And this time, we discover more extensively in the upper part of the city as compared to our first leg, which we focus more on the lower end.
We went up the Empire State Buidling and visited Times Square to see the famous neon displays along the avenues. This place is really crowded with some big stores like M&M and Hershey's Chocolates. Most amazing was the wide variety of M&Ms to choose from.
The various theatres of Broadway is situated in Times Square and since we've heard much about Broadway musical while in Omaha especially the musical "Hairspray" that we went to queue up for the tickets. Mind you, the queue is long and extremely messy. Do prepare enough/exact cash to purchase the tickets or face getting shouted at.
I am not sure what is the rave about watching a Broadway show. Because I don't think "Hairspray" was a fantastic show like everybody had said. In fact, I thought the casts didn't do a good job at dancing in coordination nor singing in sync with one another. The "quality" of this musical isn't impressive as compared to the ones I've seen in SIN and London (minus the Paris one because it was an opera). And if "Hairspray" had gotten good reviews, that means, the other musicals are no better. Both me and WF concluded, their quality of musicals are like their food and people: Not as refined as the Europeans.
Even their famous Metropolitan Museum of Art New York was disappointing. There were so many artifacts that were replicas from other museum in Europe. We saw many familiar sculptures that reminded us of du Louvre. And we were right, the labels wrote that these displays were actually duplicates of the ones back in those European museums. And I wonder how come this museum is so crowded with so many Europeans when they can get to see "the real thing" back at home?
And remember to go early to this Met museum if you intend to. Because it closes at 5pm. But at 4.30pm, the security officers start to shout at visitors to leave ASAP. Don't these officers know that noise and echos can create "stress" to artwork? Like I said, this country is not as refined as their European counterparts. They should learn a thing or two from du Louvre. It is absolute silence in certain parts of the museum and the staff will walk over and indicate so if you talk too loudly.
It is no wonder when WF told me he'll stopover on the west coast instead of NYC in future if he were to attend the Omaha Berkshire Meeting again. Think he had a pretty bad impression of this place.
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