The $4.00 Breakfast and $20 Snack

The beauty of vacation!!! Nobody moved a muscle until 9:20 am.

We found a local bagel shop in Chelsea, and I mean local. The natives kept yelling at us because we didn’t know the protocol. The cashier was a particularly brutal woman who we nicknamed Helga. She was screaming at us to move to the left, and then she said, “We do this everyday people!”

During breakfast, I introduced Laurel and Shannon to Cha-Cha. Using Cha-Cha, we played a little game finding out how old we were and what we were doing when classic movies like Top Gun and Romancing the Stone were released. Cha-Cha would become an integral part of our trip until we all texted so much we ran out of questions.

We emerged from the Subway in front of The Majestic Theater where Phantom of the Opera is playing. Laurel was traumatized. Who knew she hated The Phantom? Just when you think you know someone. As we were walking, Laurel noticed some girls taking photographs and you could see the wheels start turning. She approached the one of the girls with a professional looking camera and said, “You look like you know what you are doing.” Then we had our own little impromptu photo shoot of the street with some candids of us walking and jumping in the air. They actually turned out to be pretty cute pictures.




We were estactic that we only spent $4 on breakfast especially since we hit Times Square and spent $20 on cheesecake at Roxy’s! Roxy’s had a peanut butter marshmellow brownie on the menu which we tried to order, but following the theme for the day, our waiter yelled at us that it was either peanut butter OR marshmallow even though that’s not how the menu read. Scolded we went with the peanut butter and some blueberry cheesecake.





Next it was Shannon’s broadway pick with The Lion King, and we had awesome dead center mezzanine seats. The poster does not lie when it says visually stunning. My favorites were the giraffes! The scenery and costumes and staging was all very unique. The sad part of all this was due to the bagel carbs and straight sugar we ate for lunch, the crash hit during the play. All three of us found ourselves dozing off a bit in the darkened theater.