My friend Chris and I went to New York to celebrate her birthday. We took the train from DC up to Penn Station Friday afternoon. It's just over 3 hours by train. We got there took a taxi to our hotel ~ Hilton New York (on Avenue of the Americas). Since we got in close to eight we hurried out to find someplace to eat. We stopped at Rosie O'Gradys (they were participating in restaurant week). I'm glad I chose the restaurant week menu because I was not impressed with the food or the staff at this restaurant. We strolled around Time Square for a little bit before we headed back to the hotel. Saturday morning we woke up and walked by the NBC Studio, walked up to 5th Avenue (we were up to early to shop at this point though). We then headed towards Central Park and sat at outside seating just outside of FAO Schwartz. While we were sitting there we noticed the Wiggles having some sort of special with GMA (I think it was GMA). We also walked into the Plaza and were taken aback by how beautiful it was in there. Afterward we headed into FAO Schwartz and ironically enough I ran into a co-worker (I had no idea she was in NYC) ~ what a small world. Then we perused through Tiffany's (and no I did not buy anything).
We had lunch at the StarDust diner (the staff sings at this restaurant). While it was a neat environment it was way too loud for me! You are just stuffed into this restaurant ~ it's very hard to have a conversation there.
Chris was able to get us tickets to Wicked. It was FANTASTIC!!! I highly recommend seeing it.
Chris also made reservations at the oldest fine dining restaurant in America, Delmonicos (located in the Financial District). Whom also was participating in restaurant week. So we had a meal that cost us $35 a piece (would normally be well over $100 a piece). I had a salad, petite fillet mignon, and chocolate peanut mousse. Everything was absolutely delicious!!!
The only bad part of the weekend was our seven hour train ride home. We had some horrible weather come through our area that knocked trees on the the tracks and onto wires close to the tracks. We were two stops away from our vehicle and then we came to a complete stop for several hours.
Hope you enjoyed your birthday celebration Chris!! It was a great idea!!!
