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What a weekend! Amy was visiting me for several days and we had a great time together.
Let me just tell you the details for Saturday.

After a long jog (2 hours) to the Greenwhich beach we were ready for some more relaxing activities and headed into the city. As you might know the thing to do in the city is to go watch a musical. So we spontaneously decided to check out the ticket booth at time square if we could get tickets for an interesting afternoon show. To our surprise they still had tickets for Marry Poppins available which was on the top of our musical list.

Since we had some time left until the musical started we decided to visit the Guggenheim museum (Thanks @ UBS for the free entry). Most people know about me that I am not a very artsy guy, but I appreciate good craftsmanship which you certainly will find in most museums. That said, I was only enjoying a small part of the exhibition. Besides some wonderful art pieces, the Guggenheim was also showing many provoking pieces of art where I had a hard time to find the artistic value.

Then it was time for the musical. We really enjoyed the musical and got reminded of many memories we had from the movie. But I have to say I remembered the overall story a little different. It seems like I/we have to go back and watch the movie again.
We really enjoyed all the little “magic” things they did on stage. Overall, we liked the musical and would recommend it to everyone who knows and likes Mary Poppins.

After that we walked through the city to the Frying Pan. This is a bar on several barges at Pier 66 in NYC and is the place to be. We were lucky to get a table on the top deck on the very front, where we enjoyed a beer to close our excursion to the city.

After such a wonderful day, we knew there was only one word to describe this blog entry:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Pictures from this weekend

I just came back from the Beach Boys concert. Or better said what is left of them
During summer they have a concert series right outside my apartment building. It’s called Alive@Five. Since this was the last concert for this year, I figured I have to attend… After waiting for 20 minutes at the entry and paying $10.- I was allowed in to a really crowded festival area.
I had a fun time listening to the Beach Boys, since they have so many well known hits. In general the atmosphere was quite good, and I might have to go to more concerts next year.