Thursday, May 08, 2003

 
Wednesday night we went to see a broadway show ... after a very brief line at TKTS (a place that sells same day tickets at half price, usually very very long lines, heard about frequent 3 hour waits) we got tix to the the Elton John / Tim Rice version of Aida. For food we went to one of the tourist traps in the vicinity ... in this case TGIF ... we had eaten there often on our cross country trip last year and had fond memories .. and have not had ribs in a while ...

While the place was quite nice, the prices were easily double from what we had experienced on the road ... hey, well, it is freakin' Times Square ... so we settled for one mixed appetizer plate and one rack of ribs .. and boy .. that could have fed 4 full grown people ...




The show itself was pretty good, impressive in some parts .. somehow none of the songs stuck with me ... a bit too rock'n rolly for me .. I prefer musicals with more of a classic musical feel (like Beauty and the Beast e.g.) But I was never bored, the story unfolded beautifully and was wrapped in sugar coated bookends so that the hollywood spoilt american audience still had somewhat of a happy ending ...

After the show we walked to Aquavit to have a last drink with Christian. While I stuck with Gin&Tonic, he made a Creamsickle for Ritsu .. and mix of Vanilla flavoured Vodka, orange juice and cream ... he says it reminds him of an icecream bar he used to love as a kid. We had fun listening to his recent rental car adventures (including the elaborate re-enactment on how he threw the phone against the wall since the rental car agency screwed up his reservation) and general chatting ... We wanted to walk home, but it was raining when we left, so we took a cab.





posted by Peter 2:02 PM