Spending twelve hours in a car with nothing to do but stare at the road ahead can be a bit boring, but once you get to where you're going it all seems worth it. Over the weekend my mom and I went to New York yet again to visit my sister. We drove through Ohio, Pennsylvania, and part of New Jersey. It was beautiful to see all the hills and open land in Pennsylvania. Stopping in New Jersey for gas we learned that you don't pump your own gas there, which I found very different than other states.
My sister is living in Lake Grove, New York which is about an hour from the city. On saturday we took the train to the city and then the subway to Manhattan where we went to the high line. This used to be a railroad but was turned into a path which looks down at the streets. It was a great veiw of the city and you didn't have to deal with all the people on the streets.
When we got off the high line we walked to times square to buy tickets for a broadway play. There were people everywhere and of course there was a long line. The line went pretty fast and soon we were at the front of the line where a huge cluster of people waited to get tickets like us. My mom ordered the tickets for Phantom of ther Opera and we made our way through the crowd. We decided to walk to Macy's which was about ten blocks away. Our legs were getting sore and it was cold so we went into a restuarant and sat down. As we were deciding on what to eat my mom realized that we only got two tickets instead of three. One of the slips was just a receipt for the other two tickets. We left the restuartant and walked as fast as we could trough the bustle. Once we got there they let us get another ticket but it would be somewhere else in the theater.
After we got over the frustration of the tickets we decided it was time to eat something. We walked to where the play would take place and decided to eat close by. The restaurant we ate at was called Roxy and had very good food. While waiting for the play to start we decided to check out the souvenir store. I got a sweatshirt and then browsed little snow globes with the Empire State Building in them.
It was about a half hour before the show when we decided to go to the theater. That's when we saw the line going from the theater and around the corner of the building next to it. The line went fast and we were soon inside the Majestic Theater. After a long day of walking around the city I was worn outbut the play was very good. By the time we got back to my sister's place it was late and we we're all tired from the long day. It was nice but it made me appreciate the small town that I am from.
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