Winning the lottery (of Avenue Q)

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After all the hassles of Saturday (see previous post), Sunday has turned out to be a hell of a lot better.

We visited the Natural History Museum which has got an exhibition on called "Cosmic Collisions". You get shuffled into a theatre where the whole roof is the screen. Robert Redford narrated a storey about how the moon was formed after a meteor hit the earth and the fragments that where displaced merged together to form the moon. Apparently it only look 1 month. They also had a cool exhibition on about marine animals which I had some fun photographing.

We also had a wonder down through times square and found the avenue Q theatre. Apparently 30 minutes before each show they sell 12 front row tickets for $20 each (they are normally $110). They do this by lottery, but it seems that on a Sunday evening, not that many people are interested in hanging around on Broadway for 30 minutes whilst they hold the draw. There must have only been 7 people waiting. Anyway we got 2 tickets and felt very smug walking down to the middle of the front row.

If you haven't heard of it Avenue Q is a bit like a musical adult Sesame Street, with songs like "Everyone's a little bit racist", "The internet is for porn" and "what do you do with a BA in English?" you get the point.

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Photos

Space Centre @ The Natural History Museum
The entrance into the UFO theatre thigy

Times Square
I've got a love hate thing with Times Square. It looks amazing, but too many tourists (and people selling things to tourists)

Times Square
Another HDR

Comments

[Pam]

No naked cowboy...!!
is he on holiday??

[DougRattray]

No naked cowboy I'm afraid.
I didn't know what you where talking about until I looked him up on Wikipedia.