NYC 2010 – Mamma Mia!

John has been taunting me with a surprise since January.  He told my close friend Diane what the surprise was — so she knew for 2 months!  But I didn’t get to find out until the week before.  The surprise was a day-trip to New York City (via Amtrak) to see Mamma Mia! on Broadway.

We got to NYC around 10am and wandered around for a couple of hours.  Along the way we stopped at Starbucks for warm drinks.  Neither of us realized how many there are in NYC; I swear, there is one on every corner! We stopped in the Times Square information center to get some maps and brochures of what’s in the area (because we did have some time to kill).  While we were in there, we saw an exhibit of little pieces of colored paper tacked to a wall with notes on them.  It turns out that since 2007, the folks that drop the ball have been putting out pieces of colored confetti for people to write wishes on.  On New Years Eve, this confetti is what gets tossed off the top of buildings onto the crowd below.  The temptation was too great — I had to write out my wish for NYE 2011.  Can you guess what it was?  LOL

Eventually we needed some lunch so we stopped at an Irish pub for fish and chips.  It wasn’t the world’s greatest – -that honor still goes to Yorkshire County Fish Shop at Epcot.  The bread was soggy, but the fish and the tartar sauce were tasty.  John enjoyed a black and tan while he was there.

And then the show.  The theatre was very small.  The show was absolutely awesome; 100x better than the movie.  If there had to be a first time ever for seeing a real show on Broadway, then this was the best one John could have picked.  By the end, everyone was standing up and dancing — except for me because I felt bad for the little kids in the row behind me who couldn’t see.

We had such a great day.  It was so nice to get away, just us, with no cell phones ringing, a good time to look forward to after the hard time we’ve had recently, and we had all day long to just talk.

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