Check out the view

After we finished writing the last blog entry on Saturday morning Zab, Ruth and myself decided to show Katie central park and we all went for a run around the reservoir while Sam stay back due to an unfortunate late night caffeine incident which resulted in a night rather light on sleep for him. It was a beautifully sunny day not a cloud in the sky. We had a very sad farewell to Zab & Ruth as they left to make their way back to Edmonton, we will miss you guys and so much another huge whole in our hearts! Since it was a Saturday we decided to show Katie around some of the markets we visited last week.  The highlight of our trip was seeing Hugh Jackman at Union Square... we weren't sure if it was him at first, so we stalked him for a little while just to make sure! He naturally wasn't drawing much attention to himself so we didn't want to intrude and start taking photo's (sorry girls). We continued onto Chelsea market where us girls did what we do best, while Sam did a little more work (I make it sounds like he works all the time - he doesn't. He's just doing little bits and pieces on some little side projects he's trying to get going). While we were in the area we decided to head back to the high line so us girls could catch some more sun on such a beautiful hot day.

After a delicious dinner cooked by Sam (Tacos) we headed back downtown to start being real tourists. Our first stop was the Empire State Building to catch the view at sunset. Words can not describe how magnificent the view was, however, the amount of people up there was ridiculous! I mean who takes a napping 90 year old woman in a wheel chair, 86 floors up in the air to an our door viewing platform where there is literally a thousand people in a space not much bigger than the average balcony (don't me started on children in strollers either. Here's a hint people, leave them at home.  They don't care about nor can they see the view from there and  FYI eight year old should not still be in strollers). None the less it was spectacular and I would recommend it highly (although give yourself plenty time to get through security and all the queues).  I had to fight my way to the edge to get my photos, and i'll be dammed if I was going to miss out after paying $27 to get up there! Not to worry I got a lot!!!

Sunday morning we pried ourselves back out of bed and made our way down to times square where we lined up to get Broadway tickets. It was a long wait but worth it, we got tickets to see Jersey Boys. The show was a biographical musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. It featured all their hit songs but rooted it the Jersey/Italian neighbourhood that they grew up in - complete with uncensored language and mobster mentality. We really enjoyed it and were thrilled go have the Broadway experience tucked under our belts

We had a bit of time to kill between buying the tickets and the show.  We went for a walked from Time's Square past the Rockefeller Center to the Subway, where we caught the train back down Wall street so Katie could check it out. It was another sunny day so we hung out at the waterfront enjoying the sun for awhile.

30 Rock - The Rockefella Plaza

Water front at the bottom of Wall Street looking towards Brooklyn with Brooklyn Bridge in the Background.