I took this from the window next to lifts on our hotel room floor (unfortunately our room looked out onto the other side and nowhere near a view like this!)
We started with breakfast near the hotel – I’ve given up on cappuccinos so have opted for regular (filtered) coffee. Loving the free refills!
We passed a couple of school buses on the way, I love the old school style buses…
We decided to then head to Central Park for a wander – we had only seen it in dreary weather and snow. All of the guys with bicycle and carriages (i.e. a bike with a carriage for 2 or 4 people on the back) were out in force, there were so many of them trying to sell rides through Central Park to people passing by.
We would have loved to have seen the park with some trees in bloom, but at least it was a sunny day when we went – I’ve included some pics below. The ice skating rink was in full swing, again, I couldn’t quite persuade Troy to go skating, however, it was very cold so getting wet and even colder didn’t really appeal. We saw a couple of impressive stacks from skaters, so that kept us entertained for a little while! (So much easier to comment from the sidelines!)
Squirrels seem to be everywhere!
And just because I haven't posted enough selfie photos (in case anyone has forgotten what we look like)...
Then it was shopping time! We still can’t get over how good the shopping is (and we haven’t even got to the outlets in Las Vegas yet!) We went to a couple of department stores and then ended up at a discount Levi’s store across the road from our hotel. Kudos to my ever patient husband who stood there for about an hour while I had a couple of salespeople fuss over me giving me many different styles of jeans to try on. It was actually excellent service and it worked because I ended up with a couple of pairs.
We thought we might see a play or musical on our last night in New York – for those that don’t know, there is a last minute ticket booth called “tkts” located in the heart of Times Square. They open at 3pm every day and sell last minute tickets to Broadway and Off Broadway shows for that night. It’s a series of ticket booths lined up (my attempt at a pic is below).
We had seen the play ‘Cat on a hot tin roof’ starring Scarlett Johansson advertised before we left Australia so thought we’d try our luck at getting tickets. The tkts outlet only had one option for tickets, so we ended up going to the theatre and they had more ticket options. So we purchased them from there in the end.
Now there was one last thing I wanted to do and that was try a cupcake from Magnolia Bakery (the bakery which is in the Sex and the City TV show). Due to time, we didn’t think we’d have time to go to the original bakery in Greenwich Village, so I had seen one near Times Square that I thought I was leading Troy towards. Turns out, I navigated us to Grand Central station – now it’s a lovely old station but the food court in the basement isn’t. That’s where Magnolia Bakery ended up being. Not the romantic Sex and the City moment I was after! But we still tried a cupcake (pic below). Sorry to anyone that loves Magnolia, we weren’t very impressed in the end.
We headed back to the hotel for a little while to freshen up, had a quick, casual dinner and then it was show time. Our tickets ended up being three rows from the front – I took this sneaky photo before the play started…
They were fantastic seats! The play was fabulous, nearly three hours long. It was a very intense story with complex characters. Scarlett Johansson was excellent (and beautiful in person). It was very much an ensemble effort though and all of the actors were amazing. Troy really enjoyed it too (I may get him to a couple of plays in Melbourne now). A great way to spend our last night in New York.
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