Traveling in New York City? Then follow the lady's advice here and don't go anywhere without your Metro card!
Our day began in Bryant Park. Each Thursday performers from musicals on Broadway come and perform signature songs from their show for one hour.
Today there were performances from members of Young Frankenstien, Rent, Grease, and Legally Blonde the Musical. There were lots of people there. We saw business people on their lunch hour, day care center groups of children, retired people, etc.
This is the cast from a Broadway show that hasn't yet opened. It is called 13 (could you guess maybe from what it says on their shirts?).
Bryant Park could be considered small compared to Central Park but it is a busy place. Tables are set aside for playing chess, checkers or backgammon with all of the equipment supplied by the park. A reading area has portable carts with newspapers, books - both children and adult, and magazines. All of the reading material is also supplied by the park. In addition to the mid day music, on Tue thru Thurs there is music at 5pm and we have a carousel. While sitting in the shade there were 4 bocci games going on under the trees. Yes, you guessed it, that equipment is supplied by the park. BUT these dominoes are mine. We decided to play a couple of games.
All of this concentration paid off for her. She won almost every game.
Games DeaSha did not win were taken by John. See how hard he is thinking?
Next we hopped a bus and went to Columbus Circle. This is one of the main entrances to Central Park. Here we ate hot dogs and got some honey roasted peanuts.
Ever the photographer, I decided that it is boring to only take snapshots of people smiling. So . . . here she is in an unsmiling pose!
Since we actually were in Colombus Circle I thought a photo with the statue dedicated to Columbus in the background would be appropriate. Easier said than done. So many people, so many cars, so many signs!
We finally wandered into Central Park. Many of the bridges look like pieces of art in themselves. We walked for a while and then sat at one of the many baseball fields. Games were going on with teams from the Broadway Softball League. We watched the team from the show Mary Poppins play against the team from In the Heights. Mary Poppins lost. :>(
The next game was the team from Enchanted Atlantic against Chicago. Then the rain came and we headed for shelter in an Au Bon Pan restaurant.
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