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elizalavelleMy last day in NYC.
Tuesday was my last day in NYC :( Always a sad thing but I kept myself so busy that I didn’t really have time to be sad. I brought my luggage in with me and left it at Ava’s office. I was so glad to be able to do that because it made planning my day SO much easier rather than leaving time to get back to Brooklyn to pick it up and then getting back to Manhattan for my show that night. I went over to the bus station to find out about where my bus was leaving from (the same gate as always so that was easy) and when it left. I had time for a nice leisurely breakfast so I went to the Cranberry Café and enjoyed a french toast breakfast :) I did some touristy shopping and bought a I heart NY tote bag then wandered along 45th and picked up my ticket for Curtains. I wandered the Hershey store and M&M’s store and then went to Virgin to buy the Mary Poppins cast recording since it was on for $10 but then I was distracted and picked up a gift for Dell and an awesome bag for myself. I figured it was okay since apparently the day before our dollar hit par with the US dollar. It’s awesome if you’re Canadian ;)
I tried a Coldstone ice cream since we don’t have those in Canada. It was yummy, we should get those stores :)
I met up with Ava and Yvonne for lunch. I was so glad Yvonne could make it out to visit. Last time I was in the city we missed each other and it was looking like we might miss each other again this time but it worked out in the end. Yvonne and I ended up doing some shopping together, wandered through Macy’s and then to Old Navy. The Old Navy in the US is so much better than ours! I bought myself 2 tshirts even though I was supposed to be cut off from shopping lol. The new fall/winter stuff that’s coming out looks really cute!
Then Yvonne and I went our separate ways and I went to the Morgan Literary Museum. They don’t allow photos there at all which was a shame since the Morgan study and library were just amazing. I so want a library like that in my house! Totally not a realistic want but it was just beautiful! They also had some really neat things. Hand written letters. Hand written musical scores from Beethoven and Schubert! It was a nice collection. I was there towards the end of the day and they’d already started closing off sections so I did miss some things but I still enjoyed myself. I also found a little hand crank musical box that plays “If I Only Had A Brain” from The Wizard of Oz which was charming. I totally bought it.
Then I headed back to Ava’s work to pick up my luggage and her boss gave me 2 winter coats! Woo fashion industry! I somehow made them fit into my suitcase, while saying a small prayer that the boarder people didn’t decide to search my bag and we headed up to the theatre. Ava stuck around for a while with me in the lobby which was so great of her since it was hot like woah in there. There was one understudy and some woman freaked out because she’d seen the show before and said it was David Hyde Pierce’s character and didn’t want to see the show if he wasn’t in it etc etc. I didn’t know character names so I couldn’t help her out. Anyways she did a lot of talking, and then tried to justify why she’d return her ticket and kept putting emphasis on how she’d seen the show already… then when she finally went to the box office it turned out she had the character’s name wrong and it wasn’t the one David Hyde Pierce plays. So she freaked out a lot of people for nothing.
I got into the show, checked my bag and the coat check employee advised me that the lobby fills quickly after the show so I should make it back to pick up my bag right after the show, during bows if possible. I lucked out and had no one sitting next to me on one side of my row so I knew I at least wouldn’t have to climb over people to get out of the theatre quickly after the show.
Curtains was a great show. It’s by the same people who created Chicago and Cabaret so there wasn’t much chance that it would be bad. It’s full of very self aware humour and was entertaining to the last note. David Hyde Pierce was really good. I thought he’d just be fun to see but he was really really good. The songs were really catchy. It was a great fun show to end my NYC trip with.
I made it out of the orchestra just as bows finished and was able to get my luggage and get out of the lobby before it filled up and was on my way down to the bus station.
There was already a good sized line for my bus when I arrived so it was good that I had rushed straight from the theatre. By the time they were ready to load up the bus the line was so long they had to put on a second bus but I still somehow managed to end up with a double seat to myself for the whole ride home! Very lucky. I slept a LOT more on the way back to TO than I had on the trip to NYC and we stopped at convenience stores instead of at McDonalds so I was able to eat some snacky foods, many flavours of Cheese-Its :)
Crossing the boarder was easy again. There was a guy ahead of me who seemed to be saying he'd bought a gift for a baby that was $500 worth of baby clothes... but his suitcase was smaller than mine so this wasn't flying so well.. Then he started to say he'd had the amount wrong, it was 6-7 hundred dollars worth of baby clothes. Things were not going to go well for him. I had no problems :)
We got into TO at 10, I decided our transit system is not geared towards anyone with luggage, and thus it was back to reality.
Tuesday was my last day in NYC :( Always a sad thing but I kept myself so busy that I didn’t really have time to be sad. I brought my luggage in with me and left it at Ava’s office. I was so glad to be able to do that because it made planning my day SO much easier rather than leaving time to get back to Brooklyn to pick it up and then getting back to Manhattan for my show that night. I went over to the bus station to find out about where my bus was leaving from (the same gate as always so that was easy) and when it left. I had time for a nice leisurely breakfast so I went to the Cranberry Café and enjoyed a french toast breakfast :) I did some touristy shopping and bought a I heart NY tote bag then wandered along 45th and picked up my ticket for Curtains. I wandered the Hershey store and M&M’s store and then went to Virgin to buy the Mary Poppins cast recording since it was on for $10 but then I was distracted and picked up a gift for Dell and an awesome bag for myself. I figured it was okay since apparently the day before our dollar hit par with the US dollar. It’s awesome if you’re Canadian ;)
I tried a Coldstone ice cream since we don’t have those in Canada. It was yummy, we should get those stores :)
I met up with Ava and Yvonne for lunch. I was so glad Yvonne could make it out to visit. Last time I was in the city we missed each other and it was looking like we might miss each other again this time but it worked out in the end. Yvonne and I ended up doing some shopping together, wandered through Macy’s and then to Old Navy. The Old Navy in the US is so much better than ours! I bought myself 2 tshirts even though I was supposed to be cut off from shopping lol. The new fall/winter stuff that’s coming out looks really cute!
Then Yvonne and I went our separate ways and I went to the Morgan Literary Museum. They don’t allow photos there at all which was a shame since the Morgan study and library were just amazing. I so want a library like that in my house! Totally not a realistic want but it was just beautiful! They also had some really neat things. Hand written letters. Hand written musical scores from Beethoven and Schubert! It was a nice collection. I was there towards the end of the day and they’d already started closing off sections so I did miss some things but I still enjoyed myself. I also found a little hand crank musical box that plays “If I Only Had A Brain” from The Wizard of Oz which was charming. I totally bought it.
Then I headed back to Ava’s work to pick up my luggage and her boss gave me 2 winter coats! Woo fashion industry! I somehow made them fit into my suitcase, while saying a small prayer that the boarder people didn’t decide to search my bag and we headed up to the theatre. Ava stuck around for a while with me in the lobby which was so great of her since it was hot like woah in there. There was one understudy and some woman freaked out because she’d seen the show before and said it was David Hyde Pierce’s character and didn’t want to see the show if he wasn’t in it etc etc. I didn’t know character names so I couldn’t help her out. Anyways she did a lot of talking, and then tried to justify why she’d return her ticket and kept putting emphasis on how she’d seen the show already… then when she finally went to the box office it turned out she had the character’s name wrong and it wasn’t the one David Hyde Pierce plays. So she freaked out a lot of people for nothing.
I got into the show, checked my bag and the coat check employee advised me that the lobby fills quickly after the show so I should make it back to pick up my bag right after the show, during bows if possible. I lucked out and had no one sitting next to me on one side of my row so I knew I at least wouldn’t have to climb over people to get out of the theatre quickly after the show.
Curtains was a great show. It’s by the same people who created Chicago and Cabaret so there wasn’t much chance that it would be bad. It’s full of very self aware humour and was entertaining to the last note. David Hyde Pierce was really good. I thought he’d just be fun to see but he was really really good. The songs were really catchy. It was a great fun show to end my NYC trip with.
I made it out of the orchestra just as bows finished and was able to get my luggage and get out of the lobby before it filled up and was on my way down to the bus station.
There was already a good sized line for my bus when I arrived so it was good that I had rushed straight from the theatre. By the time they were ready to load up the bus the line was so long they had to put on a second bus but I still somehow managed to end up with a double seat to myself for the whole ride home! Very lucky. I slept a LOT more on the way back to TO than I had on the trip to NYC and we stopped at convenience stores instead of at McDonalds so I was able to eat some snacky foods, many flavours of Cheese-Its :)
Crossing the boarder was easy again. There was a guy ahead of me who seemed to be saying he'd bought a gift for a baby that was $500 worth of baby clothes... but his suitcase was smaller than mine so this wasn't flying so well.. Then he started to say he'd had the amount wrong, it was 6-7 hundred dollars worth of baby clothes. Things were not going to go well for him. I had no problems :)
We got into TO at 10, I decided our transit system is not geared towards anyone with luggage, and thus it was back to reality.
