Two days with Tru - NYC

I spent 3 full days with Truman in NYC…well two full days with Tru and one full day at the airport waiting to get on a non full air plane.  I got there at 9 in the morning and finally got on an airplane at 9 at night…arrived  around 1 in SLC….it was tiring…but so much fun.  

I got off the red eye flight on Wednesday morn and went directly to the theatre to wait in line for rush tix  "Come from away. "  Truman met me there by 10:00—I loved  spending the day with him walking uptown to Levain bakery to get cookies for Si ( and me) and Pier 1 cafe on the Hudson. Seeing "Come from Away" as Standing Room tix.  This is the 9/1 musial about 38 planes that couldn’t land in New York so they were re routed to Gander, Newfoundland where they were taken care of by the local people for 5 days.  7,000 pleaple on planes with the 9,000 Gander- ites.  We laughed, cried and danced our way through it. One of the top ten Broadway shows I've ever seen. Truman loved it too.  Then  we went downtown to Mr. Purple's roof top bar eating guac and chips and watch a beautiful skyline basically just resting our feet. We had over 24,000 steps.....on to Cha Cha Matchas then we subwayed up to 52nd street to see "Groundhogs day-the musical."    Andy Karl was amazing. All of this after a red eye flight and one hour of sleep...

--> On Thursday we  wandered around new parts of Brooklyn and Williamsburg. So many quaint and cute ships and restaurants. Very few chains to be found which is refreshing. All of the food has been delicious beginning with Westville in the DUMBO area where a commercial was being filmed in the street with a girl on a unicorn!!  Whoopie pies  at One girl cookies.  Down to the waterfront to wander West Elm and up to Manhattan Bridge with little artist boutique shops.  Salted caramel push pops from By Chloe. And then to the William Vale boutique hotel to the roof top view. It was stunning to look back into Manhattan.  We walked and walked over 25,000 steps again.  We got to go to Tru's roommate Amanda's art job. She works for the famous artist: Boaz   and sells and curates his stacked statues that run from 40,000 to 147,000 dollars!!!   Subway back to Manhattan for window shopping and  dinner at Sweet Greens. We saw "A Bronx Tale"  about a mafia neighborhood in 1969—kind of a Jersey Boys meets West Side Story… then topped off with New York Cheesecake.