Well I just ended day #3 in the big apple! Today was a quiet day, but still filled with lots to see. We didn't get up and out of the hotel until about 10:30am, so we of course had to start out with breakfast at the deli across the street, and then we headed down to buy tickets for a show tonight. We started out trying to get tickets to The Addams Family. Well they only had 2 tickets left for tonight's performance which was wonderful...but they were $300+ each...not so wonderful! So we of course immediately decided that we did not need to see that show and headed over to the St. James Theatre to get tickets for tonight's performance of American Idiot.
After getting show tickets we headed down to Chelsea to the Ground Zero Museum Workshop. All I can say is amazing! The museum is a collection of pictures from the official photographer of Ground Zero, Gary Marlon Suson. The museum itself was not much bigger than 1100 square feet, but had hundreds of photographs and artifacts from September 11th. There is a self guided tour where you can go from picture to picture (or artifact) enter the number and get the story of that piece as narrated by Mr. Suson himself. It was a very emotional tour, but one that I would definitely suggest to anyone who goes to visit NYC or anyone who currently lives there.
After the museum we headed back to the hotel for a little rest time. We then headed out to dinner at a very nice Italian restaurant (wish I could remember the name of it!). After dinner there was about an hour before the show started, so we decided to got sit in Times Square for a while. I really think I could sit in Times Square for several hours at a time. Such a great place to people watch!
Then we were off to see American Idiot. I thought it was a fabulous show! Of course I loved the music of Green Day, but thought it had a great storyline as well. The cast was extremely energetic and has to be so incredibly tired after running and jumping around that stage for an little over an hour and a half. I really think this show can really bring out a whole new following to Broadway.
On our way back to the hotel, we had to stop and get some dessert, so we stopped at Crumbs. Can we say yummy?! Highly recommend these tasty treats if you're ever here. We hit the one at 8th & 53rd.
Well I think I'm going to try to catch up on some sleep. Thanks for checking in, and make sure to check in again tomorrow night!
