NYC Trip

This past weekend we traveled to New York City for a pre-Christmas visit with Becky's siblings and spouses. It was a fun trip - my first to New York. I can confirm that the Big Apple is a very exciting place. Becky's sister Cindy, and her husband, Tim have a small apartment in Manhattan, just three blocks from the west side of Central Park. Becky's brother, Gene and his wife, Shannon stayed with Cindy and Tim, and with the four of them in the one bedroom, one bath apartment, there was a crowd.

I was very happy to stay in the W Hotel - Times Sq, at 47th and Broadway, in the heart of the action. The W is about two subway stops from Cindy and Tim's place so it was quite convenient.

We took in a couple of Broadway shows: the first was at Radio City Music Hall - "The Rockettes Christmas Spectacular". Tremendously great show, but I wish that we had some children with us. The second show "Rent" was really disappointing. It's as if the writer wanted to assail us with every distasteful possible human behavior in the PC interest of diversity, and still try to remain sympathetic and cute. I walked out in the last ten minutes of the show, preferring the empty lobby to the assult on my sensibilities. The only reason I stayed that long was the music.

We also did lots of sightseeing: Wall Street, Ground Zero, Central Park, the Metropolitan Art Museum, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Little Italy, Chinatown, the Bowery. Lots of good food. The early December weather didn't really cooperate as it rained the first two days, and was cold the next two.

All in all, it was a fun trip, and I look forward to our next trip back.