New York 2025-Day 7

This was our most relaxed day so far. We had so much reading and writing and dreaming we wanted to do on this trip, and we'd been so busy doing all the active outing things, we had not done as much of that as we really wanted. (It's hard to say "nope" to attending a Broadway show or going to a comedy club.) So, on this Thursday, we chose to "nope" out on almost everything.

We had a leisurely breakfast at the same diner where we had breakfast on our 12-hour layover day in NYC back in August. When Buds picked it, he didn't remember it was the same place until we walked in the door. The same scaffolding was still up around the building, so that helped. 😉

Andrews NYC Diner got our day off to a hearty beginning.

A stroll home through the garment district's fabric stores had us talking about how much Monkey would enjoy going into these shops to explore.

So settled were we on the idea of a day staying in, we each went to our preferred spot to pick up our future lunch so we could take it home with us and put it in the mini-fridge. Then we met at Culture Coffee before walking home.

It was the perfect day for a staying-in-day in Manhattan, and then around 6:15, it was time to get ready for our nighttime activity!

These seats were on the very side in row D, so we could see feet, but not the extreme left side of the stage.

The people we were sitting next to were locals, and we had a great time chatting about the shows they had seen over the years. And the woman right next to me did warn us that Mormon was raunchy.

We'll do a grand wrap-up post of our Theater experiences, but we laughed hard and long at The Book of Mormon, and our seat mate was not wrong, it was raunchy and raw, and full of racist stereotypes. The actors playing the 2 main Mormon missionary leads were especially perfectly cast.

I was also fascinated by how the words can be so divorced from the feeling of the music. It's similar to when you say to your dog in that sing-song, loving voice, "You are so stupid! What a stinky stupid dog you are." And the dog loves it and wags and barks, or in our case, laughs and claps.

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The person we saw playing Elder Cunningham (Cody Jamison Strand) has had the role since 2013. Buds and I were stunned because, at least in stage makeup, he looks about 22.

We stopped for a post-production dessert on Broadway, then headed home for our final sleep in the city that never sleeps.

This was a very good day.