The Spain portion of the trip was my job to plan but I left the NYC portion of the trip to Patrice. This morning we started off with a great late breakfast at Un Deux Trois a French restaurant (found by Patrice) where they offered us outdoor seating which we declined (see attached photo). I decided on “Eggs Norwegian” (how could I go wrong with a Norwegian dish at a French restaurant?). It was a fantastic variation of Eggs Benedict (smoked salmon instead of ham).
We next tried to walk off our very rich breakfasts by going downtown by foot to see if we could get tickets to a musical called “Hamilton”. Patrice thought it sounded like something I would like, a musical about Alexander Hamilton. Sounded pretty lame to me but I became very excited when we won a lottery and got two extremely discounted tickets to a sold out production. The show was not only a musical about Alexander Hamilton, the music was all Rap. If I knew that going in I would have taken a pass but the show was incredible. The music was great, the story was informative, funny and touching. The cast was almost all minorities (seeing slave owner Thomas Jefferson being played by a black man was very interesting).
Patrice then had us going to dinner at the Grand Central Station (really Patrice, what are you thinking?). We ate at an incredible place called the Grand Central Station Oyster Bar. Another big winner.
We then pushed our luck one more time and tried for cancelation tickets to Beautiful (a musical based on the life and music of Carole King). This worked out okay if you think Orchestra level, 5th row center is okay. The show was touching and the music was ……. Carole King (need I say more?). At times the story was a bit sentimental. The people behind us got a little annoyed by all the whimpering in front of them. Finally they asked Patrice if she could do something about me.
Today was a complete winner thanks to my great travel partner. Can’t wait for tomorrow.
Robert
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