We’ve had an interesting first few days in NYC. We arrived on Thursday, met up with Claire that evening for dinner near Times Square and traipsed around the area, visiting Bryant Park and the M&M World and Fifth Avenue and the Empire State building and Toys R Us… It was an appropriately busy introduction to New York.
Next day took us back to Times Square for a spot of shopping, a two hour long wait in the queue for Broadway tickets, and a viewing of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Daniel Radcliffe starred. Pity we didn’t come a few months later, or we’d have seen Darren Criss – aka ‘the more awesome Harry Potter’ – in the lead instead. Turns out DanRad can sing and dance fairly well indeed. It was a very fun show, definitely an enjoyable night out.
Day three consisted largely of strolling through Central Park. The weather was gorgeous – the quiet before the storm, if you will – and conditions were perfect for a piece of aimless wandering through the park. We were audience to some incredible street dancing in a show performed by a bunch of guys in wigs called ‘The Afrobats’ or something similar. They were highly exploitative, and their humour walked a thin line between racist and hilarious, but it was great fun nonetheless.
Claire and I then left the others to see Hair, both of us preferring to save money. Also, Claire let me use her gorgeous hotel shower, so it was really a very luxurious night for me. We had a good time just chillaxing and chatting and watching all the sensationalist Hurricane Irene predictions on Fox News. As Claire was leaving NYC the next morning, it was a really great chance to catch up before the final leg of her US trip.
So, a pretty standard New York trip, right? More on that later (if the munchkins let me leave Oz.)
By the way, if anyone's interested in Lucy's point of view of all this, check out http://lucyfyffe.blogspot.com/
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