Happy Birthday!

Last Friday I celebrated my 40th birthday with my sister in NYC. It started out by us getting to sleep in! We slept until 9:00! Which meant that we got a late start. After a filling breakfast at Junior's, we took the subway to downtown Manhattan and made our way to Ground Zero. We were able to take a tour of Ground Zero, but I am going to put that in a separate post.

They had grits in NYC, but we didn't trust them to cook them right!

Jennifer found Jack Bauer!


After our tour, we hurried uptown to make our reservation at Bobby Flay's Bar Americain restaurant. It was undoubtedly the best meal we had on our trip. We shared the Kentucky Hot Brown, a Gala apple salad, and hot potato chips with blue cheese sauce. There were no leftovers!


A walk was needed after our lunch, so we headed to Central Park. Apart from the shows, this was probably my favorite part of the trip. The park was still covered with snow except for the sidewalks, so it was a beautiful scene. And the weather was great! No rain on this day. Just a brisk sunny day. We found Strawberry Fields and lots of places you would see in movies or TV shows. It was a fun walk.

"I'll be there for you"...the fountain from Friends

Strawberry Fields...I am not into the Beatles, but thought the Imagine circle was neat!


The former restaurant Tavern on the Green that is now a visitor center

The Alice in Wonderland statue


Heading back to our hotel in order to change for the show, we stopped at FAO Schwarz. We even got to see two people play a song with their feet on the big piano.


The piano from the movie Big


The Godiva storefront with a desk made totally of chocolate!

We hurried to change in order to get something to eat before the show at 8:00. We found a fancy grocery store that also had a cafe. Dinner was quick but tasty because we were on our way to see Wicked! This play was an interesting twist on how the Wicked Witch of the West became "wicked".

Our restaurant for the evening!

Ready to see our first Broadway play of the weekend at the Gershwin Theatre

But the evening would not be complete without dessert after the show. We went to Roxy and both ordered cheesecake.


Mine was plain and good, but Jenn ordered some toffee version and was not as pleased. She was not having good luck with desserts on this trip! But at least we had one more day to change this...