NYC Thanksgiving
My mum is coming to NYC to visit starting on Tuesday. I just got to see her for three weeks a bit ago, so I don't miss her THAT much yet, but I do miss her of course and I'm looking forward to the visit a LOT. She was going to bring a friend, who backed out because she thought she would have a job during Thanksgiving (which of course she doesn't have.) So she's by herself, but she's so anxious about possible terror attacks and I'm worried that that will ruin her trip because my boyfriend's family is also BIGTIME afraid of terrorism despite the fact that they live so close to New York City. Oh, well. I'm trying to make an itinerary today and plan out when we're going to do things and what, if anything, we won't be able to do because of Thanksgiving. I wanted to go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade because I've always wanted to, but that was soundly voted down by everyone else, who decided it would be too early and too cold. (For these same reasons, Key and I might not be able to go to the ball drop for New Year's Eve, which would also be disappointing.)
So the big event of today was ordering tickets for Broadway. I found a few great sites for Broadway discounts and that worked out, for four people (me, mom, boyfriend, boyfriend's sister), to be a savings of something like $160. So that was exciting. Mom is a big Rosie O'Donnell fan and so I originally wanted to see Fiddler on the Roof with her, but the user reviews I read were not the best, so I went with Hairspray. I hope it's good and I hope we have a great time. Key and I saw The Producers last August, with full price tickets of $100 each, and it was wonderful, maybe the best musical I've ever seen. I love musicals, I have to say.
One weird thing, though-- I was checking the tickets yesterday, and there was an option to send the tickets by standard mail for no extra charge. Today, though, I guess it was too late, and so the only feasible option was to use a thing called TicketFast, which emails you your tickets, and you print them out and bring them to the theatre. There's no will call unless you're international. Personally, this kind of takes some of the excitement from the show, because who wants to keep paper tickets as souvenirs? Planes went the way of the e-ticket, and now it seems that concerts and plays are too.
So the big event of today was ordering tickets for Broadway. I found a few great sites for Broadway discounts and that worked out, for four people (me, mom, boyfriend, boyfriend's sister), to be a savings of something like $160. So that was exciting. Mom is a big Rosie O'Donnell fan and so I originally wanted to see Fiddler on the Roof with her, but the user reviews I read were not the best, so I went with Hairspray. I hope it's good and I hope we have a great time. Key and I saw The Producers last August, with full price tickets of $100 each, and it was wonderful, maybe the best musical I've ever seen. I love musicals, I have to say.
One weird thing, though-- I was checking the tickets yesterday, and there was an option to send the tickets by standard mail for no extra charge. Today, though, I guess it was too late, and so the only feasible option was to use a thing called TicketFast, which emails you your tickets, and you print them out and bring them to the theatre. There's no will call unless you're international. Personally, this kind of takes some of the excitement from the show, because who wants to keep paper tickets as souvenirs? Planes went the way of the e-ticket, and now it seems that concerts and plays are too.