Long Time Coming, pt.1

This post is late, but better late then never I suppose.

On the plane.

Back in July I went on vacation to New York City with my friend Lindsay.  It was a lot of fun and totally worth the money, and enduring the sweltering heat.  We made the mistake of booking our trip for early mid-July in February and no one bothered to tell us that New York would be experienced a record heat wave for the entire week we'd be there.  

Our tiny room.

 We took a red-eye flight out and arrived at JFK around 7am.


We arrived at our hotel around 10am.  By 10am it was around 100°F.  The hotel was very nice and the staff was so pleasant.  The room, however, was tiny. Nice, but tiny.  


Our hotel room also happened to have a wonderful view of the offices across the way-I was impressed with their work ethic.
  

What a lovely view.

Upon our arrival at the hotel, we took a nap and reveled in the sweet, sweet air-conditioning. 

We went out around 2:30 to get in line at TKTS to get discount tickets for an evening show and found that they were still selling matinee tickets.  We jumped on the chance to get tickets to West Side Story.  Why West Side Story?  Well it was right across the street, it was hot and we were desperate for relief, and it started at 3:00.  

A view from the mezzanine.

Our seats were perfect and the show was incredible.  I'm so glad that I got to see it.  Even though the show is over fifty years old, it remains an incredibly vital and relevant piece of art.  

Another hundred people..

Later that night we went back out to check out Times Square.  It was packed!  And it was still hot!  I was intrigued by these red stairs at first but soon lost interest.  

These guys totally knew I was trying to take a picture

The next day we met up with one of my best friends, Girija.  She lives in Boston and was spending the week in New York City with her mom, so we went to lunch.  We ate at a wonderful Swedish restaurant in Columbus Circle. It was great to see Girija because it had been over a year (I think) since I'd seen her.  We met her mom too, and she was, well, one of the coolest persons I've ever met. 

After lunch, Lindsay and I went to the Central Park Zoo.  The zoo is much smaller than our Hogle Zoo here in Utah, but it's a very clean, pleasant, and enjoyable place. 

After the zoo we walked down to the Museum of Modern Art.  There were some really great exhibits, including some of Picasso's earlier works.

Aesthetics is a complicated field of study.

After the museum, we ran over to TKTS and, after a cr-a-zy ordeal with my both credit and debit cards, we got tickets to see Promises, Promises.