West Side Story

Today we went to see the classic New York story on Broadway: West Side Story! It was amazing!

We started off the day with a jog through Central Park to 86th street West for breakfast with Hashanti's aunt. I won't even try to explain the menu, it's enough to say that we didn't do any jogging back after breakfast, we could barely walk!

We got back from breakfast around 11h30 and started getting ready to go to the show. As I mentioned we got matinee tickets at 50% off the usual price. We had the most amazing seats ever! In the orchestra area, 10th row from the front. For those who don't know, West Side Story is the Romeo and Juliet story of New York- a Peurto Rican girl falls in love with a white New York boy and forgets about the Peurto Rican boy her family wants her to marry. It's a tragedy, so it ends with quite a few people dying, including the hero.

Broadway is right in Times Square, so the atmosphere is vibrant. All the matinee shows start at 2pm, so there were crowds waiting outside all of the theatres, besides the usual tourists walking through Times Square. There were also some interesting characters to be seen, as would be expected on Broadway. The guy below was promoting the show La Cage, which is the same as the movie Bird Cage. He was fabulous and he was flaunting it. He didn't mind posing for a picture at all!

The show was shorter than I expected, but I think it was just right, because I certainly do reach a point where it just becomes too much when the characters break into song almost every 5minutes. I have to say that I thought there was a good balance in this particular show, I didn't get at all nauseous.

After the show we decided to head for The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue. It is a beautiful store. You go through this glass area and you can descend into the store either using a curving stairway or a round glass elevator.

As soon as you get into the store you know you've entered Apple world. The place is just full of people getting into the Apple products. There's everything: Macs of all shapes and sizes, ipods of all shapes and sizes, ipads and more, including all the accessories you may think you'd need.

I got myself a 13" Mac Book. The only problem that I have with it is that it's white, but I think I'll get used to it. It's the easiest computer set up I've ever experienced. Within a few minutes I was online and doing what I needed to do. I didn't need to spend thousands extra on software, etc, etc. So I'm sitting here blogging using my new Mac.

Once you go Mac, you'll never go back!