Towards the end of last week my husband and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary. It was on Thursday, July 30th to be exact. We decided to go to NYC for “the weekend” to celebrate. My husband made reservations for us at a beautiful 5 star hotel. I will tell you more about that soon. He also bought us tickets to a new Broadway show: Amazing Grace, which I will also tell you about soon.
We stayed at a beautiful 5 star French Hotel called Sofitel . I have to be honest with you I have never heard of this hotel until my husband told me about it. Needless to say I was pretty excited to be staying at a 5 star hotel. This place was beautiful! From the time we entered into it till the time we got into our room, it was beautiful. The people that work there were very nice to us and the food that we had was good too. We only had dessert and breakfast there, but it was still good. Once we got our bag into our room we went to their restaurant, had some dessert and then we walked around Time Square and basically roamed around that area of NYC.
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On the day of our anniversary we started it out by going to a restaurant named Butter. It was restaurant week so we used the special restaurant week menu to order off of. I had their chilled cucumber with melon soup, salmon and a mocha whoopie pie. Oh and grits! I would tell you what my husband had to eat, but I don’t remember. What I can tell you is the food was very good. And I wouldn’t mind going back for more of that soup and for the grits.
When we were done eating we went to the Intrepid air and space museum . We hadn’t been to this place in years. We figured since it was only the two of us, why not. We also took a tour of the submarine that they have and the Concorde. I have to say the Concorde is the smallest plane I have ever been on. Height wise it was kinda perfect for me. The submarine was interesting, but I think I preferred the Concorde. Also I had forgotten how big the Intrepid was until we got on it.
The night of our anniversary we went to see the new Broadway musical Amazing Grace. My husband bought us front row orchestra seats. For me it was very cool to be that close to the stage. It was a wonderful show. By the end of this play I had a lump in my throat because I refused to cry, even though I wanted to. I could hear the sniffling around, but I wouldn’t give in. This new Broadway show was well done and I highly recommend it to anyone. When the play was done we were a bit hungry so we went to Juniors for some onion rings, a chocolate milk shake and a soda.
Through out all of this we used Uber for our transportation from place to place. Uber is an app that lets you easily get car service. One of the drivers was so nice to us, It was raining hard when he dropped us off at the Intrepid and he insisted on giving us his only umbrella. Now that’s service! Each driver we had was nice, friendly and chatted with us through the entire drive.
The next morning, Friday morning, my husband put on the news. I wasn’t paying attention to much till I heard Scotty McCreery singing. Then we found out he was singing at Fox and Friends. My husband told me that was only a couple of blocks from where we were staying. So we went to check it out. That was a VERY nice way to end our stay in NYC!
After that we went back to our Hotel and we had breakfast. It was a simple breakfast, but it was good. It was also my first time ever drinking French Press coffee. So I wasn’t expecting them to bring it out to me the way they did. It was good. I personally prefer my coffee to be stronger, but I think that’s because I’m Italian. All in all it was a great weekend away for our 21st wedding anniversary.
