Broadway Night

It's been a little while since I've blogged but I need to finish chronicling my trip to NY. Some of the details are getting a bit hazy already since it was over two weeks ago but I'll try my best to get things going.

First off my wife and I decided to do a bit more exploring in Central Park and take things a little easier for the day. Even though we did do a lot of Central Park a couple of days ago, we decided to go back and see what else we missed. I personally wanted to go to the Central Park Zoo simply because I've never been there before. Of course I had to see things like penguins and birds and all manner of critters. I thought it was a good experience. In all the years that I've lived in the North East I don't think I've ever really been to Central Park itself. In true New York fashion the wife and I had to have a pretzel in the park and naturally I took some pics.

This one is of the gate to the Central Park Zoo, I thought this was appropriate to take a pic of it while I had the chance.

Now the rest of the day was pretty relaxing since we didn't do anything to make us too tired, we had a Broadway show to attend! But naturally, I remember events based on meals so we had to make the night extra special by heading over to one of Bobby Flay's restaurants before we could go and see Spring Awakening.

Bar Americain was an excellent place for us to eat our dinner out. Originally we were going to try and hit up the Mesa Grill but it was way too far downtown near the Flat Iron district and would have required two subway trips. By no means do I think the choice we made was a mistake. I dont' even remember what my entre was personally but I do know that the dessert was so good that my wife cant' even remember what she had for dinner. Too bad I probably should have taken a picture of it.

OK now on to the show! I haven't been to Broadway since I think the 1980's (I know I'm old right?). I won't give away the plot or anything but the show was really good. The theater wasn't as big as I thought it would be and for some really weird reason there were tons of little high schoolers going to the show. This didn't really annoy me that much and we had decent seats to watch. The good thing was that no one tall was in front of us. I still have the PlayBills at home but haven't really looked at them since the show. I would recommend anyone going to see a Broadway show to check this one out. I wouldn't mind going to see Avenue Q, I hear that show is also good if a little on the crude side, but being me I know I would enjoy that.

After the show we were just wiped out so we ended up heading home afterwards. I did take one more picture that night that was pretty cool and it was of Times Square. I could have stayed at a hotel there instead of at the Waldorf but it's way too loud there so I'm pleased with my choice.