The Ambitious Odometer

Friday, March 25, 2022

{TEEN Trip} New York City - Day 3

We kicked off today dark and early with a trip up to the Today Show Plaza...

This is always so much fun...

Today, we saw Al, who was so kind to make the rounds and speak to every single person...

and Craig, who was a fraternity brother of Hubby's at Wofford (though he started the fall after Hubby graduated, so they just missed each other)!

So much fun!

After the anchors had gone back inside and the show was almost over, we got one more close up...

We took the scenic route through Rockefeller Center...

and then booked it down to Magnolia Bakery for a cupcake breakfast...

because, why not?!?!?

We walked off our cupcakes, literally, heading from the West Village down to SoHo...

for a visit to the Museum of Ice Cream...

where we enjoyed ice cream for lunch, and not just one scoop...

There was a birthday party room where our group sang "Happy Birthday" to "Moosey Tracks", L's ice cream name (everyone gets one when you start)...

a mirrored room...

a pink subway...

an area with sprinkled walls...

and a room with hanging bananas...

I am so very grateful for this one-on-one time with L...

By the end of the tour, we'd eaten about 4 scoops of ice cream and a popsicle...

L enjoyed hanging around at the playground...

and we both had fun in the "sprinkle pool"...

From there, we walked up Broadway...

to the iconic Strand Bookstore...

where L was in Heaven...

After freshening up in the room, we walked over to dinner at John's Pizzeria...

and then, across the street to the Majestic Theatre...

for L's first Broadway show...

Though she has seen a West End show in London (and touring shows at our local theater, etc.), as it was for B and for me (though it is one of Hubby's favorites, it was not his first), Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic became her first "official" Broadway show...