Day One

We got up early-ish on this Sunday morning and headed out to a cafe on Montague that I forget the name of. It was pretty good, but not the best breakfast ever -- we probably won't go back there...

Once we got back to the apartment, we spent the rest of the morning and into the early afternoon unloading the U-Haul. It wasn't too bad, excpet for the few really big awkward items, like the couch and one of the bureaus. The biggest pain ended up being the box spring, of all things. It's very light, but unlike the mattress, it is entirely inflexible, and for a while we really thought that we weren't going to be able to get it up the last flight of stair at all. Finally, we unscrewed one of the support bracketts for the banisiter, pulled the banister aside and forced the box spring up.

Once we had everything in the apartment, Stew and I took the U-Haul back to the nearest depot while Suzy and Jenn cleaned the kitchen and bathroom, unpacked a few boxes, and went to the enarby Tru Value Hardware to get a new shower curtain rod.

Stew and I managed to get to the U-Haul depot without much trouble, and the truck return went smoothly, except that there turned out to be a parking ticket tucked into the hood that I hadn't noticed. It seems that you aren't supposed to leave a commercial vehicle on our street overnight. Oops. Oh well, it was worth the cost to have it parked across the street from our front door overnight for easy unloading in the morning. (Though you think that cop who moved his car might have mentioned it...)

Stew and I spent a good half-hour walking back to the apartment from the depot, and by the time we got back and got cleaned up, the four of us were running late for the dinner reservation we had made for an early supper before the show we were going to see that night.

Once we got into Manhattan, we went straight to the theatre to pick up the tickets we had ordered online, then went to the restaurant to see if we could still get in and out before the show.

At Ruby Foo's they had no trouble seating us right away, and we ended up having a nice Japanese meal there, including some good sushi. They were very quick for us too, and we had no trouble getting out of there well before showtime.

We walked down to the theatre and got in line for Chicago! Jenn was, understandably, quite excited as we shuffled toward the door. We got inside and the first thing that struck me about the theatre was how small it seemed! I guess I'm actually quite spoiled by the Imperial.

Our seats were good, only a few rows back, off to one side of the right aisle. Once the show began, I was surprised just how close we were -- the vast amounts of skin and toned muscles going back and forth across the stage was somewhat overwhelming at first. Those were some fit and sexy people, and they weren't wearing much...

Anyway, the show was great, all-around and we all really enjoyed ourselves.

Oh, and I should mention that Billy Flynn was played by none other than Luke Duke himself, Tom Wopat. He was quite good -- maybe not the greatest leading man ever in a musical, and perhaps a tad over-the-hill, but he's LUKE DUKE, so it was cool. Also, the guy who played Amos, Kevin Chamberlain (who is one of those "hey, I know that guy" character actors), was really good. His version of Mr. Cellophane was quite good too.

After the show, we met up with Stephen and Sandra, who were in town fort he weekend and at the show aas well, and the six of us went for a drink and abite to eat -- I don't remember the name of the place, but it was only a few blocks away from Broadway and it was a nice place.

After a few drinks and a lot of talking, S&S went back to their hotel, and the rest of us hopped back on the subway to Brooklyn. A long day, but a good one!