Ok, I've learned that when your window faces several giant, animated, illuminated Times Square billboards, that you can wake up in the middle of the night and not know if it's night or day. The light even shines through the blackout curtains. But I love it!!!
Yesterday morning was wet and rainy. Still, we decided to move forward with our plans. We cabbed over to the Intrepid Aircraft Carrier museum. I have always wanted to go on an aircraft carrier ever since playing the game "Battleship" and sinking the piece with five holes.
It was SO impressive. Rob declared it one of the best military museums that he had ever existed. They did a movie/simulation of a Kamakazi attack during WW2. Afterwards, they told us that if we had been on the very spot that we were on, we would have been one of the 69 people killed. I started crying then. It was so emotional, and so well done.
The girls got into it pretty well, and surprisingly, we didn't hear the world "American Girl" come up. Gina and I tried a G-Force flight simulator, going upside down for a little while!
Afterwards, we headed to Lincoln Center where Cathy's roommate, Brennan, had arranged a tour for us. I had never been to Lincoln Center, which shocked both of the girls. I had liked it ever since seeing the opera featured in the movie "Moonstruck".
It was a great tour. The highlight for me was visiting the New York City Ballet. The interior was designed to look like the inside of a jewelry box, and it really did feel like that. The cherry on top was that they were rehearsing for Swan Lake, so there was a ballerina in costume on the center of the stage - even more like being in a jewelry box! I felt like I was a miniature person. We stayed and watched the rehearsal for 15 minutes, absolutely transfixed. Vincent cried, so Rob took him out. Ha, ha.
As we left, our guide looked at Vincent and said, "Maybe you'll be the next prince in Swan Lake." Rob said, "I don't think so!" It was really funny.
We got back to the hotel and rented "Paul Blart Mall Cop". Hmmmm, we went from Swan Lake to Paul Blart. Rob said that we covered the cultural spectrum in an hour.
Cathy showed up, and we picked up takeout from Junior's - more cheesecake.
As we are surrounded by a bunch of Broadway theaters, I told the girls that we could go downstairs and meet some of the stars after the show. They decided that they really wanted to meet Marcia Gay Harden since she was in the "American Girl - Felicity" movie.
We went to the stage door of "God of Carnage", where she was performing. Jeff Daniels was the first to come out, so we got his picture and autograph. Then, Marcia walked out with Hope Davis. She lit up when she saw Claire and Gina and spent a lot of time talking with them. They got her picture and autograph, and were on cloud nine.
Next, we walked back over to where "The Little Mermaid" is showing to say hi to Cathy's friend, Eric. We knew that it would take awhile for him to get his eel makeup off, so we waited. Then - Drew Seeley walked out. He starts as the role of Prince Eric on the 9th, so he was there to watch the show. He starred as the voice of Troy in "High School Musical" and starred in a recent movie, "Another Cinderella Movie". A teen heartthrob. The girls were SOOOOO excited when he came out, but kept their calm. Suddenly, the teenagers next to us broke out in a full screaming mayhem, and Drew literally ran away. I told Claire and Gina that if the teens hadn't done that, he looked like he was going to go over and talk to them. C and G were just happy to have laid eyes on him and breathed air from the same space.
After Eric came out, we went to the stage door of Angela Lansbury's show, but she had exited out another door, so we never saw her. Eric came back up to our room to say hi to Cathy, and ended up staying until 4am! We had a graet time.
The weather is supposed to be nice today, so we're looking forward to it!
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