This although would be a trip we would not soon forget. Having been on so many flights Darren thought that he had it down to a science, and decided it was not necessary for us to leave our usual 1 1/2 hrs. before our flight. He said 1 hr. would be ample........well, needless to say, he was off by 1 minute, resulting in us missing our flight. We were able to get on a flight 4 hrs. later, by luck but had a layover in Washington D.C. for another 2 hrs. Finally arriving in N.Y.C. at 9:00 that night.
Exhausted and spent we took a 1 hr. cab ride to our hotel the New Yorker, only to find out we did not have a reservation! Deciding I would come at such late notice Darren forgot to book the hotel the one extra day we wanted for sightseeing! We spent a good while at the reception desk to see if they could fit us in, or find us a room in their sister hotels. With no such luck! They eventually sent us on our merry way with a list of 125 nearby hotels we could try to call on our own. Did not know we were there on such an important weekend! Every decent hotel was booked, now was not the time to be picky...we gambled and found a little diamond in the rough about 2 mi. away. The next day we woke early dropped off our bags at the New Yorker where we would be the remainder of our stay and went and rode bikes through Central Park!
After doing the 6 mi. loop, we went around again and stopped to see all the sights. The Central Park Zoo, the Guggenheim Museum was closed (dang!) and spent the rest of the day at the Metropolitan Museum. It was the BEST day ever! Alexander McQueen was there, sooo cool!That night we went and saw "Rock of Ages" a musical with all the hair band songs. Poison, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Foreigner 4, Journey...the play was silly, but the songs were great!
After our fun day, we headed back to our 4 star hotel and crashed.....and woke up the next morning to this on my pillow:
BED BUGS!!
Darren had his seminar that morning, and my day was busy switching rooms, and packing back up. It was the hottest day recorded in New York history at 108 up to 115 with the humidity. So, I was not ready to venture out on my own anyway.
We had tickets to a Yankee's game that night, and after many warnings by the media, and hearing about others changing their plans......we decided to go anyway. We hopped on to the
F-train for the 45 minute ride to Yankee stadium.
Not the picture you want to see for a 45 minute Subway ride, on the hottest day of the year.
Yankee's beat the Oakland A's 13-9.
The one last thing I wanted to do on this trip was to see the Book of Mormon Musical. I figured it was one that would never come to Utah, thought we might never be out here again, and I wanted to see what the world was learning about us through this musical. We looked for tickets and they were saying they were SOLD OUT until October. There was 2 ways to get tickets....either through a lottery, or go 2 hrs before the show and attempt to get "standing room only." Darren said "when there's a will, there's other ways" so he got onto Stub Hub and found two somewhat reasonable priced tickets. Darren had his seminar again that day, so I spent the day shopping. The play started at 8:00, and we couldn't pick the tickets up until 6:00pm. We arrived just in time to pick the tickets up, and......they couldn't find them.....they didn't have record of them. After much searching they finally handed over to us 2 tickets. Relieved we headed to dinner, and rushed to the play. We stood in line for about 20 minutes. got up to the door and what do you know? Our tickets wouldn't scan! Looking closer....our tickets were for the 2:00pm show, and not the 8:00pm. Are you kidding me?
Devastated, I didn't want to leave. Darren tried to go and smooth talk the box office, the back stage hands, the ushers....it wasn't working. It usually does, but not this time. Not even room enough for two more bodies in "standing room only" The doors were about to close and we see this gentleman talking with about 3 other people, that one of the ushers had pointed out to me. He was a concierge. And he was selling the last two tickets. The other 3 people talking with him he said, he felt were dishonest. So he said he would sell the tickets to us. They were the owner of the playhouse's tickets. The people he had given the tickets to could not make it, and so it was his job to get them sold! He needed cash, and we did not have enough on hand, the show was about to start and he said, "just go....we'll square up after the show." I couldn't believe it.
So with seconds to spare, we head in the doors to the 3RD ROW AISLE SEATS. 3 seats away from Kathryn Heigl, her husband and her mom. and 3 ROWS ahead of the villain in the Spy Kid's Movies. (Cannot remember his name.) Crazy, amazing. We were able to see the show, a little bit of stress, and a pretty penny later. I am glad I saw it. It had more moments of greatness, than moments of absolute disgust. For me, I had to see what others are learning about us, and have to say there were some times I was pleasantly surprised, and a couple thoroughly offended. And feel anyone with a belief in a God. Would have been offended at those times as well. I can't say I would recommend it, and would NOT see it again, but am glad that I did.
We headed out the next day feeling complete. It was in the end a successful trip. Feeling like we had done enough to not feel the need to ever come again. But why wouldn't we? New York is great....BOTH times I have been able to come.
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