days 70-78: new york city

This is the first blog entry since day 38 that Flo hasn't updated my blog! Hurray for freedom of the internet! My time in NYC has had sketchy internet I "stole" from unprotected wireless networks around other apartments. I'm not sure if it qualifies as stealing because since they didn't think to put a password for their network, it's kind of like asking for people to use it. Anyway, it wasn't that reliable.
I arrived at JFK around midnight on the 2nd/3rd and took the shuttle to the apartment in midtown. It was a pretty nice place, and good thing there was no need to take the subway because of the monsoon they were closed and people were getting crushed. The real reason of the trip was to see the Broadway shows.
Friday: Altar Boyz
Saturday: Wicked and Rent
Monday: Spring Awakening
Wednesday: Legally Blonde, the Musical

Jill won lottery tickets to Wicked, so we were front row for cheap. the reason the tickets are so cheap is because the actors are so close you can get showered in spit. I really wanted to see Rent because the 2 main original characters, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, were reappearing in the show after 11 years. I could only get standing room, but I love Rent, so it was worth it. Spring Awakening is this play written by a German guy over 100 years ago, but because of censorship laws it was forbidden and forgotten until a few years ago when they made it into a Broadway show. Jill and I were in line waiting for student tickets at 4:30 am and we weren't even the first ones there. The play was really depressing it seemed like they tried to smoosh every kind of teen angst from suicide, coming out, pregnancy, losing the v-card, incest rape, and some other things I'm probably forgetting. It was kind of a downer, but good and not quite wake up at 4 am good. Legally Blonde was really good. Jill and I were at the theatre by 5 for that one. The only thing was it was one of the biggest storms NY has seen and there were tornadoes in Brooklyn, so it was raining like a monsoon or something there. That's the only time I thought it was crazy we were out there waiting for musical tickets. I'm not kidding. The rain was falling at a 45 degree angle and the thunder was clapping shaking the windows. crazy.