status so far...

[acroyear]

• nice romantic dinner for our 5th anniversary : Roy Rogers to Go on the NJ Turnpike - CHECK
  
• almost miss the first show and end up paying way too much for a single night's parking - CHECK
• Beauty and the Beast on Broadway - CHECK.
• hotel acceptable but with horrid view - CHECKED IN.
• actually get on screen in the background of the Today Show - CHECK
• discover that the nearest Starbucks to Rockefeller is under it - CHECK
• take a pic as cyd lobs a golf ball straight into the water - CHECK
• (she'll tell you all about the first one i didn't see...)
• discover every post office but one in manhattan is closed on saturdays - CHECK
• go back to the car to get all the crap we forgot - CHECK
• see old guy on motorcycle with italian opera blaring away at high volume - CHECK
• Top of the Rock, 70 stories up, making mothers day phone calls (early) and tons of pics (you'll see 'em later) - CHECK
  
• decent scottish pub (the only one in nyc) - CHECK
  
• grey-line sightseeing bus tour through lower manhattan, taking 20-30 minutes longer than usual because traffic in soho sucked dingos kidneys - CHECK
• dinner in "The View", a rotating restaurant on the top floor of the Marriot between Lion King and Beauty's theaters - CHECK
• The Lion King on Broadway - WOW WOW WOW WOW SEE IT SEE IT SEE IT.  - (check)
• find the broadway soundtrack albums far cheaper at the virgin megastore - CHECK
• ready to go to in-laws for mothers day dinner - NOT HARDLY and we only have 45 minutes to get out of here.

bye all.  more later.

Comments

[crimsontom.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary and sorry Julia and I couldn't meet up with you. Her Master's recital is next weekend and with family coming in and the last minute prep, we've been buried. btw- THe post offices are open on Saturday's, they just close at 1.

What hotel did you stay at?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

The Post Office that was closed was on 43rd between 5th and 6th.

We were @ the Club Quarters, on 45th between 5th and 6th, 3 "short" blocks away from Rockefeller and a mere 1 long block away from Times Square.

The "cheap" rooms have windows that view the building A/C on top of the restaurant/conference room floor (2nd floor). if the other buildings around it weren't taller, they probably would have made it a rooftop terrace. the main building's only 12 stories tall, and tiny - the only ice machine is in the basement.

the room was nice; merely the view sucked.

[sagcelt62.livejournal.com]

decent scottish pub (the only one in nyc) - CHECK

Let me know more about this, please, especially location. Thanks!

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

St. Andrew's, Manhattan, 44th st, between 6th and 7th Avenue, about a block away from Times Square.

They've got a stash of the Glenmorangie 15 hidden away, if asked. But only if asked, it's not on the menu. ;)

COOL

[sagcelt62.livejournal.com]

Thanks