New York: Day 2

After surviving the first night in the city that never sleeps, the four of us were refreshed and ready for the second day.

We all decided that we were going to see a play that day but we did not know exactly what play we would see. We knew of a very well known off site ticket booth where anyone could buy tickets to a play at a discount (as long it is on the same day).

Since none of us really knew what we wanted to see, we just chose a play based on its title. And the play that was chosen was called "Don't Leave It All To Your Children". The title alone brought many different types of scenarios to my mind, like is it going to be a comedy, drama, or some sort of weird illegal thing that I cant really go into detail about.

After we bought the tickets, at half price if I may add, we had a bunch of time to kill which we meant it was Central Park time.

I knew Central Park was a big place, but I never knew how big it actually was. There was tons of things to do there. People were getting in line to go to some puppet play, others were singing or performing with some band, hell some people were just dancing and skating around for some money.

We walked around Central Park what seemed to be like forever. There were a couple of mini parks within Central Park and each seemed to be the exact same. Kids were playing Frisbee golf, people reading, sleeping, or even just getting down to their tightie whities and just trying to get a tan. After all of our time in Central Park, it was time to go see the play.

We knew that the play was off Broadway but once we arrived to the theatre, I thought that Cody and Paul were playing some sort of joke on me. We traveled to a place called "The Actor's Temple". Obviously, it was a Jewish synagogue that was used as a place of worship and a theatre for plays.

As we looked around at the crowd, we notice one detail that would have been great if it was brought to our attention before we bought the tickets. The show was made directly for the "Baby Boomer" generation. The age gap between us and the next youngest person had to be anywhere between 40 to 50 years at least.

The performance itself was about what these old timer remember, such as the Ed Sullivan Show, skates that require a key, trying to bribe your grandkids, and why funeral costs are so much. It seemed to be more of a variety show than a play with an actual plot. Even though we did not understand all of the jokes, we thought the play was hilarious mainly because of the comments that the 2 elderly Jewish couples were making in front of us. I honestly think that old people have to be either the least funny or the most funny people anyone could be around.

The show was a well spent hour and a half mainly because we laughed our asses off, but also because we got to sit down and rest for an extended amount of time in the air conditioning.

After the play, we decided to hit up a couple of bars before dinner. For some reason, we all felt that mainly going to the local bars and then hitting the popular spots was the thing to do. It did work out for the best because we got quick service and each bar had a different beer that some of us had never tried before.

After couple of hours of visiting different bars and walking around in the mainly neighborhoods that New York had to offer us, it was finally dinner time. And all of us were waiting for this particular meal.

The four of us were pumped up to go out this night because of two reasons. This was going to be the only meal where we were willing to pay the most for and also it included ninjas. Yes, you read the last statement correct, there were going to be an abundance of ninjas there.

The place we chose to eat was a place simply called Ninja. It was obviously a ninja themed restaurant with food served by employees in ninja gear (some even had swords which made it even better).

The place was actually very well hidden, it was just a door that led to a small room with the hostess. The hostess would then call to someone saying how many people were in the group and she then asked you to go into an elevator that would take you down to the actual restaurant area.

The cool thing about the elevator was that once the doors shut, the lights dimmed down to almost nothing and then, once you reached the bottom floor, the doors opened and a ninja jumped out of nowhere and scared us. Lets be honest, when I mean the ninja scared us, i am actually saying that the ninja scared the hell out me and only me.

It was a unique experience to eat there. The ninja guide said that we had two options to get to our table. We could go the safe way and go right to our table or we could go the dangerous way. We went the dangerous route all the way.

We had to cross labyrinth in the dark with only a couple of lanterns to help guide us. Once we reached the end, another damn ninja came out and scared the hell out of me again. I was starting to think that this particular ninja had something against me.

We then headed to our table which was basically our own private room that we had to go to by crossing over a bridge. The food was really good and if you ordered anything off of the "Ninja" menu, they would bring out that particular dish with a particular kind of show. The restaurant seemed like Ninja version of Medieval Times but on a smaller more private scale.

And as they were doing the show, another damn ninja scared the hell out me. At this point I wish i had some ninja stars to throw and get my revenge somehow. After they did their food presentation, they left us alone so we could enjoy our food in peace without any ninja distractions.

The rest of the night was once again just bar hopping from neighborhood to neighborhood and just try different beverages. I believe this night we went to 4 different bars and hung with people from Belgium and Australia. Follow the link here for the map of all the places that we went to that day.

Day 3: Coming Soon