My New York Va-KATE-tion, Day Four

We began Saturday morning lazily enough...laying around, reading books, checking email, slowing getting up...We didn't have much of a plan, so we weren't in a hurry. Then, my computer ran out of battery. No problem, right? Wrong. We plugged it in, tested every outlet in the room--no charge...such a bummer because we were about to have our best day so far.

We had 2 o'clock theatre tickets, and we decided to have some lunch before. While walking through Times Square, we saw the sign for Sardi's (which we both knew from old Hollywood...I Love Lucy, etc), so we decided to try it out.


It was super delicious! We each ate four (or so) of the mini baguettes they served (such great butter), I had Mahi Mahi and a salad, Katie had a salad and garlic shrimp...it was really, really good.

Our waiter, Franco, wrote down every word of our order in perfect handwriting (which took about 10 minutes). He has worked at Sardi's for 57 years. He was absolutely the cutest. He took our picture and it was pretty clear that he'd never used a digital camera before ("Oh wow, a new thing...just press here?")



After lunch, we walked in a Barack Obama parade (he was not there...just a bunch of people chanting "O-bama, O-Eight, New York State!" and carrying signs--my favorite was "Ba-rack the Vote '08"


We saw a matinee of Legally Blonde. The plot was the same as the movie, and the songs were very funny (to go along with the movie, there were songs like: "Bend and Snap", "Gay or European" and "Omigod, Omigod You Guys")


After the musical, we walked back to the hotel to check if the computer would work (so we could look for movie times and directions to our dinner location). No luck...

We got movie times from the front desk and were just in time to catch Untraceable.
A little scary. A little gory. Very suspenseful.


We were happy to get out of the movie a little early so that we could have a few hours to get it off of our minds. We rode down to Union Station and had dinner at a restaurant called Max Brenner (the tag-line is Chocolate by the Bald Man). Katie heard about it from Rachael Ray...as soon as you walk in, it smells like chocolate. The dessert menu is at least seven pages long...and everything looks delicious.)

It was, seriously, one of the best restaurants I have ever been to. I had chicken and potatoes. Katie had a chicken crepe. Then we shared some tasty sampler platter of a few things: a peanut butter/chocolate thing (not good), pop rocks in chocolate (also not good), chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream (good, but why waste your time?), and a very fun "roast your own marshmallows" fondue table set. We loved it.


On the way home, we saw Jackie from Roseanne (Laurie Metcalf)...


An amazing day full of firsts...I'm making a list of all of the places that I need to bring my dad back to!