a Dark and Stormy is rum and ginger beer. And delicious. They added rum raisin ice cream to make the float. Yum!
Then we grabbed our bags from the hotel, hopped in a cab, and headed to the train station.
Nice visiting you, NY!
