We decided we were too hot and so got a cheap flight up NYC - $150! and a cheap hostel and then sublet. Only one night in a 14-women dorm - an experience - when they were overbooked. The Loft Hostel ( a lovely warehouse conversion with high ceilings and white sheets!) was in Brooklyn in a very groovy part. We enjoyed exploring the area for a while. Now we are in mid-town Manhattan in a studio sublet which is gorgeous. We have well and truly mastered the subway and have done lots of exploring of Brooklyn and Queens. We have been eating and drinking ourselves silly after the deprivations of Mexico - all that good weight loss is being undone too!
We went to an opera, Tosca, last Monday - tried for rush tickets but missed out so got standing room ones. The legs gave out after act two but we got to see Tosca's kiss - a stabbing. It was going to be all downhill in Act III - both hero and heroine die, so going home won. We also went to hear James Elroy read (wrote LA confidential among other things). He talks like he writes - scary! Loved it.
Yesterday we decided to go to a "Lavish, Broadway Musical" and managed to get half price tickets to Mama Mia in the seventh row from the front! Our choice was based in part on what was available but we were VERY happy with it. It was just so over the top lavish fun - and of course we know all the words! Ange has been singing all the songs ever since!
On Friday afternoon we went to Moma (Museum of Modern Art) filled with amazingly famous paintings (saw Van Gogh's - Starry Nights) all for free (Friday afternoons free). After that we went to West Village to hear some jazz at a bar - certainly was a different experience especially when a man off his face on drugs came and sat at our table!!! Several men around the bar got up and surrounded him but the barmaid talked him into leaving - I hardly heard the music during that time.
The bar was next to the Stonewall Inn (a gay mecca) and oddly Ange had a Chris try to pick her up as she was taking a photo - and Chris was a man - optimistic? Fiction and reality mingle.
Off to walk in Central Park in the cool sun!
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