Thursday, 3/25 - Blogabond

Thursday: Well, we still had energy to do more stuff! We started out the day by going to Fifth Avenue and browsing at some of the shops: Bloomingdale's, Tiffany, the really cool Apple store, and best of all, FAO Schwarz which still has the famous piano as in "Big". We found a street bagel stand. There was a Jewish parade of numerous noisy Lubavitcher vans (you don't see that kind of thing in Seattle!). We walked back across Central Park to the upper west side and located the house where James Dean lived! Then, it was time to meet our cousin, Shelli, and her four year old daughter, Malka, at the American Museum of Natural History. What a great time in dinosaur heaven! It was so fun to see Shelli and to meet Malka who is absolutely adorable! We found a dinosaur called "Corythosaurus" (I think) and Cory was thrilled to meet his namesake. And then Cory found his way to Malka's heart by playing a game where he picked her up and put her down a couple times. Then, they were fast friends, checking out the dinosaurs together. It was a fun visit, and next time we look forward to meeting the rest of Shelli's family, too!

We returned to the hotel to rest and get ready for our big evening out. Cory located a restaurant (his iphone was really helpful on this trip!) with a Montana theme which features buffalo. We went there and had buffalo steaks which were delicious. Then, we hung out for awhile at a coffee place (so we wouldn't miss Seattle too much!) before going to the theater to see Wicked! We were in the seventh row and saw everything just great, including flying monkeys overhead. We will never think of the Wicked Witch of the West in the same way again. It was the total back story of Oz.

Then, it was time to go out after the show. Cory wanted to go to a bar called McGee's which is purported to be the prototype of the bar in the TV show "How I Met Your Mother" with Neil Patrick Harris. Well, we went to it, but it looked like just a basic bar, nothing special. So, we left and decided to go to a bar called Therapy which was one of the gay bars recommended to us by the people at Ochi's. It's on 52nd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. It was wonderful! It's got a really cool vibe and a really comfortable space on two floors. A nice crowd (and very nice eye candy!). On the second floor, there was a show going on with guys who volunteered for a dance competition (stripped to their underwear!) The MC was a woman who used to be on Broadway, entertaining us with jokes and song ("I'll do Bette, Liza, or Barbra"). She was fairly scantily clad as well. Then, Cory bought us drinks. And I had the most amazing Lemon Drop I have ever had (it's my favorite drink). It was shaken so much it had foam on the top. It was delicious and incredibly strong as if it was all vodka with a half teaspoon of lemon juice! I was plastered after the one drink, and Cory found this extremely amusing. So, we needed to go somewhere to sober up. We found a diner which looked exactly like the diner in "Seinfeld", and I gradually came back to earth after a BLT and some of Cory's fries. It was a fun night, what can I say?

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dafna33 on April 4, 2010 from New York, United States

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I forgot about the bar "therapy" - we went there too, and they had a mini drag show / lip sinc going on that was a lot of fun. Then they showed the season finally of Desperate Housewives on the huge screen TV... it was a good time!

written by Teresa Busch on April 7, 2010

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