NYC Trip - Day 3, Part 2

After leaving Central Park our next goal was to make it to the Marriott Marque in the theater district because there they sell same-day theater tickets for half-price. Between here and there were a LOT of landmarks including...

Radio City Music Hall

NBC Studios

The Russian Team Room

Carnegie Hall

One of the places we didn't take pictures of was St. Patrick's Cathedral. When we entered they were finishing Communion for the noon Mass. The Cathedral is simply awe-inspiring. It's almost a Catholic museum inside, full of statues of saints with bios on each one, etc. It's massive and beautiful and amazing.

After Mass, in the back of the church, was a small chapel where Eucharistic Adoration was occurring. In the chapel, the pews were filled with people singing. So, when you walked back around to the front of the large church, you didn't know where the voices were coming from, but they were filling the rafters as if from heaven. It was very cool.

We were lucky to come across three Catholic churches during our trip, all of which were beautiful. One was the Church of our Savior near Grand Central Station and the other was Holy Name, which was only a few blocks from our hotel and where we went to Mass the Sunday before we left. New York is so lucky and blessed to have so many gorgeous and historic churches available to them every single day.

After St. Patrick's we were running a bit behind schedule. We were all REALLY tired from walking now, but we had to press on.

Read the sign.. "Every deal can turn deadly!"
with Dea's name right below...
You don't know how true that is!

Gabe was really struggling from exhaustion.
DC lovingly helped him along.

We finally made it to the ticket line and got four tickets for Spamalot. We were very excited. I asked Dea if she wanted to stop by the Rockefeller Center on the way back to the hotel, but she was too tired and we all just hopped on the subway and headed back.

After an hour or two we all got dressed for the theater.

We clean up real nice!

DC outside the theater.

We arrived in the relatively small Shurbert Theater and sat in our four seats. We were surprised to see how "over dressed" we were for the evening. It appears that plays, once they've moved off of the opening run, are no longer events, but tourist attractions. And, like in Orlando, the patrons are usually dressed in the most comfortable clothes, not the nicest.

Feeling superior... okay, not really, we sat back as the lights dimmed. One of the play's characters was being played by Clay Aiken from American Idol fame. He, along with the rest of the cast were very, very funny. We had a great time.

Clay Aikens as Sir Robin.

King Arthur and his Knights
of the very round table.

After the play we were hungry so we headed back to Times Square for an over-priced, but satisfying meal at Planet Hollywood. DC was aggressively flirting with our young and handsome server named Chris. My papa bear claws wanted to strike the boy dead, but I understood it was part of the maturing process.

So I grounded her.

Just kidding.

Full and exhausted, we went back to the hotel and crashed.