New York City
I am surprised how much I am enjoying this city, despite the fact that our first day here felt like winter. We were not prepared when stepping off the plane in shorts and t-shirts.
After getting into Newark Airport around 4:50am on Saturday we made it into the city just after 6:00am. To try and fight jetlag we decided it was best to stay up until it was time to go to bed New York time, which wasnt easy considering we really had been up for about 24 hours at this point.
After dropping off our bags at the hostel we decided to head to the NBC studios to try and get in line for Saturday Night Live standby tickets. The line was pretty long, with people that looked like they had been there all night. Sadly they ran out of standby tickets before we got to the front of the line so we didnt get a chance to see the show.
At this point it was still pretty early so we headed to McDonalds for an egg mcmuffin. This is only the 2nd time since being gone that we have had McDonalds, and all though my hashbrowns were really greasy it was pretty tasty 
Sean spent some time in New York City before heading to Europe for his trip so I was worried that he was going to be bored seeing everything again. But I was happy to hear after we got some tickets that he hadnt taken one of the double decker tour buses. This seemed like the best way to see Manhattan. Although it was incredibly cold we had a great time touring the bottom half of Manhattan.
It seems like when I think of New York City the first thing that pops into my head is Broadway. We have tickets to see The Lion King and Wicked while we are here but we thought we would check out a half price ticket place to see if there was anything else we wanted to see. This place sells same day tickets for shows at about half the price. Most of the shows we had never heard of so we decided to see Boeing, Boeing. It was a play so the line was 2 people long instead of 100 for the musicals, which helped with the decision.
After doing some wash and wanting so badly to take a nap we headed to the play. Come to find out it had Christine Baranski in it (she was Cybil, the tv show). There were some other people from tv and movies which is much more than either of us expected. It was so funny.
I was pretty much falling asleep at this point but holding on for a few more hours since it was only 5 at this point. After dinner and then a drink we headed back to the hotel to go to sleep.
It was one of the longest days of my life.
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