After a late dinner at Virgil’s BBQ (because nothing says BBQ like NYC), we tried to beat the jetlag by sleeping late on Monday. I did not make it past 9am, but Nate slept till 2:30. Rob spent the day with his family, so it’s just Nate and I in NYC - no baseball games today.
We lunched at the Stage deli; I had a bowl of matzah ball soup and Nate, the Ben Stiller – an open-faced roast beef sandwich smothered in gravy. We walked down Seventh Avenue to Central Park in search of the Zoo.
The Zoo looked nothing like it did in the movie Madagascar – no lions, zebras or giraffes – plus no one was animated. We did enjoy the seals and polar bears.
We had to hurry down to the Children’s Zoo before it closed. It turns out sleeping all day limits our entertainment options. I stumbled into Peter Parker’s stomping grounds and I heard that there was a hairless Hare sighting.
We walked back through Central Park on our way to Times Square. We looked but did not see The Donald.
We saw the late showing of MI-3 and ended up back on the streets of Manhattan after mid-night. Most of the sit down restaurants were closed so we ended up at Famous Ray’s Pizza, or was it Ray’s Original Famous, or Original Famous Ray’s. It was good New York style pizza.