Travel

[dancerjodi]

Brian and I are going to NYC in April and want to see a show - should we see Wicked or Young Frankenstein the Musical? Over the top/popular traditional Broadway or Mel Brooks comedy?

We're staying at The New Yorker again and going down on the Wednesday before NYC Comicon so that we can enjoy the city. I am going to the Museum of Natural History this time! :)

As for other travel, we're hoping to do something in the fall in the US where we haven't gone before. Any October locations we should check out? We've been to NOLA (I was trying to think of a spooky place). We thought perhaps Texas and there's a bat fair in Austin but its earlier than we wanted to go away (Labor Day weekend). Anything cool going on with not too crazy weather?

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[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

I got Wicked for Christmas. The novel, that is. I've been meaning to read it for a while, and I've never seen the show, but I'd heard so much about it that it has to be pretty amazing. I haven't seen Young Frankenstein either, so my opinion's useless. :)

When you mention bats, I always think about Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. My family went there when I was a kid. The caverns are very cool, and at dusk people gather at the mouth of the caverns and watch thousands of bats fly off into the night sky.

[lurfmonkey.livejournal.com]

At the end of September, we're taking a road trip to Virginia. We reserved a timeshare in McGaheysville, VA, from 9/26 to 10/3. It's a one bedroom that sleeps 4. It's a little over 2 hours from Washington, DC, in the Shenandoah Valley. We'd likely stop in places on the way down and up. Possibilities would be NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and DC (we'll definitely do DC because we love the zoo). We only paid $160 for the entire week (and didn't have to trade our week for it), so even if we didn't stay the whole time, it'd be worth it. The resort itself is fairly remote, but it's big with tons of activities. You can find info here:

http://www.massresort.com/

So if you're interested in visiting VA and doing a road trip to other cities as well, let us know. We'd just share the cost of any hotels we stayed at on the way down or back.

[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

So noted!

[dawntreader]

seconded! hehehe. however... i couldn't finish the book. i knew it wasn't supposed to be like the musical, and i wasn't expecting it to be. but i found it to be a rather painfully slow read.

i want to know how a person reads a book suddenly stops and thinks, "you know, if i changed nearly everything about this book including major plot points and several principle characters, write some amazingly catchy songs to go with it, i could have a blockbuster musical on my hands!!" it makes no sense!

but i loved the musical.