NYC: To ♥ or not to ♥...

While most of you have seen pictures from our weekend together in NYC, I thought I would share a few of the highlights:

1. Discovering "rush tickets" for Broadway shows. Rush tickets: $26.50 (mostly) front row tickets set aside for that day's performance for the first 25 customers to ask for them at the box office. Wicked had a lottery because of its popularity, but we didn't win.

2. Scalping Wicked tickets off a random guy after discovering we weren't the lucky winners of the lottery. Experienced our first street negotiation to walk away with two orchestra level tickets, 20 rows back for $30 bucks each, only to then have the feeling in the pit of our stomachs that we were just taken and they were actually fake. They weren't and the show was AMAZING!

3. Climbing 354 stairs (22 story building) to the top of Lady Liberty's crown and then back down. Amazing views and sore muscles for two days.

4. Finding Ben's family's passenger ledgers while visiting Ellis Island

5. Walking down Canal street and being too afraid to follow the "street vendors" into the back alleys to buy a knock off handbag. Maybe next time.

6. Walking the streets of Chinatown.

7. Feeding a squirrel from my hand in Madison Square Park. Note: I have a fear of squirrels jumping on me from trees at close range. I know, ridiculous, but no comment necessary!

8. Drinking our dinner and sitting in the front row at Avenue Q.

9. The McDonald's run after Avenue Q.

10. Walking through Central Park to the Met.

11. Trying to decide if I wanted an "I ♥ NYC" t-shirts since I really don't ♥ it. Fearing regrets, I bought one anyway, but prefer my DC shirt over it.

12. Grand Central Terminal and the amazing discovering of its food market. It was like SF's Ferry Building marketplace all over again.

13. Ben's obsession to eat a meat kabob from a street vendor. He did, still alive, no signs of sickness, so that's good!

14. Finding Crumbs the bakery and discovering that they ship their cupcakes!