Omar wanted to go and see Cirque de Soleil - we went all the way to Madison Square Gardens to get tickets to find out that Cirque only happens for a few weeks in December. We totally did not see that on the website.
We then went to find Broadway tickets. I heard that there are some spots for 1/2 price tickets - we walked and searched to no avail. We ended up buying our tickets at the box office an hour before a show started. We went and saw "In the Heights" it was the 2008 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical. Omar loved it! It is a mix of Spanish and Modern dancing and music. The show is about Washington Heights New York and the Spanish people there and the changes they are going through in their life. So much of what was talked about was what I imagine NY & Hispanic life to be. My friend Erin Pratt recommended it to me. We had a great time and had awesome seats. I have never sat so close to the stage or orchestra before.
The blonde head poking up in the middle of the picture is the director of the orchestra. He also played the piano - it was amazing. We were on the 4th row.
The scenery was in the background - we had a few others taken that would have been better, but the guy kept moving the camera so they are blurry
This is the scenery for the show
Us after the show
It was the 2008 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical
After the show we ended up getting tickets to go to this Comedy Club later that night. Omar wanted to be sure that we did not get ripped off from the tickets so we walked to find where the comedy club was located. Dangerfields is the world's oldest comedy club. We walked over 8 blocks to get there just to find out it existed - Times Square all the way to 1st street! That is a LONG ways.
To kill time we went over to China Town for some Chinese food. We found this one place - it was INCREDIBLE!!! I got a Thai Seafood Casserole. Boy was it hot/spicy, but it was incredibly delicious. Omar had been talking about buying a fake rolex for a while and that China Town has the best ones, the most "real" fake rolexes (folexes). The guy wanted $90, I got it down to $30. I was proud of myself. We also went to this Chinese bakery and got these yummy breads and things.
This is what most of the shops in China Town look like
Gotta love the chinese deserts and breads
Where all the people are the street is blocked off and lined with restaraunts - it moves from China Town to Little Italy.
Omar at the bridge
Nice view of Manhattan - most of our pictures did not turn out well due to the darkness
this is the bridge in Central Park that is in a lot of movies
the comedy club stage
We still had time left before the comedy show and so we went to Central Park. It was dark, but still very nice. If we wouldn't have been so tired, we maybe would have walked around more. We both were exhausted and we should have just gone to the hotel and lost out on our comedy show tickets. We went and it was so raunchy. I guess I learned the hard way, why I really do not go to comedy shows. We could not even really leave because you are required to buy 2 drinks per person. For our 4 drinks which we got 4 sodas and paid $28!!! Yup - I won't be doing that again in my life. We got out at midnight and were trashed for the day. The problem was that a lot of the subways were closed for the night and no one could give us directions of which ones. So we would walk from one stop to the next and then take a bus to try to find a subway that would work. When we finally found one it only came every 30 minutes. It took us 3 hours to get back to our hotel. It was crazy!!!
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