This morning I had to head into the NYC office of my company for a meeting. So I got up a bit earlier and made my way down to Rockefeller center. It took me a bit to find exactly which building I was supposed to be in I quickly found my meeting.

After my meeting I was took advantage of my location and went to the Nintendo store. There were a ton of people checking out the huge, in-store demo for the new Zelda game, Breath of the Wild, on the Switch but I wasn’t there for that. I wanted to get a new 3DS game. I also decided to pick up some new coffee mugs. We used to have 2 Nintendo mugs but one of them went missing. I got a Zelda and a Mario mug. Then I headed back to get Maura.

Once Maura and I were ready to leave the hotel it was time to get something to eat. We decided to try Jacob’s pickles again. This time we had much better luck since it was a school day. The food was awesome and they cooked Maura’s bacon right.

Without any real plan for the rest of the afternoon we decided to check out Central Park.

In particular we wanted to see Belveder castle. It wasn’t as big as I was expecting but it offered some great views and I can people wanting to use it for Summer events.

We took a selfie or three.

We then made our way to see the Alice in Wonderland statue and passed through this cool underpass where there was a musician.

It’s a very large statue and people let their kids climb all over it.

After walking around for a bit we decided to go warm up and grabbed a beer. I located a place with some decent reviews and so we made our way to The Pony Bar. It was a good place but we wanted to change venues to be closer to our show after a bit.

We located an Irish pub near the City Center called Draught 55. They were pretty packed because of it being happy hour and the service seemed to not take notice of new people at the bar. We only had a beer and an appetizer then decided to get out.

Finally it was time for our show.

We got to the City center, found our seats and settled in for an awesome show. Most of the comedians killed it. Even Dave Attell got a laugh out of me. One of the cast members from Saturday Night Live was there and thought it was a good time to just wing it. Bill Burr killed it.

After show we had a bad moment involving trying to get an Uber. It thought we were on the other block and so we had to hustle around the corner to try to find it. Then I got a notification that it was canceled and their system wouldn’t let me order a new one. Maura had to order one and it took about 20 minutes.

We headed back towards our hotel and wanted to get something to eat. In particular we were looking for a slice of pizza. A quick Google search had us looking for Freddie & Pepper’s. It seemed to have great reviews but when we checked it out the pizza looked dried out and they were only selling old slices. We moved on.

While walking up Amsterdam avenue we came across the always good Insomnia Cookies. While not dinner food we grabbed a couple of cookies for later.

Feeling like we’re running out of options and tired of looking we stumbled upon The Meatball Shop. They were open and still serving food that was made then so we grabbed a couple of seats, a few beers and had some dinner. We headed to the hotel to watch some TV and eat our cookies and call it a night. The next day we had to drive back to Pittsburgh.