A Place, Where Nobody Dared To Go

[eggwards]

I'm having a blast here in New York City. There's still so much to see, and I think I'm getting to the point where I'll need to take things off the list to see. This is why Chris didn't want to come, he knows I get obsessed about running all over town seeing everything I can. My legs are getting a great workout, though. My legs are sore every night from walking.

I have only to go to Brooklyn today to have visited all five boroughs.

My sister, Laura joined me yesterday, and we saw the Mets game, and walked over to the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows park. The Unisphere is the huge steel globe that was the center piece for the 1964 world's fair. I know many people would know if from the movie Men in Black, but I know it's the cover of the B-52's greatest hits album.

We saw Xanadu on Broadway last night. Man it was great. I laughed the entire time, and they even acknowledge in the show that their target audience is gay men in their 40's. It was a perfect send up of everything that didn't make sense in the movie, and still uses the movie music you are familiar with. I thought it was fun that two of the muses are guys, but yet still "sisters". They are the two best dancers, too. There was a cute cubbie usher who gave us our glowsticks for the finale.

After having a great Italian meal, we tied to see if we could make a late trip to the Top of the Rock, the observation deck on 30 Rock. We were a little late, but we were wondering why there was a crowd of screaming girls out at midnight in Rockefeller center. We asked an NBC hand who was helping set up for the Friday morning concert for the Today show and he said the girls were waiting for Miley Cyrus (aka Hanna Montana). He said some of them were camped out from the night before. He also said they were closing more streets than they had for any other artist. We were happy to get out of the area.

I find that I can't quite walk as fast as most of the locals, but I can outpace the tourists, and they annoy me! If you want to gawk at the sights, move over and let us get through! I find I'm already getting to be a local!

Comments

[bigboychb.livejournal.com]

Hey, what're you doing here?!

[scotbear.livejournal.com]

I saw that some have been camping out for Miley Cyrus since Tuesday!!

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

I'm sure. There were lots of little girls all around town yesterday after having been to the show. I really don't understand parents who camp out with their kids for this stuff, though. I know it's summer, but really, camping out in a big city?

[biggaloot.livejournal.com]

Where in Brooklyn do you think you will go? It's it's own entire city. ;-)

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

We'll probably just take a train over there, step around a square or something, then go back, just to say I was there!

[closeted2.livejournal.com]

There is alot to see in Brooklyn. You should go to Coney Island, and walk on the boardwalk, see the amusement parks and the aquarium. Brooklyn is da garden spot of de woild.

[biggaloot.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest Coney Island, not just for CI, but because the adjacent neighborhoods have some fantastic places to go have lunch. And the italian eye candy there (ie, Bensonhurst) is still pretty much worth the trip...

[closeted2.livejournal.com]

That is a walk on the boardwalk is for, to see the eye candy

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

I'd love to go out to Coney island to see it, but it will probably have to be for another trip, for another time. I'm already to the point of where I'm not going to be able to get everything in, and just ask my partner, he'll tell you that I really do try to get everything in, sometimes to the point of exhaustion.

My legs and feet are killing me right now (probably because I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday), but I still have stuff to see!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a terrific time!

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

It's going great. I wish I had the time and money to see other Broadway Shows, but I got to see the one I really wanted to see, and just 4 rows from the stage! The Helen Hayes is a nice, small theater.

The show is short, 90 minutes, but come on, it's Xanadu, how long does it need to be? There's a joke near the end where a muse said "come on, were are almost to the end and next door Mama Rose hasn't even alienated her first daughter!"

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

The male lead in "Xanadu", Cheyenne, is an acquaintance of mine from Seattle.