Tuesday, 29 November 2022

New York. Sunday November 27 2022.

We were both still a bit jet-lagged so we weren't up-and-at-em as early as we'd hoped. Still no matter.

Rain was forecast but the weather looked ok as we started the day with a bus tour of downtown.

It was when we switched to the uptown tour that things started to unravel....
Yep, It started to rain. We'd been issued plastic ponchos for just such an eventuality, but as we huddled inside our ponchos on the open top bus (there were no more seats under cover), people in the streets were pointing, and laughing, at us and we saw our plans for a leisurely stroll through Central Park dashed, I was glad we could  grab a slice of pizza & retire to our room to eat, dry out, and recover.

But then, the absolute highlight, later in the day - the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular – and spectacular it was. 90 minutes of high kicks and kick line brilliance. All remarkably perfect and fun. A definite theatre highlight. 


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