Wow! The past two days have been unbelievable! Wednesday we woke up in Philadelphia and drove through New Jersey to stay with Leah's cousins in Highland Park, NJ. We got to their house around 11 and sat down with them and planned our afternoon in the city. After that, Dan drove us to the train station and we took the train to NY Penn Station where I was immediately overwhelmed by public transportation. Leah, keeping a cool head as usual, found the subway we wanted to take uptown towards Central Park and the Museum of Natural History.
I've wanted to go to the Museum of Natural History since I saw We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story as a little kid. When we got there, we bought our tickets and saw the science behind the world's largest dinosaurs! It was awesome! After that we took a walk through Central Park toward The Met and we had pretzels. As we got into the Met we stopped at the temple, the choir scrolls, and the armor (everything from one of my favorite books). Then we walked up to see the Guggenheim Museum, but it was already closed by the time we got there.
After that we took a bus back down to Penn Station, sight-seeing for $2.50 out of bus windows. We saw all the big sights to see--The Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the NY Public Library, etc. Then we rode the train back to Metro Park and we had Leah's cousins drop us off at a park so we could see a performance of the musical Hairspray at the outdoor theater there. The performance was great, we had a lot of fun (neither of us had seen it live). We both got a good number of new bug bites, and we got to go to a local NJ play.
Then we came back to the house and fell asleep! (End of Day 15)
The next morning we had breakfast at the house after showers, then we went to the train station and got some Dunkin Donuts coffee and made our way back to New York. From there, we got on the subway and made our way to the Brooklyn Bridge to buy tickets for a Broadway musical. We were hoping to get tickets to see Anything Goes and we were super excited when we got good orchestra seats for half price! After we got our tickets we walked down to the Staten Island Ferry and road it to Staten Island and back to get a view of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. We didn't have time to go to Ellis Island or go to the Statue, so we took the 25 minute ferry ride so we could still get a good view. Then we walked to another bus to get to Greenwich Village, where we had lunch and walked around. After that we went up to the New York Public Library, then walked to Rockefeller Center, then walked to Columbus Circle. By then it was already 6 pm, so we took a subway to Times Square. From there, we were disappointed to see that Times Square wasn't all that exciting, mostly a giant billboard, but we had a good time looking around.
We stopped for a quick bite to eat, then went to the front of the theater to wait for the doors to open so we could see Anything Goes. Leah was incredibly excited (seeing a show on Broadway has always been one of her dreams) so it was really fun to wait for the doors to open as Leah hyperventilated on the sidewalk. When we got in, we found our seats (which were pretty good, the theater was small, so I doubt there were many bad seats). Sutton Foster played Reno amazingly, and the rest of the cast was great. I had a lot of fun seeing the play. By the time that was done, we took the subway to Penn Station and a train back to New Brunswick, so we made it back to the house around 1:30, then went to sleep.
So far today (Day 17) we've showered, and eaten, and now we are working on figuring out the rest of our trip! We've got about a week left, it's coming to a close fast!
<3 Al
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