This morning I took a quick bus
ride over to the Guggenheim Museum. This is a beautifully designed museum
that is spiral shaped. Inside the museum the spiral walkway allows you to
see everything from top to bottom. My favorite parts are the models of
the sister museums, The Bilbao Guggenheim and the plan for the new museum in
New York, on the lower eastern riverfront.
Guggenheim Museum, New York
From there I caught the subway
down to the World Trade Center to try and get half price tickets to a show –
any show, I’m in New York – but they only have tickets for the following day,
and I am trying to go sometime today. So I walked back to Times Square to
the TKTS booth where the line for tickets was huge. I took the option of
walking to different theaters to see what I could do there. There was a
ton of shows I wanted to see eg Saturday Night Fever, Jekyll & Hyde,
Chicago, Cats etc, but I settled on Swing at The Theater – a $20 ticket in the
last row for the matinee. I ducked into McDonalds in Times Square for a
quick lunch before getting back to the show. As a single, because the
theater wasn’t full, I got upgraded to an $80 seat (Woo Hoo!). The show
was awesome! There was no real story, but a live band (on stage, not in
an orchestra pit) and dancers bringing great swing music to life. Not one
of the bigger Broadway shows, but I’m very glad I chose it.
After the show I was back on the
subway to Lower Manhattan to view the Statue of Liberty from a distance.
It was too late to catch the ferry over, yet I was right next to the Staten
Island Ferry, but not realizing it was free and would’ve given me a closer
view, I did not get on it. I will be back tomorrow to get a closer
look. I was on the verge of another migraine and my hernia was giving me
some grief so I headed back to the hostel at 6pm and stayed in for the night.
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