At 10:15 I'm out of the room and hopping onto line A up to 59th street. Boy it is hot and humid, I'd say it's around 90 degrees and 50-60% humidity. A quick 7 minute trip and I get to my first destination, the Apple Store at 5th avenue; as a geek this place was like heaven to me. Just from the outside the place is beautiful, check out the pic
The big cube is just the outside, right in the middle you get to the stairs down to the store. Inside you can find any thing Apple, from all Macbooks, iMacs, iPods, iPads and a ton of docks for playing digital music. The place is just awesome, yet I could not find the iPad cover/case I was looking for (odd that I didn't find it at the Apple Store yet I found one at a Brookstone in the Newark Airport next day). After Geek Paradise it was off to next door to FAO Schwarz.
If you've seen Home Alone this is the toy store they base Duncan's Toy Chest on, FAO Schwarz has any toy you could imagine. You find the Harry Potter section, the action figure section, this huge piano you can dance on and the keys will light up (you can take it home for the nice price of $250,000 dollars)
Also you have this huge Lego section with some sculptures made entirely of lego such as a Indiana Jones and this Statue of Liberty
Got a gift for her and also for my Godson, a little Red Sox puff and a Cars 2 toy for each one.
Right across the street from both store is the SE corner of Central Park, so it's time to walk like crazy in this beautiful place. Need I remind you by now it must be over 95 degrees and humid as hell so to say I was sweating is an understatement. Walked all around the park but the place I really wanted to hit was Strawberry Fields -a small section of the park dedicated to John Lennon-, if you read my blog you now I'm a big Beatles fan so this was a must. Why the place is modest it just has this great aura and was so worth the long ass walk.
Just a nice place to visit; this is up around 72nd street, so I'm about 13 blocks off the subway stop I need to take back down to Times Square. By now it's almost 1 PM so I'm starving, on the way down I decide the eatery of choice will be the Hard Rock Cafe on 44th, smack dab in the heart of Times Square. A house salad, Baby Back Ribs and a couple of Sam Adams later I got my tank filled up so it's off to wander around a bit more.
The next stop is the Hershey's Store a couple of blocks away to get some chocolates for her and for the office. Just the smell of the place is off the hook, chocolate all around. They've got these great boxes with a Times Square image and has an assortment of miniature chocolates.
Souvenir shopping, gotta get some things for friends and a final gift for her. A quick walk down on 7th to 36th to get to the World's Largest Store, Macy's to get some clothes. To say the store is huge is an understatement, it must be 8 or 10 floors high; I got a new wallet on the street level, two shirts on the second floor, a pair of shoes and two pants on the 4th. It's around 5:30 and I'm sweaty and dead tired, time to hit the hotel to rest a little and shower before the show at 8.
After the pitstop it's time to head up to Radio City Music Hall to watch the second show ever of Cirque De Soleil's Zarkana. Had a couple of drinks before the show, those 15 dollar scotch & soda's were pretty darn good.
I've always wanted to see a show at Radio City so this was a great opportunity, the show was OK but in no way was it better than that O show I saw in Vegas in April or The Beatles: Love. Also the fact that it was the second show ever show with lots of production quirks that need to be worked out. Not the best show I've seen, actually the worst of the 3 I caught this trip (Rain: tribute to the Beatles and Stomp were the other 3) but was pretty entertaining.
10:30 PM and a quick subway trip takes me back to the hotel. My legs are dead, I'm hungry and I need to get my bags packed for the trip back home. Got a couple of pizza slices which were great; NYC has got to have the best pizza around, maybe I've got to go to Chicago to see if the theory is right. Dined, packed and off to sleep. Long trip back home tomorrow, for now...
Mr Khakbaz out!!!
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