NEW YORK part 1

Two weeks ago, several of my friends from Washington Seminar and I took a trip to new york.  Our friend Becca is from Scarsdale, so she offered to let people stay there.  In the end i think there were fifteen of us that ended up staying there, and they had beds, airmattresses, and couches for everyone.  It was a really fun trip.  We took the bus on thursday night and arrived in New York around midnight.  We basically just tried to find our way to beccas house, and ended up getting in a little after 2am.

Some of us took our time the next morning, because we knew if we tried to wake up early we would be dead tired by lunch time, and the the whole day would be ruined.  So we slept in late, which was very nice.  There was a group that went on a seven o clock ferry to staten island and the statue of liberty, and I think those people had a very rough day after that.  

So we woke up late and immediately began looking for broadway tickets.  We started at mary poppins because we knew that were pretty reliable for supplying student tickets.  We ended up being able to get tickets for 31 dollars each (regular is like over $100) for ten of us to go.  After that we went to lunch at bubba gumps which was delicious.  Our waiter gave us some forrest gump trivia, which was fun because forrest gump is one of my favorite movies, and I knew it pretty well.  Far better than he did, in fact. I had the new orleans gumbo AND the shrimp/lobster bisque, which was DEEEElicious. 

After that we walked around times square, went to rockefeller center and 30 rock, the NBC store, and a few other places around there. 

before this trip, I discovered something incredible.  Restaurant.com is a website where you can look up information about restaurants, and buy coupons for them.  One day they had a seventy percent off sale on coupons, so I bought a few.  3 dollars for a 25/off coupon.  I was very proud of myself for that, and they came in handy in new york.  We went to a cool little restaurant in the crowne plaza on time square and had pre-show drinks and appetizers.  There were about ten of us, so there was a lot of food, and it turned out to be like 5 dollars a person.  Thanks restaurant.com.

Mary Poppins was a great show.  I didn't love the movie very much growing up because a lot of it seemed kind of strange. (laughing on the cieiling? weird animated animals? the people on the roof that thought they were on a ship or something?) the show was great though.  It was fun, the music was great, the cast was great, and there were a few really cool things.  mary flew like three different times holding on to her umbrella, once over the entire audience.  Burt tap danced on the ceiling, which was crazy, there were magical things throughout the show.  I definitely understood the story and the message much better than I ever had before.  It was great, everyone seemed to enjoy it, and it was a great ending to the day.  We ended up getting home a little bit before twelve and tried to get to bed early.