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So, here are the other pictures from last night. I don’t have time to label them. But the first pic is us waiting. The next is us with Anne Hathaway. And the bottom is Mark, Candice’s husband, with Raul (I can’t remember his last name now), but he played the Duke. Anyway…fun times.


shakespeare in the park

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I snuck a picture of the stage on my phone before the play started. The stage alone was super impressive!!!

So, thanks to my fabulous friends who got up at the crack of dawn this morning to go stand in line for five hours while I worked, we all got to see Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Anne Hathaway was the major headliner, but I think Audra McDonald (of Private Practice fame) was probably the show stopper. Or…well, really, the whole performance was PHENOMENAL!!! It was the first live performance of Shakespeare I have ever seen and all I can say is that I’m sad I wasted so many years of my life not knowing just how amazing Shakespeare is live! I mean, I know the stories, and I’ve seen a number of movies, but it’s just different. And all of the live music, both instrumental and vocal…fabulous!

And then there was the theater itself. From our seats, we could see the castle behind the stage (look at the picture again…castle is real, not part of set). There was a beautiful sunset making me appreciate all the gray skies I’ve had since moving here. No rain (a miracle in and of itself). Seriously, incredible. And, afterward, we all got to meet the cast, including Anne Hathaway. She was so nice, too (as were they all). I’m a huge fan. I just wish I could see it again! (Assuming I move here next summer, I will for sure be getting here in time to do this again!)
P.S. Picture of all of us with Anne Hathaway to come.

where does the time go?

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Okay, I know where it goes. It disappears with work, commuting, eating out, the gym (which at this point is only ensuring that I don’t balloon from all of the delicious food here), Broadway shows, movies, starting and finishing a 350+ page book, and sightseeing. The two activities not getting much of my time? Internet communications (emailing, reading blogs, writing blogs, etc) and sleeping. 
It has been a seriously packed week…in fact, “sleeping in” on Saturday gave me my best night of sleep the whole week; a whopping 5 hours. And it’s not that I don’t have a lot to share. That’s the problem. I’m doing so much that I have too much to share so I don’t share any. In the meantime, here is a list of all that I did this week:
  • Sunday – Got back from my quick trip to Arizona, headed to the Harrison’s for dinner, wandered Riverside Park (of You’ve Got Mail fame), saw the apartment building from Enchanted, home to unpack.
  • Monday – Work, trainer, out to dinner with my new friend, Alisa (currently getting her MBA at NYU and interning at L’Oreal) which consisted of dinner, wandering the Lower East Side, dessert at Cups and Cones, a stop for Alisa at the Dessert Truck (yes, it’s a truck…with dessert), and then back home. Began the book.
  • Tuesday – Work, and then I can’t even remember what else I did on Tuesday because that’s how full my week has been. Maybe it will come to me? And it just did (pre-posting). I’m not sure how I forgot this. Pete Yorn came to play at the Apple store in SoHo…for FREE!!! So I took myself down there (sad the girls weren’t in town to join me) and listened to him play a bunch of songs from his new album, some old favorites and a few amazing covers. When the live recording comes out on iTunes (which I’m sure it will) you’ll know I was there. After which I got myself dinner at The Creperie on McDougal (thank you Oliver!). 
  • Wednesday – Work, then hung out with Kelly and Sarah who were finally back in town. We had dinner at Toast (a favorite) and then ice-cream at Ben & Jerry’s. Yummy!
  • Thursday – Work, delicious sushi at Haru, and then I went to see 9 to 5, with Allison Janney, Stephanie J. Block, and Megan Hilton…and yes, I totally met Allison Janney after the show. AMAZING!!!
  • Friday – Work, trainer, and then met up with the girls at Shake Shack, followed by The Proposal. (P.S. That movie is hilarious!!! I am in love with Ryan Reynolds!)
  • Saturday – Woke up at 8:30 (that’s an extra 2.5 hours of sleep over the norm…except that I’d gone to bed about 3:30) to talk to Emily in Boston. Met up with Sarah, Kelly, and Candice for lunch at Freeman’s (amazing!!!), spent a couple of hours reading in Barnes & Noble (we had some time to kill), then up to try for the lottery for In the Heights. Sarah won two tickets (and by “won”, I mean won the right to purchase two tickets at $26.50 a piece), so she went with her friend, Keila, and Kelly and I went to another movie. 
All in all it was  busy week. There’s just soooo much to do here…and see…and eat. And this week is already shaping up to be just as busy…if not busier.
So, I’m going to throw a couple of pictures up and call it a night. 

girls’ night out #2

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Sharla Lovell, me, Monica Harrison, and Erin Davis  
(They all have blogs that you can link to on my sidebar…no patience for html right now)

So, the second week I was here, Sarah and I met up with a couple of the MBA spouses for a girls’ night out (can’t remember if I blogged about it or not). Anyway, this last week, we did it again. We were going to maybe do dinner and a show, but due to my unexpected trip to AZ this weekend, I needed to get home so I could pack up. In any case, this week we went to this darling little restaurant (of which there are four in Manhattan) called Petite Abeille (translated, it means “little bee”). It’s Belgian and I am always looking for good Belgian fare. 

Unfortunately, because I came straight from work (notice the outfit) I didn’t have my camera with me, so I don’t have any food pics. But not to worry. I’m sure I’ll go back. The muscles were delicious…as was the huge waffle with ice cream we all shared for dessert. I was very pleased with the food and the ambiance. 
Oh, and as an aside, I have started two entries on my sidebar. One with shows I’ve seen, and the other with places I’ve eaten in New York, in case you want to check any of them out (especially if you should make it out to New York any time in the near future.

mormon dance party…on a boat

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Before moving out to New York, Sarah emailed me to see if I wanted to go on this Singles’ harbor cruise. Being me…I said yes, because I hate not doing things unless I have a really good reason not to. Really, it turned out to be dancing on a boat, but I did get to see the city skyline at night, and the Statue of Liberty. The fun part, in terms of dancing, is that normally Mormons dancing…kind of lame. But, when no one can leave, apparently it’s much better.

There were some other interesting parts to the evening, too. (Let’s just say I heard this kid’s life story…which included multiple TMI moments. I feel like I’ve met my “nice” quota for the year.)
And, to document the evening, I have the fabulous self-portrait at the top of this post (thanks to Sare…her camera is the best self-portrait camera EVER)! I have a few other pictures, but I haven’t downloaded them yet and I am currently in AZ, while my camera is still in NY.