Day 12 - Tram and Theatre

Today was a relatively low key day, but it was bitterly cold during the day (-6 deg's) but still with no snow.  We started off subwaying it over to the East side to catch the Tram over to Roosevelt Island.  When we got off  the subway we had a little bit of a stroll to get to the Tram and on the way we stumbled across Dylan's Candy Store. I kid you not, three levels of lollies, chocolates and the like. We bought these flavours to have a taste test, haven't cracked them yet, so can't comment, but bacon chocolate, who would have thunk it?

Nick trying to make his sweet selection

 

Sour Fart lollies available at Dylan's on any given day

 

Mack at the lower level of Dylan's

 

We then headed to the Tram ride, I use the term Tram loosely, as it is actually a cable car, it takes about 4 or 5 minutes to get across to Roosevelt Island and a lovely view is taken up and down the Avenues and the East river. In the 60's / 70's Roosevelt Island was developed for low cost housing.  It actually looks really quite modern, obviously had a facelift or two since inception.  Had everything you need there, subway (both train and food chain), supermarkets, nail and beauty salons, fire station, schools, parks, it's own bus system , mental hospital and heaps more.

 

This is Roosevelt island -It isn't massive, but I think houses around 10,000 residents.

 

This is the cable car taking off from NYC, we reckon it holds around 100 people.

 

When we finished at the Tram, we headed back to the subway through Bloomingdales and had a bit of a wander, Peter was looking for a party shirt but to no avail. But we did stumble across a display of the Beatles drum kit, apparently this was the real deal, so a photo op was begging with our resident budding drummer.

 



 

At times square we had some lunch and then Sue and I went to see "Motown the Musical" the story of Motown Records, it was really good and the singing was excellent. We left the theatre and it was arctic cold, we crossed the block and went into Junior's bar and restaurant, by this time it was 5pm, we were to meet Peter and the boys at 6.40pm at the theatre next door to see the Lion king. Junior's was packed to the rafters, at this point we were just happy to stand and wait with everyone else as it was warm and close to the next Theatre.  We were standing in the foyer area for about 5 min's when I heard the door bitch yell out "there are a couple of seats at the bar, 1st in 1st served", "That's us, We'll take it" I yelled back.

 

We had an hour and forty minutes to kill at the bar and neither of us really wanted much, just wanted to be indoors and warm. We ordered waters and sat on them, then ordered a slice of New York Cheese Cake to share and sat on that, then ordered a hot chocolate and sat on that, finally the 1 hour and 40 minutes passed and we went to meet the Duplex males.

 

Let me tell you, Lion King the theatre production was just excellent.  I walked out of Motown thinking how good that was, but the Lion King left Motown in it's dust.  I was sitting next to Nick and he was clapping with vigour and enthusiasm, he loved it.

 

 

Then it was back into the freezing cold and head back to the subway to come home.