Friday, July 17, 2009

We're going to the zoo, you could come too... (16th July)

Today was our first amateur travellers error. After the free concert in Central Park, we should have known that New Yorkers love free events. So when the Bronx Zoo is free on a Wednesday and it's school holidays it's actually the best day to be anywhere else! We thought it was a good idea to save on the entry fee but the $15pp would have been worth it for our sanity. It was a ZOO!! It was cool seeing all the school kids in their coloured holiday programme shirts, but the swarms got tedious very quickly. Animal highlights include, Margaret the baby giraffe (extra special as Margaret, Mike's Mum's fav animal is the giraffe), the mole rats in the Mouse House, the snowy owl, the puffins and of course the bison and the history that goes with them. Robert 'friend of the zoo' told us that the zoo was set up specifically to save the bison (buffalo). Zoo low lights include the kids banging on the glass while the adults repeatedly used flash photography in the nocturnal exhibits. Dad we didn't go in the House of Birds, but we thought of you and your fear of them!
Back on the subway past Freeman Street station and back to the Spaceshoe house to meet Jason and get into our bests for dinner and a show on Broadway. We had standing 'seats' at the back of the theatre for Hair -because they were cheap and more importantly give room for Kevin to dance (it was his 21st time seeing it!) The legs have definitely had a working over already! It was great to see a Broadway show and the cast of Hair put on a great performance for us. Back through Times Square once more, sadly Shona still hasn't managed to find an I heart NY singlet even though it seems like we have looked in every shop in the midtown area....
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  1. UnknownJuly 17, 2009 at 6:50 AM

    wow - you sure are fitting in a wide variety of NY experiences. Nice weather is helping eh - and having jason and his friends as local advisors means you get to know about special deals

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  2. a_taggJuly 17, 2009 at 7:57 AM

    Ooops - make a note of this learning experience when you get to Paris and think about whether to go to the Louvre's free admission day on the first Sunday of the month. No actually I take that back - I see that you are departing Paris at 8am on the first Sunday in September - won't be an issue, so you can forget I mentioned it :P

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  3. UnknownJuly 17, 2009 at 9:20 AM

    Your accounts of your adventures are great! It is the next best thing to being there. I drink out of my 'I love NY' mug most days - there must be a singlet or t shirt somewhere Shona. Have fun with Mindy and Tim.

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  4. shonaandmikeJuly 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM

    Yeah -lesson well and truly learned A!
    Thanks Mum -Mindy actually spotted one that Shona liked... so keep an eye out for that in future posts! :o)

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  5. Janine KJuly 17, 2009 at 3:36 PM

    So I gather you didn't feel the need to get naked while watching Hair!!!

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  6. a_taggJuly 17, 2009 at 5:37 PM

    Hmm - am I missing a pop culture reference here Janine? Does one get naked while watching Hair or is that just something Australians do when they go to the theatre?

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  7. Janine KJuly 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM

    Ah Andrew, I see that Hair the Musical did not reach New Zealand until 2002, it was in Melbourne in 1971, so we are obviously 30 years ahead of New Zealand once again!!! New Zealand actually had the soundtrack banned because of supposed explicit language, so they obviously wouldn't tolerate nudity of any kind at all!!

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