Everything is copacetic here at The Belvedere Hotel. It is Saturday, July 11th at 11:48 p.m., i.e., just before midnight. Ross and I are just back to the room from the Broadway Show "On The Town" a singin' and dancin' musical based on an old movie with Gene Kelly about three sailors in NYC for a 24 hour leave. Great dancing. Great singing. I didn't think it was as good as the show last night but still, it was very good.
I sort of woke up early this morning as Little Lee texted me about 4 or 5 a.m. and then I sent texts to Ty and Nat, but amazingly I fell back asleep later and didn't wake up until about 9 a.m., which is weird.
We got ready and all cleaned up and decided we would go way up to Tom's Deli up on 110th street or so. This is the diner that Seinfeld used the outside of as their deli supposedly called "Monk's Deli".
We had a beautiful bus ride up there and then a beautiful breakfast as well.
I had Corned Beef Hash with Scrambled eggs.
Ross posing outside of Tom's Deli.
Ross had Mushrooms stuffed with Crab. Yummy.
I only add this photo of my Corned Beef Hash, with Home Fries because Ty keeps begging me for more "Food Photos" so there you are Ty. Also the Apple Pie a la mode for Ross and the Cherry Pie a la mode for me is another example. Have to do it for Ty.
Yummy!
After Tom's Deli, we decided to walk down to Central Park, which extends from 110th Street downtown to 59th Street. A huge park. Also about 20 city blocks wide as well. I couldn't handle walking the full length of the park so we grabbed a bus down halfway or so, got off around 84th street and started walking through the middle of the park West to East on one of the streets that run through the park.
We stopped and checked out the Reservoir lake:
This has a one-way running track traveling in an anti-clockwise direction all around it. Both sides of Central Park have beautiful and exotic apartment buildings, some famous people live here; much too many to list.
Some of the apartment buildings around the Central Park, these are on the West of the park.
We walked through the park and finally came out on the East side in what they call the Museum Mile. We walked up to the Guggenheim Museum on 88th Street and looked around it and then through the front foyer and the Shop; bought some gifts and trinkets for the Indians at home.
The Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank LLoyd Wright. The very round tower is made up of a huge spiral ramp that allows visitors to climb up the levels and view lots of art on the outside, exiting to specific levels and rooms of collections when desired.
After the Guggenheim, we walked down to The NY Metropolitan Museum on 80th Street, passing lots of sidewalk street vendors, both of food and drink but also touristy art related photos or paintings and reproductions of famous paintings. Ross and I got drinks and shared a famous huge soft pretzel, very sweet and very salty, pretty irresistible.
The "Met"
We visited inside briefly and again, purchased some small gifts in the Museum Shop.
Then we hopped a bus all the way down to 32nd Street on Fifth Ave to visit Macy's to check out the sales and see if we could find some pearls for Little Lee.
We also wanted to watch out for real prices of stuff we would see at the Factory Outlet Stores in Kittery and Freeport (Home of L.L.Bean).
Another box ticked. Purchased designer pearls from two lovely ladies in the Fine Art And Jewelry Section. They were very helpful. You get 15% off for being an overseas tourist, which at least covers New York's 9% sales tax and a bit more.
Then Ross was going to head across the Williamsburg Bridge to go to a famous Design Store, but we ran out of time, it was 4:30p.m. by then and we wanted to buy tickets in Times Square for another Show. Then grab dinner and go out to the show.
So we walked up 7th Ave through to and beyond the frantic and tourist and local filled streets of Times Square. It's like a zoo through there, and on the weekend they set of sidewalk shops and BBQ areas; wow!
This is a huge screen on the side of one of the buildings in Times Square when a street view of the people looking up at this screen are projected. You should be able to pick out Ross about 3/4 way up and slightly right of centre, in a vertical striped shirt.
I am in a whits with green Currumbin Surf Life Saving Polo Shirt and holding the camera up, of course. Good luck.
Ross about to pass through a group of Super Heroes that accost you to take photos with them and then, of course, ask you for "donations" for the photos.
We eventually got up to the half-price Tickets Station and lined up to get either "Out On The Town" or , failing that, " The Book Of Mormon". After quite a short wait we got tickets for Out On The Town and we headed back to the hotel around 6:15.
Ross grabbed a Spinach Pie at a Greek sidewalk vendor, and he had fruit and a drink so that was to be his dinner, and he was going to put his feet up for an hour before the show.
I decided to go out to the Patzeria Italian Restaurant pretty much right beside our hotel. It was fully booked and packed out but I was able to get a seat at the bar, where you can eat, drink and be right in front of the big Screen TV, where they were showing a baseball game. Perfect.
After a lovely meal I wandered back to the room, collected Ross and we walked down to 42nd Street, where the Lyric Threater was for the big show. It was delightful; we had a great time, then back to bed as per the start of this Blog.
Bye for now,
Ross and Lance
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